A Case Study: The Dilemmas of Biculturalism in Education Policy and Visual Arts Education Practice in Aotearoa-New Zealand

2006 ◽  
pp. 479-494
Author(s):  
Jill Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

scholarly journals Visual Arts Education for Young Children In Aotearoa New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Terreni
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Early Childhood Curriculum ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Visual art education plays a significant role in fostering </span><span>young children’s learning, thinking, and communicating. </span><span>In New Zealand, approaches to early childhood visual </span><span>art education have developed in response to international educational theories and trends, which, over the years, have often resulted in changes to pedagogy and practice in this domain. Currently, the national early childhood curriculum Te </span><span>Whāriki includes references to visual art education in many </span><span>of its learning strands. Whilst the curriculum has a strong sociocultural orientation to learning and teaching, approaches to early childhood visual art education are diverse. A brief historical overview of early childhood visual arts education in </span><span>New Zealand is presented and, to conclude, three examples of </span><span>current, innovative art projects are discussed. </span></p></div></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Biculturalism and Multiculturalism: Competing Tensions in Visual Arts Education in Aotearoa-New Zealand

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Elizabeth Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art Teachers ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Multicultural Art Education ◽  
Postcolonial History

New Zealand has become an increasingly multicultural society since the 1990s. But multicultural education is complicated in this nation by its position on biculturalism, a commitment founded in its postcolonial history. The finding of an investigation in secondary schools, which showed that national and visual arts curricula emphasize biculturalism over multiculturalism, was reflected in art teachers’ pedagogies. In this paper I discuss how multicultural art education could be strengthened within the existing bicultural framework. Bridging the gap between policies and practices would require art teachers to review their practices and implement strategies which take into account the cultural diversity of students to enhance understandings of their own and other multicultural societies.

scholarly journals Student Teachers Building a Sustainable Future Through Constructing Equality in Visual Arts Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Leena Knif ◽  
Seija Kairavuori
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Functional Space ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
The University

AbstractThis article presents a discussion about primary school visual arts education from the point of view of social sustainability and in the context of teacher education in Finland. The study focuses on the student teachers’ understanding and pedagogic thinking of the equality construction in visual arts. In this case study the research data comprises the learning portfolios of student teachers (N=25) from the visual arts teaching course at the University of Helsinki in which they designed and carried out pedagogical workshops of visual arts to promote equality. The data were examined with the methods of qualitative content analysis. In this context, the student teachers found engaging elements in the aims and practices of visual arts to be the way to enhance equality. Visual arts education was found to offer a functional space for enhancing the agency, social skills and values needed in a sustainable future.

scholarly journals Another elderly lady to be knocked down: Heritage discourse and the protest to save the Missions to Seamen building, 1986

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alexander Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
City Council ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Considerable Difficulty ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heritage Discourse

<p>Through a specific historical case study, Another Elderly Lady to be Knocked Down applies discourse theory and the Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) to the context of urban built heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand. Previously, only limited work had been done in this area. By examining an underexplored event this dissertation fills two gaps in present literature: the history of the event itself and identification of the heritage discourses in the country at the time. Examination of these discourses in context also allows conclusions about the use of the AHD in similar studies to be critically examined.  In 1986 the Missions to Seamen building in Wellington, New Zealand, was threatened with demolition by its government owners. In a remarkable display of popular sentiment, individuals, organisations, the Wellington City Council (WCC) and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) worked together to oppose this unpopular decision. This protest was a seminal event in the history of heritage in New Zealand.  This study relies upon documentary sources, especially the archival records of the Historic Places Trust and the State Services Commission, who owned the building, to provide the history of this watershed moment in New Zealand’s preservation movement. The prevalent attitudes of different groups in Wellington are examined through the letters of protest they wrote at the time. When analysed in context, these discourses reveal the ways in which heritage was articulated and constructed.  The course of this dissertation has revealed the difficulty of identifying an AHD in this context. The level of collaboration between ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ heritage perspectives, and the extent to which they shaped each other’s language, creates considerable difficulty in distinguishing between discreet discourses. To better explore the ways that heritage meaning is constructed and articulated, heritage must be recognised as a complex dynamic process.</p>

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