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Dr Andrea Delaune

Contact

Department: School of Teacher Education

Email: andrea.delaune@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690125

Office: Rehua 511

Language: English

Education is diminished by ‘predictable outcomes’. In exploring the complexities of education, we are opened to innumerable possibilities.
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Fields of Research

  • Morality, Ethics, and Education
  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi Informed Practices
  • Sustainable Development
  • Intentionality and Intentional Teaching
  • Early childhood education
  • Infant and Toddler specialised pedagogies
  • Anti-Racism Commitment
  • Early Career Researcher experiences
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Tertiary Education
  • Decolonising education

Researcher Summary

My research is dedicated to raising social justice awareness, with a specific focus upon transformative change and pedagogical possibilities in a wide range of disciplines and research areas. I actively seek to resist approaches to education that limit our appreciation of the complexities of learning and teaching, with a view to disrupting binary and didactic enactments  and promoting a pedagogy of attention.

I am currently involved in projects on sustainability, anti-racism commitment, philosophy of education, early childhood education, teacher advocacy, and speculative thinking for educational change. I have research experience focussing upon poststructural analysis of gifted education, morality and ethics education, and conceptualisations of wellbeing. I also have extensive pedagogical experience as an infant and toddler specialist teacher, and in early childhood educational leadership and management.

I am an active and contributing member of the Pedagogies of Possibility group, and seek research investigations that ask questions such as ‘what could be’ and ‘what if’ in order to develop a more socially just world.

I am interested in doctoral candidates that can see their work aligning with my research interests, and I welcome research proposals that may prompt or provoke new thinking about education as a relational undertaking that can promote societal change.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Education: Cultural Studies; Early Childhood; Education for Sustainability; Education Theory; Educational Policy Studies; Gifted and Talented Education; Inclusive Education; Māori Education; Pedagogy; Philosophy of Education; Sociology of Education; Teacher Education

