Essays

• 12 Apr, 2026 Before Landscapes Die

  The pastoral imagination that could only see wetlands as waste is not unrelated to the policy imagination that can only see achievement where it can be sequenced, benchmarked, and ranked.

• 07 Apr, 2026 The Half Light

  On safety, learning, and what we lose when we iron out the unexpected.

• 03 Mar, 2026 The Classroom is a Political Space

  When 'the science of learning' leads us to oppression, what should we do?

• 09 Jan, 2026 The Future, Out Of Focus

  An encounter with a student makes me think about the world being made for us.

• 23 Nov, 2024 Seymour’s Tyranny

  Te Tiriti protects us all. The drive to minimise it is a threat to us all.