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NZARE Annual Conference 2016

THE POLITICS OF LEARNING
Victoria University of Wellington
20-23 November 2016

Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika, Victoria University of Wellington is the host for this year’s NZARE conference. We warmly welcome academic colleagues, researchers, students, and educators to join us in November for three days of stimulating, interesting, challenging, and enriching presentations, discussions and collaborative reflection.  The conference whakatauki calls upon us to consider ways in which we draw upon both traditional and contemporary knowledge in order to enrich and support the growth and integrity of our research, ourselves, and the learners we serve. 

We are excited to present a range of speakers who will provoke our thinking and our practice in accordance with the conference theme, ‘the politics of learning’. 

Jenny Ritchie, Conference Convenor
Heleen Visser, NZARE President

Keynote Speakers

Prof Gert Biesta, Univeristy of Brunel, London, UK
Dame Tariana Turia
Dr Cherryl Smith,
Prof Kabini Sanga, VUW

Prof Helen May (Herbison Lecture)

GO TO PROGRAMME PAGE FOR DETAILS

Important Dates

Call for papers (see below) – all submissions must be received by 1 August

Registration and social programme will be available 11 JulyNo registrations can be taken before July.

Accommodation will be available at the halls of residence at $69/person/day – more detail in July.

Go to our dedicated NZARE 2016 Conference Portal HERE

 Call for abstracts

The conference organising committee invites you to participate in the 2016 NZARE Conference by presenting your research. We are seeking abstracts for consideration from a range of educational research including those with a focus on the conference theme: The Politics of Learning and proposals aligned with a focus area of a Special Interest Group (SIG).

Abstract submission guidelines

Authors may submit an abstract for presentation in one of the following formats:

  • Individual presentation
  • Symposium presentation (3 – 4 presentations and a discussant)
  • Table discussion
  • Poster presentation (option to include augmented reality – ie link to further info via an app)

FOR DETAILS AND TO UPLOAD YOUR ABSTRACT GO TO CALL FOR PAPERS