Keynote Address for ANZEA Conference, July 2019, Waipuna Lodge, Auckland.
Frances Valintine is a “Futurist” thought-leader in emerging and disruptive technologies and has 20 years’ experience across business, technology, and education. In 2013, Frances founded The Mind Lab, a unique collaboration between a public education provider and a specialist education ...

Why the reference to “a dangerous time” in the article title? I believe that we now live and do evaluation research in a period when governance in advanced democratic societies is unusually difficult. We face deep and far-reaching challenges—climate change, income inequality, disruptive technologies, globalised markets, and so forth—for which ...

Fellows’ Strand plenary
Evaluation for the Anthropocene: Shaping a sustainability-ready evaluation field
2018 Canadian Evaluation Society Conference

Fellows’ Strand plenary
Evaluation for the Anthropocene: Shaping a sustainability-ready evaluation field
2018 Canadian Evaluation Society Conference

Fellows’ Strand plenary
Evaluation for the Anthropocene: Shaping a sustainability-ready evaluation field
2018 Canadian Evaluation Society Conference

Keynote Address for ANZEA Conference, July 2018, Wellington

This article explores early childhood teachers’ and leaders’ early responses to the release of the revised early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 2017), with a particular focus on teaching and assessment of literacy. The study involved a convergent mixed-method design. Data were collected via a cross-sectional survey of ...

Despite implementation of significant legislation and policy initiatives related to human rights and inclusive practices, children with disabilities can still experience discrimination and exclusion in multiple areas of their lives, including in early childhood education (ECE). Evidence of a gap between policies about inclusion and the reality of exclusionary practices ...

Teaching is a highly complex and political endeavour, and as teachers we need to be courageous as we support children to make sense of the increasingly complex and diverse societies that we live in. My doctoral research highlighted a number of issues related to teachers and curriculum. Te Whāriki, the ...