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Video 3 | Grow Community
This video was created as part of an in-depth inquiry into the effectiveness of Poutama Pounamu Blended Learning (PPBL) with staff at Waikato University.
The PPBL Programme is a year-long professional learning and development opportunity designed to surface and challenge long-held beliefs of educators, rooted in the rhetoric of colonisation.
The content is framed around opportunities for participants to engage in and learn through the following three processes: to know self, to grow self and to grow community.
Grow community
To grow community means being proactive with this learning and taking it to the wider level of reform, whether it was growing one’s classroom praxis or one’s professional community. This requires understanding the cultural contexts in which we work and understanding our own agency and power, and the power and influence of our society and professional institutions.
This research presents findings of an in-depth inquiry into the effectiveness of Poutama Pounamu Blended Learning (PPBL), a professional learning and development initiative for educators at Te Kura Toi Tangata, the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato, and how that has influenced and changed their own work with student teachers.
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Ako Aotearoa’s
Ako Aotearoa Research and Innovation Agenda (AARIA)
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