Alison Kearney | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Massey University |
Theses | |
Doctoral advisor | Jill Bevan-Brown, Roseanna Bourke , Ruth Kane |
Other advisors | Mark E. Brown, Ken Ryba |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Massey University |
Alison Kearney is a New Zealand education academic and teacher,and is a full professor at Massey University,specialising in educational equity and inclusion.
Kearney was born and grew up in Gisborne. Her brother was born with intellectual disabilities,and was institutionalised,sparking Kearney's interest in how and why students are marginalised and excluded from education. Kearney worked as a primary school teacher for fifteen years,and then as a special needs teacher. [1] [2]
Kearney completed a Master of Education in special education with a thesis on the practice of using computers to increase educational inclusion,and a PhD titled Barriers to school inclusion:an investigation into the exclusion of disabled students from and within New Zealand schools,both at Massey University. [3] [4] Kearney then joined the faculty of Massey,rising to full professor in 2023. [5] As of 2024 she is Head of the Institute of Education at Massey. Previously she was the Head of the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the College of Education. She was also founding co-director of the Equity through Education Centre. [5] Kearney is an editor of Kairaranga,an interprofessional journal about equity in education. [5]
Kearney's research focuses on inclusion and educational equity. [1] [6] [5] Kearney is chairperson of the New Zealand Council of Deans of Education. [7] In this capacity Kearney responded to the Minister of Education Erica Stanford's criticisms of initial teacher education as "woeful" by asking for a 'please explain' meeting,saying that the government's suggested approach to reading education was "the antithesis of achieving equity". [7]
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