Daring to Be Different: The Rise and Fall of Auckland Metropolitan College
Karen Vaughan "Metro", the only state-funded alternative high school in New Zealand, was closed after eight critical ERO reports, sparking questions about its role and schooling today.
Beyond the Age of Aquarius
Karen Vaughan Alternative schools and initiatives from the 1960s, 1970s, and contemporary times have been reinvented as individual pathways.
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Doing Ethnographic Research
Karen Vaughan This academic methodology paper explores disturbing aspects of research on the only state-funded alternative secondary school in New Zealand.