Being ANTish in Aotearoa New Zealand: Leaders Assembling Net-Work

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Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Seismology; Natural Disasters; Environmental Influences; Community Leaders; Government Role; Educational Theories; Networks; Social Theories; Communities of Practice

10.1080/00220620.2023.2258357

0022-0620
1478-7431

This article takes up an ANTian sensibility to explore the enactment of a policy for educational collaboration in one region in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand (New Zealand). The case offers potential for considering the benefits of a sociology of associations (Latour 2005/2007): a Treaty-based bicultural nation, school atomisation consequential to a decades-long 'system' of self-managing schools, and geological actors in the form of damaging earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. The article considers the introduction of voluntary Kahui Ako | Communities of Learning as a policy initiative intended to address achievement and equity concerns by providing support for collaboration. While the policy as articulated focuses on the aspirations and abilities of human actors in leadership roles, I take up ideas around actants, symmetry, alliance and translation to foreground other actors -- both present and long absent -- involved in myriad processes of policy enactment.

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2024

EJ1406856