Vicki Macknight
Biographic Data
| ID | 5899138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicki Macknight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicki |
| FAMILY NAME | Macknight |
| SIGNATURE | MACKNIGHT V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4280-7123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What We Do in Kauri Forests
Public use and anthropogenic activity are recognised sources of damage and threat to vulnerable forest areas in New Zealand, but also globally, through the spread of pathogens on shoes, tyres and on the paws of their companion adventurers.User experiences of sensitive and spiritual forest areas, however, have not been fully examined, particularly for those who might be considered 'high-risk' users of these areas.Using inplace methods and in-depth…
Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise
Park rangers hold a unique set of knowledge—of science, of publics, of institutional structures, of place, and of self—that should be recognised as valuable. For too long, models of the knowledge of scientists and publics have set people like rangers in an inbetweener position, seeing them as good at communicating, translating or negotiating from one side to the other, but not as making knowledge that is powerful in its own right. In this paper w…
It’s not like any survey I’ve ever seen before’
This paper unpacks what happened when members of the local community were invited to design and test a valuation tool – specifically a discrete choice experiment – to find a valuation for New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula. We argue that the assumptions that lie within a discrete choice experiment are revealed when we look closely at how community participants react to the discrete choice experiment survey they have helped design. These assumptions, u…
(Google-)Knowing Economics
How is economics made public? Specifically, how is economics made public on Google? Here we explore a methodological problem – studying google-knowing – and simultaneously explore the more pragmatic problem of the public-making of economics. We argue there has been very little attempt either to make economics public or to understand what is currently in the public sphere about economics. This is especially stark when compared to other knowledge c…
Imagining Classrooms
In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imaginations are being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas. Each classroom is part of a different type of school: a Waldorf/Steiner school, an exclusive private school, a middle-class government school, a diverse catholic school, and a school for intellectually disabled ‘specia…
Maths Teaching Methods
Curricula are devices intended to give children the knowledge and skills to cope in an expected future world. How are middle primary school children being taught to abstract when doing mathematics at school? Answers to this question are rapidly changing, with far-reaching consequences, in the Australian state of Victoria. Scholars, educational reformers, governments and primary school teachers are moving from a foundational to a relational notion…
Ideal knowing
This paper is written to draw attention to the ideal knower and the logic of knowledge embedded in curricula. New logics and new knowers, I argue, are conjured with the hope they will be capable of succeeding in curriculum designers’ imagined future. I frame this discussion in terms of debates about the place of knowledge in the sociology of education. Knowledge and knowers are produced together in curriculum, and it is useful to keep them togeth…
So, you want to feel at home? Domesticating Australia in 1950s primary school education1
This article examines Australian nationalism as disseminated to Victorian primary school children in the 1950s. Drawing on school readers it argues that by that decade Australian identity was told as focused around ‘the home’. Following the structure of Robert Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’ speech the concept of home is divided into three: homes material, homes human and homes spiritual. Under ‘homes material’ cluster the primacy of home ownership i…
For King, For Country
Far from being incidental, what is taught at primary school can reveal key beliefs about the world and its future held at a given period. I compare Victorian primary school curricula and reading resources of the 1930s and 1950s, attending particularly to references to war and cultural difference. I find that in the 1930s war was to be avoided by valuing cultural differences, whereas in the later decade the aim was effacement of difference through…
So, you want to feel at home? Domesticating Australia in 1950s primary school education1
This article examines Australian nationalism as disseminated to Victorian primary school children in the 1950s. Drawing on school readers it argues that by that decade Australian identity was told as focused around ‘the home’. Following the structure of Robert Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’ speech the concept of home is divided into three: homes material, homes human and homes spiritual. Under ‘homes material’ cluster the primacy of home ownership i…
For King, For Country
Far from being incidental, what is taught at primary school can reveal key beliefs about the world and its future held at a given period. I compare Victorian primary school curricula and reading resources of the 1930s and 1950s, attending particularly to references to war and cultural difference. I find that in the 1930s war was to be avoided by valuing cultural differences, whereas in the later decade the aim was effacement of difference through…
So, you want to feel at home? Domesticating Australia in 1950s primary school education1
This article examines Australian nationalism as disseminated to Victorian primary school children in the 1950s. Drawing on school readers it argues that by that decade Australian identity was told as focused around ‘the home’. Following the structure of Robert Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’ speech the concept of home is divided into three: homes material, homes human and homes spiritual. Under ‘homes material’ cluster the primacy of home ownership i…
Maths Teaching Methods
Curricula are devices intended to give children the knowledge and skills to cope in an expected future world. How are middle primary school children being taught to abstract when doing mathematics at school? Answers to this question are rapidly changing, with far-reaching consequences, in the Australian state of Victoria. Scholars, educational reformers, governments and primary school teachers are moving from a foundational to a relational notion…
Ideal knowing
This paper is written to draw attention to the ideal knower and the logic of knowledge embedded in curricula. New logics and new knowers, I argue, are conjured with the hope they will be capable of succeeding in curriculum designers’ imagined future. I frame this discussion in terms of debates about the place of knowledge in the sociology of education. Knowledge and knowers are produced together in curriculum, and it is useful to keep them togeth…
Imagining Classrooms
In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imaginations are being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas. Each classroom is part of a different type of school: a Waldorf/Steiner school, an exclusive private school, a middle-class government school, a diverse catholic school, and a school for intellectually disabled ‘specia…
(Google-)Knowing Economics
How is economics made public? Specifically, how is economics made public on Google? Here we explore a methodological problem – studying google-knowing – and simultaneously explore the more pragmatic problem of the public-making of economics. We argue there has been very little attempt either to make economics public or to understand what is currently in the public sphere about economics. This is especially stark when compared to other knowledge c…
It’s not like any survey I’ve ever seen before’
This paper unpacks what happened when members of the local community were invited to design and test a valuation tool – specifically a discrete choice experiment – to find a valuation for New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula. We argue that the assumptions that lie within a discrete choice experiment are revealed when we look closely at how community participants react to the discrete choice experiment survey they have helped design. These assumptions, u…
What We Do in Kauri Forests
Public use and anthropogenic activity are recognised sources of damage and threat to vulnerable forest areas in New Zealand, but also globally, through the spread of pathogens on shoes, tyres and on the paws of their companion adventurers.User experiences of sensitive and spiritual forest areas, however, have not been fully examined, particularly for those who might be considered 'high-risk' users of these areas.Using inplace methods and in-depth…
Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise
Park rangers hold a unique set of knowledge—of science, of publics, of institutional structures, of place, and of self—that should be recognised as valuable. For too long, models of the knowledge of scientists and publics have set people like rangers in an inbetweener position, seeing them as good at communicating, translating or negotiating from one side to the other, but not as making knowledge that is powerful in its own right. In this paper w…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Curriculum (3 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Aotearoa (2 works)