Joanna Higgins

Attuning to Jazz in the Process of Becoming a “Making Academic”

Joanna Higgins

Attuning to jazz can generate new theoretical insights on contemplative practices that enhance wellbeing and self-care. Sociological theoretical constructs illuminate emotional and social connections fundamental to the creative pursuit of making music with others. My recent foray into a focused study of …

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Experimenting with Poeticizing to Open a Shared Space for Emotion and Mathematics in Preservice Teacher Education

Linda Bonne, Raewyn Eden, Joanna Higgins

Poetry and mathematics are not typically encountered together. In this paper, we describe our experience of taking an arts-based approach to bringing together mathematics and poetry by poeticizing the qualitative survey responses of preservice teachers who were learning to teach mathematics in …

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Responding to negative emotion in a pre-service mathematics classroom

Joanna Higgins, Linda Bonne, Raewyn Eden

Abstract Emotions associated with prior mathematics learning experiences endure for some pre-service teachers, leaching into their own teaching of mathematics. Taking a sociology of emotions framing, the naturalistic study used event-oriented social inquiry and employed multiple methods (classroom transcripts, interviews, email conversations …

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Exploring the shift to an improvement-oriented approach to external evaluation in Aotearoa New Zealand

Ro Parsons, Joanna Higgins

External evaluation in Aotearoa New Zealand is an important accountability mechanism in education. In 2019 the Tomorrow’s Schools Independent Taskforce recommended that the Education Review Office (ERO) develop and implement an improvement-oriented approach to external evaluation in schools. This approach requires fundamental …

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Editorial Wood Higgins Complex Educaton Policy for Complex Times August 2023.pdf

Bronwyn Wood, Joanna Higgins

Any glance at education in New Zealand right now reveals a multitude of issues. While it is hard to say exactly why these problems have emerged to such an extent right now, it is clear that education policy plays a crucial role …

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Complex Education Policy for Complex Times?

Bronwyn Wood, Joanna Higgins

Any glance at education in New Zealand right now reveals a multitude of issues. In the schooling sector the declining rates of literacy and numeracy have been in the news, following a 2020 UNICEF report which found that only 64.6% of Aotearoa …

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Editorial Introduction

Ro Parsons, Joanna Higgins

The contributions to this Special Issue identify significant challenges for the education system in addressing the trajectory of decline in education performance and achieving equity and excellence in education outcomes. Although the articles focus on a range of education contexts, the themes …

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Generating the place of self-compassion in higher education

Narelle Lemon, Joanna Higgins

The pandemic has revealed the need to position compassion and (self-)care at the heart of what we do as educators, leaders, and researchers in higher education. As research collaborators, two women working in academia, one located in Australia and the other in …

Education policy and practice in challenging times

Sue Cherrington, Joanna Higgins, Grant Zouch

The education agenda of the current Labour Government is one of the boldest and most far-reaching since the inception of Tomorrow’s Schools in the late 1980s. Following a period of relatively limited – albeit often highly contentious (for example, National Standards and …

The buddy bench and beyond: Exploring complexity-informed approaches to wellbeing education

Suskya Goodall, Philippa Nicoll Antipas, Joanna Higgins, Rachel Cann

Enhancing wellbeing in educational settings is a challenging endeavour as wellbeing education is inherently complex. This interdisciplinary conceptual paper aims to bridge the gap between psychological interventions and educational contexts by adopting a complexity lens to consider the puzzle of wellbeing in …

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Generating Perspectives of Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand

Tabitha McKenzie, Joanna Higgins, Suskya Goodall, Grant Zouch

Nestled within the South Pacific Ocean, Aotearoa New Zealand is a bicultural nation shaped through a partnership between indigenous Māori and non-Māori peoples. Framed by a Māori worldview, we discuss perspectives of holistic wellbeing as characterized by models and frameworks. A case …