DrAdrian Schoone

Associate Professor Adrian Schoone is the Head of School for the School of Education. Adrian is a research specialist in Alternative Education with a focus on educational opportunity and access for disenfranchised students. Adrian’s research underscores the importance of educating a teaching workforce who are responsive to the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. Committed to developing a broad education workforce, he developed Australasia’s first academic programme in Social Pedagogy, the BA Social Education minor. Adrian is an arts-based education researcher known for poetic inquiry. He publishes widely on innovative approaches within arts-based research practices.   

Adrian is a New Zealand registered primary school teacher who spent much of his professional teaching career working in Alternative Education and Youth Justice settings. He was the inaugural principal of the school at the Oranga Tamariki Residences Korowai Manaaki and Whakatakapokai. He became a Vodafone World of Difference Fellow in 2015.