New Zealand Association for Research in Education Conference 2025

18 November 2025 - 20 November 2025

Region(s): Auckland

Type(s): conferences

The 2025 New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) Conference seeks to stimulate debate, extend conversations, and explore ways to strengthen the place of education—its connections, responsibilities, and futures. This year it will be held at Auckland University, Waipapa Taumata Rau.

The theme is Place in Education: Connections, Responsibilities, and Futures.

Education is intricately embedded and situated in place. In Aotearoa, te ao Māori offers meanings of place as carrying significance beyond the immediate and material. The place of education is both general and specific, shaped by history, time and lived experience. It reaches across the everyday into past logics of organising education.

Our relation to the places of education shapes how we connect with each other, our worlds, and the sites, spaces and objects we engage with daily. It also highlights our ethical and moral responsibilities as researchers to consider the sustainability of our world and the urgent environmental challenges that impact education’s future.

Thinking about place in education is relevant to global and local contexts but demands attention to our own communities. Indigenous and postcolonial scholars encourage us to pay more attention to place. As such, all educational researchers are invited to reflect on the meanings of place in education in relation to their own contexts and from a diverse range of epistemological and methodological perspectives.

The Herbison Lecture, will be given by Georgina Tuari Stewart (Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu, Ngāti Maru ki Pare Hauraki), titled 'Finding our Place in Education'.

Keynote speaker: Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, ean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria.

Panel discussion will look at: A place for the arts in Aotearoa Educational Research.

For more information and to register: www.nzare.org.nz/conference.