Course information | 880 Contextualising Education (CHC) S1 2026

Henderson Campus

3 Smythe Road
Private Bag 93104
Henderson
Auckland 0650
New Zealand

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Christchurch Campus

70 Condell Avenue
Papanui
Christchurch 8053
New Zealand

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Distance Learning

3 Smythe Road, Henderson
Private Bag 93104
Henderson
Auckland 0650
New Zealand

P +64 9 836 7836 or 0800 999 777
E distancelearning@laidlaw.ac.nz

Week 2: 23 Feb - 1 Mar

Lecture 1 PPT

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Is everyone really equal?

Reading Note Taking Form

Recommended Reading: Just Discipleship

Recommended Reading: Becoming a High Expectation Teacher

The Bible Project - Justice

The Story of Saint Bridget

Roshan Allpress on the Clapham Sect

Liberation Theology explained

Week 3: 2 Mar - 8 Mar

Lecture 2 PPT

Amy Paige-Whiting PPT

Common words found in education documents

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Exclusion &amp; Embrace

Recommended Reading: Social Justice and Welfare

Recommend Reading: Drinking from the Same Well

Recommend Reading: Cruciformity: Paul's Narrative Spirituality of the Cross

Recommended Reading: The Courage to Teach

Faith, Hope and Love through a theological educational lens

Wink's reflection cycle - use to help reflect on assignment topics

Assignment 1 unpacked

Week 4: 9 Mar - 15 Mar Reflective Essay DUE (14/03)

Lecture 3 PPT

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: The Professional Practice of Teaching in New Zealand

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Coloring in the White Spaces.

Reflective essay (30% LO:1,2,4)

Week 5: 16 Mar - 22 Mar

Lecture 4 PPT

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Pedagogy of the oppressed

New words, new friends online version. Use as you read Pedagogy of the Oppressed Ch2

Recommended Reading: The Cultural Production of Classroom Practice

Recommended watch: Dr Ann Milne: Coloring in the White Spaces

Collaborative Project Scaffolding

Week 6: 23 Mar - 29 Mar

Lecture 5 PPT

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Critical Pedagogy

Action Plan for Pacific Learners Link to webpage

Common Practice Model Article

Developing a common practice model for literacy and communication and maths

How politics can change the landscape and emphasis in our education sector

NELPS-2020

Week 7: 30 Mar - 5 Apr Collaborative Project DUE (2/04)

Lecture 6 PPT

Compulsory reading BEFORE class: A Birds Eye View Presentation of Critical Pedagogy

Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020-2030

Action Plan for Pacific Education Refreshed (2023-2030)

Action Plan for Pacific Education (Community Engagement)

Tātaiako

Tapasā

Tapasā: Cultural Competencies Framework for Pacific learners

How to Create an Inclusive Classroom - Diversity and Inclusion in Education

22 Picture Books that have Maori and Pasifika Representation

Unit Plan Critique (Exemplar)

Unit Plan (Can use for Unit Plan Critique)

Assignment 2 Collaborative Project Written

Collaborative project (45% LO:1,2,4)

Week 10: 20 Apr - 26 Apr

Lecture 7 PPT

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: A collaborative self-study into the development of critical-literacy practices—a pilot study

Learning Design

Learning Design Diagram

Resource for UP Assignment. Questions posed. Sandretto - Planning for Critical Literacy

Week 16: 1 Jun - 7 Jun

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Caring for classroom relationality in Pasifika education: A space-based understanding.

Recommended Reading: Hargraves, V. (n.d.). Four strategies to effectively support Pasifika students. The Education Hub. https://theeducationhub.org.nz/four-strategies-to-effectively-support-pasifika-students/

Recommended Reading: Understanding Pacific Learners. Abbiss, J. Samu, T.W. &amp; Thrupp, M. (Ed.). (2019). The professional practice of teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand (7th ed.). Cengage

Week 17: 8 Jun - 14 Jun Unit Plan Critique DUE (13/06)

Compulsory Read: BEFORE class: Becoming Tangata Tiriti Chapter 4

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Teaching to the North East

Tātaiako document found on Teaching Council website

Recommended Reading: What we heard - Unteach Racism Synthesised Insights Report

Unteach Racism a Literature Scan by Teaching Council

Unit plan critique (25% LO: 2,3)

te reo Māori

24 Hui-tanguru

3 Māehe (March)

10 Māehe

17 Māehe

Compulsory Reading BEFORE class: Exclusion & Embrace

Recommended Reading: Understanding Pacific Learners. Abbiss, J. Samu, T.W. & Thrupp, M. (Ed.). (2019). The professional practice of teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand (7th ed.). Cengage

24 Māehe & 31 Māehe & 21 Paengawhāwhā

Enari, D., & Fa'aea, A. M. (2020). E tumau le fa’avae ae fesuia’i faiga: Pasifika resilience during COVID. Oceania, 90(Suppl. 1), 75–80. DOI:10.1002/ocea.5269

Enari, D., & Matapo, J. (2021). Negotiating the relational va in the university: A transnational Pasifika standpoint during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Global Indigenity, 5(1), 1-19.

Fa'avae, D. (2018). Negotiating the va: The self in relation to others and navigating the multiple spaces as a New Zealand-raised Tongan male. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnography (pp. 56-68). Routledge.

Matapo, J., & Allen, J., M. (2021). Traversing Pacific identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Blood, ink, lives. In E. Fitzpatrick, & K. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Poetry, method and education research (pp. 207-220). Routledge

Si'ilata, R. (2018). Raranga Wha: Mana whenua, mana moana and mixedness in a Māori/Fijian/Samoan/Pākehā whānau. In Z. L. Rocha, & M. Webber, Mana tangatarua (pp 97-116). Routledge.

Tongati'o, L. P. (2020). Ko e Fanāfotu ki he Ako Leleí: Transforming education, valuing identity, language and culture. In S. Johansson-Fua, M. 'Otunuku, & R. Toumu'a, It takes an island and an ocean (pp. 44-62). University of the South Pacific.