254710 Ruia taitea: Transforming Education

  As Freire (1974) describes there are three levels of consciousness. The first being a magical consciousness where we accept our lives as we see it in our immediate vicinity and are not aware of the wider socio-economic complications or contradictions. I can relate this to my own personal story as I grew up in an affluent area of Auckland, attended good schools, went on domestic and international holidays and watched those around me do the same. Adults in the home went to work at well paid jobs, we lived in a large house with bedrooms for everyone and a large outdoor space with a swimming pool. This was what I saw day in and day out and this is what I believed to be the “norm” for everyone. Through my magical consciousness I had constructed a view of not only my world but the world beyond as being the same. This stage of magical consciousness stayed with me for a very long time, all the way through university until I took my first teaching job in a fairly remote part of Northern H...

  Narrative identity as described by McAdams (2011), is the internal sense of self that makes sense of your life, justifies who you are and where you might be going. It is shaped by the encounters and events throughout your life and can change over time dependent on those. Changes in narrative identity occur naturally through developmental phases as we age or through specific events. Early drafts of personal identity are more mythical or can be grandiose but get grounded in reality as people reach adulthood. During later life narrative identity takes on a softer glow as life stories become more general with less emphasis on specific events (McAdams, 2011) Negative experiences can sometimes lead to a redemptive change of narrative where people go through a process of altering their own narrative identity after a period of atonement or recovery. While narrative identity is an internal discourse it can also be affected by social elements leading to a performance of narrative identity ...

  Ko wai ahau? Kia ora koutou Ko Kahurānaki te maunga whakamarumaru i a au Ko Ngaruroro te awa whakaora i a au Ko Ngāti Kahungunu te mana whenua Ka mihi ahau ki a rātau Nō Heretaunga ahau Ko Alistair rāua ko Fiona Bowes aku mātua Ko Shaan Corbett taku hoa rangatira Ko Parker, Ko Sophie rātau ko Cooper ā māua tamariki Ko Jennie Corbett taku ingoa Nō reira, tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa Kia ora everyone, I live in Te Matau-a-Māui (Hawkes Bay) and after being born here I moved to Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland) for all of my primary and secondary schooling. After finishing high school I trained as a teacher at Massey in the Manawatū and taught in primary schools here in Hawkes Bay with a few years teaching in London, UK while on my big O.E. My husband and I have three children who are 18, 16 and 11. Our 18 and 16 year old daughters are both completing their NCEA Level 2 this year – one at a local high school and one through Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu. Our 11 year old son attends ...