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

(Displaying research/scholarly/creative work from 2020 to 2023)
  • Delaune A. (2023) Giftedness and Infancy/Toddlerhood: A Foucauldian Analysis of Discursive Constructions. Australasian Journal of Gifted Education 32(1): 5-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.21505/ajge.2023.0002. (Journal Articles)
  • Delaune A. (2023) The role of the moral imagination in decolonising visualities. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Delaune A. and Surtees N. (2023) Wellbeing in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond: Intimacy, physicality and love. In Kamp A; Brown C; McMenamin T; O'Toole V (Ed.), Wellbeing: Global policies and perspectives. Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond: 35-55.Peter Lang Ltd. (Chapters)
  • Delaune A. (2022) Intentional, intuitive, and imaginative: Considering Murdoch’s ‘inner life’ in early childhood education.. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Philosophy of Education Society Australasia: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 8-10 Dec 2022. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Dunham N. and Delaune A. (2022) Deterritorialising Intentional Teaching. Sydney NSW Australia: Philosophy of Education Society Australasia: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 8-10 Dec 2022. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Gibbons A., Stewart GT., Isom P., Jandrić P., Sosa R., Barker M., Cabral M., Peters MA., Delaune A. and Denton A. (2022) The future of philosophy and education: A panel of almost unimaginable speculations. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Philosophy of Education Society Australasia: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 8 Dec 2022. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mackey G. and Delaune A. (2022) A systems-based model for using UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goals in early childhood teacher education. Online: The New Zealand-China Early Childhood Education Symposium: Together for a Shared Future: Sustainable Development in Early Childhood Education and Care, 23 Sep 2022. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Medeiros Nogueira G., Delaune A. and Maciel Vahl M. (2022) Currículo da Educação Infantil no Brasil e na Aotearoa Nova Zelândia. Debates em Educação 14: 64-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.28998/2175-6600.2022v14nespp64-85. (Journal Articles)
  • Tesar M., Gibbons A., Sturm S., Delaune A. and White EJ. (2022) The future of/is visual pedagogies. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Philosophy of Education Society Australasia: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 8-10 Dec 2022. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Azarmandi M., Delaune A. and Te Rongopatahi KM. (2021) ARC-ECE: Anti-Racism Commitment in Early Childhood Education. Online: NZARE, 15-17 Nov 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Azarmandi M., Delaune A., Te Rongopatahi KM. and Surtees N. (2021) Developing Anti-Racism Commitment and Advocacy in Early Childhood Education. Christchurch New Zealand: Kāhui Ako Conference, 4-4 Jun 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Dean J. and Delaune A. (2021) Te waiora ki ngā tamariki ihumanea: Towards Te Tiriti-informed practice in gifted education. Online: New Zealand Association for Research in Education: Me tau pōike, tau atu, tau atu – Learning in Crises, 15 Nov 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Delaune A. (2021) Love, Attention, and Early Childhood Education: Resisting neoliberal notions of ‘professionalism’ through a Murdochian understanding of the inner life of the teacher. Online: Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association: Visionary Navigators: Advocating for children, families and early childhood education, 2 Jul 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Delaune A. (2021) The moral act of education in (Neuro)scientific times: Seeking equilibrium in ‘sense-making’ of early childhood education. Online: New Zealand Association for Research in Education: Me tau pōike, tau atu, tau atu – Learning in Crises, 15 Nov 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Delaune A. (2021) Towards an axiology of technological vision in education: The role of the moral imagination within the digital/visual culture. Bergen, Norway: Association for Visual Pedagogies: Exploring visual worlds of education, 8 Jun 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Delaune A., Azarmandi M., Surtees N. and Te Rongopatahi KM. (2021) Navigating Racism: Developing Anti-Racism Commitment and Advocacy in Early Childhood Education.. Online: Pacific Early Childhood Educaiton Research Association: Visionary Navigators: Advocating for children, families and early childhood education, 2 Jul 2022. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Dunham N. and Delaune A. (2021) Unravelling imbalances: Redesigning the student teacher dynamic. Online: New Zealand Association for Research in Education: Me tau pōike, tau atu, tau atu – Learning in Crises, 17 Dec 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Gibbons A., Peters MA., Delaune A., Jandrić P., Sojot AN., Kupferman DW., Tesar M., Johansson V., Cabral M. and Devine N. (2021) Infantasies: An EPAT collective project. Educational Philosophy and Theory 53(14): 1442-1453. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1860749. (Journal Articles)
  • Tesar M., Peters MA., White J., Charteris J., Delaune A., Thraves G., Westbrook F., Devine N. and Stewart GT. (2021) Infantilisations. Educational Philosophy and Theory : 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1933432. (Journal Articles)
  • Delaune A. (2020) Attention and early childhood education. Christchurch. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Delaune A. (2020) Love and infants: A Murdochian perspective. First Years Ngā Tau Tuatahi 1: 19-23. (Journal Articles)
  • Delaune A. (2020) The Beautiful Interruption of Teaching: Attention to others and wellbeing in post-COVID-19 lockdown. First Years Nga Tau Tuatahi 1: 5-7. (Journal Articles)
  • Peters MA., Jayne White E., Tesar M., Gibbons A., Arndt S., Rutanen N., Degotardi S., Salamon A., Browne K. and Redder B. (2020) Infantologies. An EPAT collective writing project. Educational Philosophy and Theory http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1835648. (Journal Articles)

Student Supervision

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    Current
  • PhD - Javed S: A comparative cross-cultural analysis of ECE teachers’ well-being: New Zealand and Pakistan
  • PhD - Lawton L: An examination of NEET youth
  • PhD - Liang Y: Migration experiences of Chinese higher educated “leftover women” in Singapore and New Zealand
  • PhD - Rahimi E: A Dialogic Analysis of Use of Objects in Early Childhood Education Centres
  • Summer Student - Lewis S: Understanding parents’ participation in me time
  • Completed
  • PhD - Beaumont-Bates J: E-portfolios in Early Childhood Education: The Work of Freedom in (Un)silencing the Disciplining of Bodies (2022)
  • Masters - Ambrosiussen I: The Ecology of the Transition to School: Exploring the Transition from ECE to Primary School through Cross-sector Collaboration (2023)

Future Research

  • Intentionality and the role of the Intentional Teacher
  • ARC-ECE: Anti-Racsim Committment in Early Childhood Education - Pathways to equity, inclusion, and social justice
  • The Interdependence of Wellbeing: Infant and Toddler Teachers and Wellbeing in a post-Covid world
  • Sustainability and sustainability in education
  • Speculative thinking for (un)knowable futures
  • Dialogues for professional development
  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi informed educational practice
  • Education in an age of limits: Thinking critically about educational philosophies and sustainability
  • Experiences of Early childhood teachers in te reo Māori professional development: te reo Māori in ECE pedagogies: He ara whakapakari i te reo Māori
  • Experiences of an 'Early Career Researcher': Views of the 'Utterly Optimistic Academic'

Key Methodologies

  • Philosophy of Education
  • Qualitative Methods (critical discourse analysis, poststructuralist methodologies, case-study research)
  • Critical Policy Analysis
  • Feminist poststructuralism
  • Counter-colonial philosophy
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