This article considers the critical theory of the Frankfurt School in the context of
decolonisation and asks whether it can have continuing relevance given its foundations in …

We recently attended a conference at which a non-Māori presenter, drawing on a particular
metaphor already established by Māori writers, related Māori natural world features to a …

Education about living in society and in the world is a vital task of schools. Yet such civic
education is not always critically examined, and few among us have been encouraged to …

Talanoa (Moana-centred orality) is a widely used Indigenous Pacific discursive approach
within research contexts across the diaspora. In a globalised and technologically enhanced …

This editorial starts from the understanding that identity formation is one of the primary
purposes of formal education, especially schooling, and that processes of national identity …

This article revisits the use of postmodernist theory in qualitative research in education and
related fields, where such ideas remain consigned to the “fringe”—or worse. What are the …

This book provides a distinctive perspective on some of the ways in which performativity, as
an expression of neoliberal and managerialist thinking,'works' in specific policy contexts. It …

This chapter explores writing as a useful yet under-utilised method for Indigenous research
in education and related fields. To focus on writing counters the tendency to equate …

Policies increasingly reinforce the self-determination of Indigenous peoples, but issues
remain around group definitions. Colonization has led to (de) identification with Māori (New …

This article results from a collaborative investigation into Antipodean theory in education by
members of the Editors' Collective (www. editorscollective. org. nz). The Prologue contains a …