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For further information on these papers/publications, contact: John McKenzie
"Crime and Punishment: Are criminals more sinned against than sinners? Performing Alfred Noyes' 'The Highwayman'." Paper presented to Learning Through the Arts conference, July, 2006. Talespinner No. 22 September 2006.
"Negotiating Safer Passages in Troubled Waters: Shifting paradigms in
representing culture and cultural authenticity." Paper presented at
ACLAR, Melbourne,
July 2006.
"Creation Stories: Ideology and the picture book." Workshop presented to
SLANZA Professional Day, Christchurch, June 2006.
"The Power of Imagery: Exploring a wolfish appetite for the dark side of
children's literature" Paper presented to Storylines Festival Heritage
Hotel Series in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch), June 2006. To be
published in The Inside Story, Auckland: Children's Literature
Foundation, 2006.
"Some Operations of Truth: A personal response to Margaret Mahy's The
Haunting." A paper presented to the Christchurch City Libraries'
symposium celebrating Margaret Mahy, June 2006
"Bums, Poos and Wees: Carnivalesque spaces in the picture books of early
childhood. Or has literature gone to the dogs?" English Teaching.
Practice and Critique. Vol 4 No.1.
"Librarians as Life-Long Learners: What local research has to offer."
Paper presented to South Island Children's Librarian's Seminar, Timaru.
March 2005.
Early Childhood and Children's Responses to Literature (Four Study
Guides) Christchurch College of Education, 2005.
“Are Adults (English Teachers) visually challenged? An exploration of Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing.” English in Aotearoa, August 2004.
“Surprising Moments: The interface between the book and technology.” Paper presented to IBBY World Congress, Capetown, SA, 2004.
“Subjectivity, agency and new genres of Story: Lessons form Middle Earth” Paper presented to ACLAR, Sydney, Australia 2004-08-04.
Book Selection in Children's Literature (4 Study Guides) Christchurch College of Education, 2004.
“ Integrating the NZ Book Awards and the NZ Curriculum.” Unleash Their Imaginations: Resource Kit. Wellington: NZ Book Sellers' Association, 2004.
McKenzie, J & Darnell, D. The Magic Book: a report into augmented reality storytelling in the context of a children's workshop. Christchurch: UltraLab (for the Ministry of Education) 2003.
“Reading as a Performance: a study of Holden's The Peace Star, Thompson's Paradise Garden and Fleischman's Weslandia in the context of the garden as a literary trope.” Paper presented to South African Children's Literature Conference, Pochefstroom, SA. 2003.
McKenzie, J. Darnell, D. & Smith, A. Cinderella Transformed: Multiple voices and diverse dialogues in children's literature. Christchurch: Christchurch College of Education, 2003 (Proceedings of ACLAR, 2001).
“Picture Books and the Journey of Faith.” Paper presented to the Anglican School's Conference, Hamilton, 2003.
“Picture Books for Adolescents: an annotated bibliography.” Paper presented to NZATE Annual Conference, July 2003.
“Politics, Playfulness and Performance in Paul Fleischman's Weslandia and Colin Thompson's Paradise Garden.” Paper presented to ACLAR, Brisbane, Australia, 2002 and New Zealand Reading Association's Annual Conference, July 2002.
“The Wacky and the Wise: negotiating the folktale.” Paper presented to the Auckland Reading Association, March 2002 and NZATE Annual Conference, Christchurch, July 2002. Published in Talespinner, No. 14 Sep. 2002.
“Crossing the Boundaries: The representation of youth suicide in adolescent fiction.” Anstey, M & Bull, G. (ed) Crossing the Boundaries. Sydney: Pearson Education (Ltd) 2002.
“The Spectator Gaze and the Other in Gavin Bishop's Tom Thumb.” Paper presented at the Book Launch. Later published in Talespinner No. 13 May 2002 and English in Aotearoa (New Zealand Association of Teachers of English), June 2002.
“The Representation of Youth Suicide in Adolescent Fiction.” Paper presented to the International Association of School Librarians (IASL), Auckland, May 2001.
Performance in Children's Literature (Three Study Guides) CCE, 2001.
“NZ Reading: Simply the Best? Or, reading in spite of the system.” Paper presented to the Canterbury Reading Association. June 2000. Submission to Select Committee Inquiry into the Teaching of Reading, NZ Parliament, 2000.
“Conversations: Responses to William Taylor's Jerome.” Talespinner No. 9 May 2000.