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Reshaping Vocational Education and Training in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Editors:
  1. Selena Chan

    1. Te Kāhui Rauhi Kaimahi (People and Capability Division), Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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  2. Nicholas Huntington

    1. Policy, Research and Performance, Nursing Council of New Zealand, Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand

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  • Presents the purposes, approaches and practices, and direction of Aotearoa New Zealand VET across multiple sectors
  • Examines distinct features of Aotearoa New Zealand and its holistic approaches towards accrediting VET qualifications
  • Details current reforms of vocational education intended to ensure equitable access and support for learners

Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 34)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Context and History of Aotearoa New Zealand Vocational Education and Training

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction – Reshaping for the Future: Challenges and Innovation

      • Nicholas Huntington, Selena Chan
      Pages 3-20

    3. Industry Training Organisations: A Perspective on History, Evolution, and Innovation

      • Josh Williams
      Pages 21-37

    4. The Evolution of NZ Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics

      • Jim Doyle, Selena Chan, Marion Hale
      Pages 39-56

    5. The Reform of Vocational Education 1: The Context for Change

      • Nicholas Huntington
      Pages 57-71

    6. The Reform of Vocational Education 2: Looking to the Future

      • Nicholas Huntington
      Pages 73-93

  3. Responding to Issues of Equity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Unleashing Potential – Legitimising Māori Talent Through Capable Māori

      • Kelli Te Maihāroa, Janine Kapa, Eruera Tarena
      Pages 97-112

    3. The Learners’ Voice: Pacific Peoples in Industry Training

      • Laloifi Ripley, Nicky Murray, Anne Alkema
      Pages 113-129

    4. Women in Trades: Industry Training Organisations’ (ITOs) Initiatives to Increase Participation

      • Kylie Taffard, Nicky Murray
      Pages 131-147

  4. Foundation and ‘Traditional’ Vocational Education and Training

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Vocational Workplace Learning: Who Is in the Driver’s Seat?

      • Anne Alkema
      Pages 151-166

    3. Investigating the Complexity of Language Use in Trades Education in the Aotearoa New Zealand Context

      • Jean Parkinson, Averil Coxhead, James Mackay, Emma McLaughlin
      Pages 167-189

    4. Secondary/Tertiary High School, Changing Student Experiences Through VET

      • Stuart Middleton
      Pages 191-207

  5. Degree Level Vocational Education in Aotearoa New Zealand

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Project-Based Learning with Contributions from Inquiry and Problem-Based Learning

      • Selena Chan, Amitrajit Sarkar, Bernadette Muir, Karen Neill
      Pages 211-231

    3. Deconstructing Learning: The Modernist Classroom

      • Richard Mitchell, Adrian Woodhouse, Steve Ellwood, David Gillespie, Tony Heptinstall, Chloe Humphreys et al.
      Pages 233-250

    4. Collaboration Across Aotearoa New Zealand ITPs: The Bachelor of Engineering Technology Three-Year Engineering Degree Programme as an Exemplar

      • Roger Birchmore, John Blakeley, Edward Chai, Jonathan Leaver, Wei Loo, Randall McMullan et al.
      Pages 251-277

    5. Developing an Engineering Degree Apprenticeship with a Pathway in Infrastructure Asset Management

      • James Mackay, Hana Cadzow
      Pages 279-297
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Keywords

About this book

This book contributes extensively to a better understanding of how vocational education and training (VET) and practice-based learning and teaching is developed and designed. It presents examples of vocational education as an ongoing dialogue, continually refreshed through engagement between educators and learners, Māori, employers, industry, and others. It demonstrates how the needs of learners can be met through relevant models of delivery, and how organisations and individuals work towards equity of access and parity of outcomes for all.


It details the origins, purposes and evolution of vocational organisations, initiatives supporting Māori and Pasifika success and women in traditionally male-dominated occupations, the roles, provisioning and impact of foundation VET across different contexts, innovations through Certificate, Diploma and Degree programmes of learning, the contribution of new technologies to learning approaches, and the efficacy of education and professional development for VET teachers.


This collection of chapters illustrates how Aotearoa New Zealand’s VET system is responding to challenging and changing environments through new frameworks of practice, approaches, and models of delivery. As an overview of a system in change, it is of interest to VET educators, system managers, and policy makers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Te Kāhui Rauhi Kaimahi (People and Capability Division), Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Selena Chan

  • Policy, Research and Performance, Nursing Council of New Zealand, Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand

    Nicholas Huntington

About the editors

Dr Selena Chan is an educational / research capability developer at Ara Institute of Canterbury (formerly Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology – CPIT). She brings into her research, her past experiences as a craft/tradesperson and vocational education educator. Through the last two decades, her work has informed the support of entry into and completion of apprenticeship; development of technology-enhanced learning in VET; the recognition of the dual identities of vocational educators as craftsperson and teacher; and improved understanding of the ways practice-based learning is enacted. Much of this work is presented and discussed in her 2020 book, 'Identity, pedagogy, and technology-enhanced learning: Supporting the processes of becoming a trades person'. Her latest book published in 2021, 'Digitally-enabling ‘learning by doing’ in vocational education: enhancing ‘learning as becoming’ processes', summarises the learnings derived from supporting the curriculum design and shift to ‘distance learning’ wrought by the pandemic


Dr Nicholas Huntington has worked at the intersection of research and policy for a range of agencies, organisations, and research units. Before taking up his current role with the Nursing Council of New Zealand, he managed the Building and Construction ITO’s policy response to the government’s vocational reforms. Prior to that he led the policy and strategic projects portfolios at Ako Aotearoa, the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, where he had a particular focus on promoting vocational education research, skills and workplace-led learning, the relationship between education and work, and supporting learner voice in tertiary education. He was a member of the Tertiary Education Commission’s Workforce Development Council Design Reference Group. Nicholas has authored and co-authored publications on a wide range of topics, from electoral politics to health workforce development, and his recent doctoral thesis explores how practitioners in New Zealand’s skills policy community engage with the concept of evidence-based policy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reshaping Vocational Education and Training in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Editors: Selena Chan, Nicholas Huntington

  • Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12168-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12167-8Published: 26 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12170-8Published: 27 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12168-5Published: 25 October 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2210-5549

  • Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 395

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics, History of Education

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