title: Geography in New Zealand 2008-2012

authors: Chalmers, Lex

abstract: Every four years the International Geographical Union (IGU) requests a National Report from Member Countries. The text below is a version of the submission made on behalf of New Zealand Geography in August 2012. The issues that have faced geography in the 2008–2012 period in New Zealand have been transitional rather than transformational. The commentary later should be read against the impact of the economic events of 2008 (reduced research funding and the move to an auditing approach to research); the establishment of research themes in cultural geography that now sit alongside geography’s traditional interests and skills; an expressed interest in redeveloping links to physical geography; the implementation of the new National Curriculum (2007) in the secondary sector and the demographic transitions across stafﬁng in the discipline.

text: Geography in New Zealand 2008-2012 Every four years the International Geographical Union (IGU) requests a National Report from Member Countries. The text below is a version of the submission made on behalf of New Zealand Geography in August 2012. The issues that have faced geography in the 2008–2012 period in New Zealand have been transitional rather than transformational. The commentary later should be read against the impact of the economic events of 2008 (reduced research funding and the move to an auditing approach to research); the establishment of research themes in cultural geography that now sit alongside geography’s traditional interests and skills; an expressed interest in redeveloping links to physical geography; the implementation of the new National Curriculum (2007) in the secondary sector and the demographic transitions across stafﬁng in the discipline.

year: 2013

title: Guest editorial Geography teaching, governance and professional development

authors: Chalmers, Lex

abstract: One of the things that have characterised the activity of secondary teaching in the last two decades has been the increasing impact of ‘governance’, where governance is taken to mean implementation and compliance with new curriculum and assessment frameworks, new teacher/school management and performance criteria andnewways of viewing educational practice. Governance issues affect teaching by consuming time that could more purposefully be directed to professional development, and this matter is the focus of this commentary.

text: Guest editorial Geography teaching, governance and professional development One of the things that have characterised the activity of secondary teaching in the last two decades has been the increasing impact of ‘governance’, where governance is taken to mean implementation and compliance with new curriculum and assessment frameworks, new teacher/school management and performance criteria andnewways of viewing educational practice. Governance issues affect teaching by consuming time that could more purposefully be directed to professional development, and this matter is the focus of this commentary.

year: 2005

title: Traittore; Traduttore: Cultural integrity and translation involving Maori and other indigenous languages

authors: Roa, Tom

subjects: Ethics of translation

abstract: Traittore; Traduttore is Italian for Traitor; Translator. I argue here that translation from or into an indigenous language such as Māori is always, whatever the content and function of the source text, a political act and that, therefore, a Code of Ethics grounded in indigenous perspectives is essential if the ever-present danger of cultural betrayal is to be avoided.

text: Traittore; Traduttore: Cultural integrity and translation involving Maori and other indigenous languages Traittore; Traduttore is Italian for Traitor; Translator. I argue here that translation from or into an indigenous language such as Māori is always, whatever the content and function of the source text, a political act and that, therefore, a Code of Ethics grounded in indigenous perspectives is essential if the ever-present danger of cultural betrayal is to be avoided.

year: 2004