NZARE - New Zealand Association for Research in Education

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The Association has around 360 members, including teachers, educational researchers, students, administrators, and others interested in educational research.

• Membership year: 1 July–30 June.
• Members can join one or more

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) at no additional cost.

• Honorary Life Membership is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the Association or to educational research.

Membership | NZARE The Association presently consists of about 360 members. Individual members include teachers, educational researchers, students, educational administrators, and other people with an interest in learning from educational research.

New blog on Ipu Kererū, Dr Lindsay Fish writes about how the Teaching and Teacher Education SIG created a hospitable research ecosystem.

Research ecosystems: In praise of hexagons and hospitality The Teaching and Teacher Education SIG invites people to consider how we might create hospitable spaces to encourage healthy and energised research ecosystems.

New on Ipu Kererū, NZARE's blog: Daniela Brown shares her institution's journey to ensure their initial teacher education programme maintains its heart while aligning with new regulatory requirements. Read it here:

Finding The Soul Within The Regulatory Mandate Daniela Brown shares her institution’s journey to integrate the 2026 Standards for the Teaching Profession into ITE

New blog post out on Ipu Kererū -

Ruth Boyask, Maryanne Mcdonald and Melanie Drake share on community engagement and schools.

Engagement of Communities in Aotearoa New Zealand schools. Ruth Boyask, Maryanne Macdonald and Melanie Drake share their research on some of their findings related to community engagement in schools.

New on Ipu Kererū, NZARE's blog: In part 2 of our series, Bronwen Cowie and Rosemary Hipkins share their research into stacking waystations of professional knowledge that support changes in practice. Read it here:

Do our ideas stack up? Towards a bicultural curriculum Part 2 Bronwen Cowie and Rosemary Hipkins share their research into stacking waystations of professional knowledge that support changes in practice.

New On Ipu Kererū, NZARE's blog: Bronwen Cowie and Rosemary Hipkins explain waystations as areas of professional knowledge that support changes in practice. Read it here:

‘Waystations’ for exploring professional beliefs and experiences: Towards a bicultural curriculum Part 1 Bronwen Cowie and Rosemary Hipkins share their research into waystations as areas of professional knowledge that support changes in practice.

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New on Ipu Kererū, NZARE's blog: Elizabeth Gordon shares her experience from curriculum development in the 1980s, asking whether we have learned from or will repeat the past. Read it here:

Learning from or repeating the past? Revisiting syllabus revision in the 1980s Elizabeth Gordon shares her experience from curriculum development in the 1980s, asking whether we have learned from or will repeat the past.

📌Save the date!✨16th to 18th November
NZARE 2026 Conference will be held at University of Canterbury

Nau mai, tauti mai ki Te Hunga Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa – Welcome to NZARE
The New Zealand Association for Research in Education aims to foster excellence in educational research in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its membership is made up of established and new researchers from a variety of organisations in New Zealand and overseas.

Home | NZARE  As a national organisation, NZARE connects those interested in educational research, tertiary institutions, schools and early childhood centres, government agencies such as the Ministry of Education, and the New Zealand Council for Research in Education.

New blog post on Ipu Kererū. In this blog post Imogen Casebourne, Nigel Calder, Kevin Martin, Kate Rhodes and Cynthia James share on their research exploring how to create dialogic spaces in STEM education.

Creating Dialogic Spaces in STEM Education This article explores how shared ground rules help create dialogic spaces in STEM education, where learners can build trust, collaborate meaningfully, and share ideas with confidence. The authors a…