Twelve thousand hours : education and poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand / edited by Vicki M. Carpenter & Sue Osborne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Structure, agency and social justice -- Part Two. Worlds and words: Teachers' postgraduate studies. -- Part Three. We are manawa ora: We are hope -- --

Part One. Structure, agency and social justice -- Poverty and inequality of educational achievement / Ivan Snook & John O'Neill -- Pōhara, tōnui, kōkiri: Imagine a child and whānau-centred economy of equality, wealth creation and poverty removal / Mānuka Hēnare -- Food in schools: Reflections on the new social space / Donna Wynd -- Deficit thinking and the politics of blame / Martin Thrupp -- Pacific students: Positioned as failures, targets and consumers / Diane Mara -- Pedagogies of hope: Dialogical professional development / Vicki M. Carpenter -- "Out of sight, out of mind?" Education provision for learners disengaged from school / Jane Higgins & Karen Nairn -- Teacher saints and principal superheroes / Jane Blaikie -- -- Part Two. Worlds and words: Teachers' postgraduate studies. -- Learning to teach: Pre-service teachers' engagement with poverty and disadvantage / Jennifer Tatebe. -- Boards of trustees and parents in a low-decile school: Communication / Jean Mansill. -- Whanaungatanga in education / Rawiri McKinney. -- Relational trust and Pākehā principals working with Māori cultural difference / Rose Yukich. -- Positive race relations in a South Auckland secondary school / Shaquelle Maybury. -- Equitable outcomes for Pasifika students / Michelle Hards -- -- Part Three. We are manawa ora: We are hope -- Colouring in the white spaces / Ann Milne -- Deliberate acts of engagement / Michelle Hards -- The Starpath Project: Promoting student success in secondary schools serving low-SES communities / Andrés P. Santamaría, Melinda Webber, Elizabeth McKinley & Irena Madjar -- Love lives here: Realising rangatahi potential / Sarah Longbottom -- Manaiakalani: Tackling the educational challenge of poverty through innovation and collaboration / Rebecca Jesson, Jean Annan, Stuart McNaughton & Pat Snedden -- A suicide of the soul: Neoliberalism, the arts and democracy / Peter O'Connor.