Educators and Tertiary education organisations have the professional responsibility to:

• Educate people to help them lead a meaningful life;
• Help create a just and caring society;
• Be guides, role models, challengers and learners.

Learning is:

• An active process that can only be undertaken by the person who learns: Learning is always personal.
• Hard work: Learning costs energy and time and can be frustrating, as new knowledge challenges our very being.
• A creative process that occurs through interacting with the world: Relationships and connections are essential in influencing learning.

Through my work I aim to:

• Help create tertiary education programmes and courses that:
  • assist people in leading meaningful lives;
  • embrace diversity and nurture sustainability;
  • allow students to take ownership of their learning;
• Strengthen curriculum development as an educational endeavour, with particular attention to answering the question: What and whose knowledge is most important to be learned?;
• Help educational organisations develop as educational knowledge centres for their communities;
• Help enrich the potential of Aotearoa/New Zealand society by bringing alternative approaches and perspectives into educational practice and thought.