Constellations of Alternative Education Tutors

Adrian Schoone PhD, lectures in Education at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. His study on the lived experiences of alternate education tutors was New Zealand’s first examined poetic inquiry PhD. Adrian was recipient of a Vodafone Foundation fellowship to support ongoing research into alternative education approaches. He chaired the Alternative Education National Body from 2009 – 2015.

• Finding the Poetry of Tutors.- Introduction.- Part I: Found by the Poem.- Alternative Education in New Zealand.- Being found by the Poem.- Phenomenological Poetic Inquiry.- Poetic Inquiry.- Research Context and Participants.- Part II: In Search for Shining Fragments.- Finding the Words.- Creating found Poetry from Interview Transcripts.- Deepening the found Poems.- Creating Maximus.- Maximus and the Imprinting of Essences.- Part III: Constellations.- Making sense through Constellations.- Constellation and Crystallization.- Creating Concreate Constellation Poems.- The lines that join.- Essences of call.- Essences of love.- Essences of joy.- Essences of empathy.- Essences of grace.- Essences of mana.- Essences of watching-over.- Essences of commitment.- Essences of past experiences.- Essences of criticality.- Essences of whanau.- Essences of guidance.- Essences of poiesis.- Essences of talanoa.- Essences of holism.- Essences of thoughtful pedagogy.- Essences of movement.- Essences of epiphany.- Essences of mystery.- Essences of transformation.- The Interlocking Horizons of Alternative Education Tutor Essences.- Conclusion: Making Landfall.- The Inland Journey for Tutors.