Empowering an indigenous rural community: Local teachers for local schools
POLO is the name given by the Christchurch College of Education to the distance delivery of three-year primary teacher education to students all over New Zealand. These are students who wish to train for teaching but are prevented from doing so because of where they live. POLO also involves others...
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Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand
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| description | POLO is the name given by the Christchurch College of Education to the distance delivery of three-year primary teacher education to students all over New Zealand. These are students who wish to train for teaching but are prevented from doing so because of where they live. POLO also involves others who wish to train without having to attend on-campus as a full-time face-to-face student. The innovative nature of this programme includes the establishment of a group of students, mainly indigenous New Zealanders, in the Hokianga, one of New Zealand's most isolated and economical! y disadvantaged areas. The four-year programme, from which students graduated at the end of 2000, uses mainly print-based courses combined with communications technologies. This paper explores how the programme was adapted to meet specific local needs relating to Maori language and culture, and describes how particular features of the programme have become a catalyst for the empowerment of individuals, the local community, and beyond.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c496f0ecf34e4404988a8a880ee94c402023-01-03T03:42:02ZengFlexible Learning Association of New ZealandJournal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning1179-76651179-76732012-05-0171Empowering an indigenous rural community: Local teachers for local schoolsJohn Delany0Derek Wenmoth1Christchurch College of EducationThe Correspondence School POLO is the name given by the Christchurch College of Education to the distance delivery of three-year primary teacher education to students all over New Zealand. These are students who wish to train for teaching but are prevented from doing so because of where they live. POLO also involves others who wish to train without having to attend on-campus as a full-time face-to-face student. The innovative nature of this programme includes the establishment of a group of students, mainly indigenous New Zealanders, in the Hokianga, one of New Zealand's most isolated and economical! y disadvantaged areas. The four-year programme, from which students graduated at the end of 2000, uses mainly print-based courses combined with communications technologies. This paper explores how the programme was adapted to meet specific local needs relating to Maori language and culture, and describes how particular features of the programme have become a catalyst for the empowerment of individuals, the local community, and beyond. https://jofdl.nz/index.php/JOFDL/article/view/135online learningdistance educatione-learningdistance learningtechnology-enhanced learningteacher training |
| spellingShingle | John Delany Derek Wenmoth Empowering an indigenous rural community: Local teachers for local schools Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning online learning distance education e-learning distance learning technology-enhanced learning teacher training |
| title | Empowering an indigenous rural community: Local teachers for local schools |
| title_full | Empowering an indigenous rural community: Local teachers for local schools |
| title_fullStr | Empowering an indigenous rural community: Local teachers for local schools |
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| title_short | Empowering an indigenous rural community: Local teachers for local schools |
| title_sort | empowering an indigenous rural community local teachers for local schools |
| topic | online learning distance education e-learning distance learning technology-enhanced learning teacher training |
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