TEACHING & TEACHER EDUCATION
The Teaching and Teacher Education SIG was established at the AGM on the 21st November 2023.
The SIG is open to suggestions for collaborative research, activities, or events that will further the aims of the group.
The Teaching and Teacher Education Special Interest Group provides a forum for NZARE members who are interested in the theory and practice of teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand, from initial qualification through the years to full registration and beyond. The purpose of the SIG is to facilitate collegiality and collaboration that will develop and strengthen teaching and teacher education through research and practice. Specifically, the purpose of the SIG is to:
Create a forum for an active network of practitioners, researchers, students, peak body advocates and policymakers to have a positive influence on initial teacher education and the ongoing development of teachers;
Support high quality educational research in the area of teaching and teacher education;
To organise activities and education that support the ongoing development of high quality initial teacher education and ongoing professional learning about teaching; and
Contribute to the development of evidence-based, theoretically sound policy and practice in the area of teaching and teacher education.
2026 Co-Convenors
Lindsay Fish
Having taught languages and literacies in a range of secondary school contexts since 2000, it was the persistent questions about her role as a Pākehā teacher in Māori contexts that drove Lindsay back to university for postgraduate study. Following the completion of her doctoral work that focused on the cultural practices of Pākehā teachers, Lindsay began teaching at BTI in 2021. She works on the Secondary Teaching programme and leads the Master of Professional Practice and Leadership. Her teaching experience and research supports her work with pre-service and in-service teachers. Her research interests include teachers’ understanding of pedagogy and practice arising from their own cultural context, learning communities and how they are theorised, literacy education and community tutoring.
l.fish@bti.ac.nz
Andrew Gibbons
Andrew is Professor and Director of Research at Te Kura Mātauranga, te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau. The study of teaching is at the heart of Andrew’s work and draws upon his experiences as an early childhood teacher, social worker, journalist and musician. Andrew’s teaching and research is dedicated to growing teacher education programmes that break out of disciplinary siloes and generate powerful connections between teachers and the research community. Andrew's research applies the philosophy and politics of education to research of teacher education, early childhood education, and wider questions concerning education and society. He has published widely on teacher education across all educational sectors, recognising and developing productive intersections between teaching and learning in early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary teaching contexts. Andrew is an advocate for the critical and philosophical application of science fiction in educational research. He is co-editor of Childhood, Science and Pedagogy: Childhood Ex Machina, and co-author of the Encyclopaedia of Intergalactic Pedagogy.
Philippa Nicoll Antipas
Philippa is a lecturer in Teacher Education and the Programme Director for the Masters of Teaching and Learning (Primary), Campus-based (International Student) cohort in Te Whānau o Ako Pai I School of Education at Te Herenga Waka. As a former secondary school English teacher and facilitator of teacher professional learning and development, Philippa is perennially interested in what makes a difference to teacher practice and why. Philippa’s doctoral work was co-awarded the NZARE Sutton-Smith Doctoral Award in 2024. Philippa is passionate about creative, context-rich, and (post)qualitative research that questions the status quo to find ways of knowing, doing, and being differently.
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