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Nesta Devine

Associate Professor

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 extension 7361

Email: nesta.devine@aut.ac.nz

Physical Address:
AR207, School of Education, North Shore Campus

Qualifications:

B.A. M.A. DipTchg. PHd.

Memberships and Affiliations:

Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. Vice president.
Editoral board: Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Biography:

  • Associate Professor, School of Education, teaching in the postgraduate area.
  • Faculty Research committee: Exam Board: Postgraduate research committee.
  • School of education research committee; Contestable research funds committee.
  • Research co-ordinator, School of Education.

Teaching Areas:

  • Special study: Philosophy of education 299031
  • Educational Research 299301
  • Reflection on professional practice 299028/016
  • Leading in diverse cultures and communities 299015.
  • Ed Research Portfolios 299001/2/3/4

Current Research Projects:

  • The discourse (s) of economics and its effect on education
  • Pasifika education experiences:  teachers understanding of their work
  • Prison education.

Publications:

Devine, N.  (2009). Prison education: a cautionary tale from the murky world of meta-analyses. (forthcoming) New Zealand education policy review, eds, M. Thrupp, R. Irwin, C. Savage. Hamilton, WMIER .

Devine, N. (2008). Deleuze, Education and Becoming - by Semetsky, I.

Educational Philosophy and Theory Volume 40, Issue 3, Date: June 2008, Pages: 453-455

Devine N, & R. Irwin, Autonomy, agency and education: he tangata, he tangata, he tangata, Postfoundationalist Themes in the Philosophy of education. Eds: P. Smeyers and M. Peters  Blackwell, Oxford.

Brown, T, N. Devine, E Leslie, M Paiti, E Silailai, S Umaki j. Williiams, Reflective engagement in cultural history: a Lacanian perspective on Pasifika teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand.  Pedagogy, culture & Society, vol 15, no 1. March 2007 pp 107-118.

Devine, N.  (2007). Prison education, from justice to corrections. New Zealand annual review of education 2007.

Devine, N.  (2006). Life, the Crocodile, the Pisikoa and the Wind: representations of teaching in the writings of three Pacific authors.  WJE vol 12, pp123 134..

Devine, N.  (2005). Derrida, Democracy and education, ACCESS: critical perspectives on communication, cultural and policy studies, vol 24 (1&2) 2005, pp 67-74

Devine, N.  (2005). Is Analytic Marxism possible? A socialist interpretation of Public Choice theory. Philosophy of management, vol 5 no 2  pp 47-53.

Devine N, & R. Irwin, (2005). Autonomy, agency and education: He tangata, he tangata, he tangata, in Festschrift for James Marshall, Education philosophy and theory, vol 37 no 3.  ed, Michael Peters.

Devine, N. (2004). Public Choice Theory and Education, Praeger, Connecticut.

Devine, N.  (2003). Politicising technology and technologising politics, ACCESS, : critical perspectives on communication, cultural and policy studies, vol 22, 2003. Pp.67-72

Devine, N.  . (2003). Pedagogy and Subjectivity: creating our own students, Waikato Journal of Education vol 9 2003.

Devine, N.  (2002). Public Choice Theory: the background to managerialism in education 2002: Prospero: Special issue: The Managerial School, Volume 8 Number 4 2002

Devine, N.  (2001). Review, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies.

Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd (2000): The Tomorrow's Schools Reforms: an American Perspective, IPS Policy paper number 6, 2000, Institute for Policy Studies, University of Victoria.

Devine, N.  (2001). The Experiences of Year 9 and 10 Maori students, Literature review, Elizabeth McKinley and Nesta Devine, for Ministry of Education Maori Research Division, scoping contract.

Devine, N.  (1999). Encyclopaedia of the Philosophy of Education On-line, (eds Michael Peters and Paulo Ghiraldelli) 1999, Friedrich Hayek and education (also translated into Portuguese). (http://www.educao.pro.br/)

Devine, N. (1999).  Waikato Journal of Education (1999) Neo-liberalism and constructions of democracy: the impact on teachers work.

Devine, N.  (1998).Trompe-loeil, A critical exploration of theory underpinning Public Choice Theory and the preference for individual action. ACCESS, (1998)

Devine, N.  (1997). Queensland Teachers Union Professional Magazine: The New Zealand Experience Nov 1997, vol 15. 

Book reviews 

Deleuze, Education and Becoming - by Semetsky, I. Educational Philosophy and Theory Volume 40, Issue 3, Date: June 2008, Pages: 453-455

Devine, N.  (2001). Review, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd (2000): The Tomorrow's Schools Reforms: an American Perspective, IPS Policy paper number 6, 2000, Institute for Policy Studies, University of Victoria.

 

Awards:

ESL study award, 1978
STA Study Award, 1997
Education Leadership society research award 2002.
Book review

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