The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the fifth episode of the third series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with David Ferguson, Headmaster of Westlake Boys High School. David has been Headmaster at Westlake Boys' High School since 2010. Westlake Boys' High School currently has 2400 boys on it’s roll, making it one of New Zealand’s biggest schools. Originally from the UK, David has been in New Zealand for 17 years now. He has been an educator for 27 years and has worked in boys’ schools for the whole of his career. David is Chairman of the Association of Boys’ Schools of New Zealand, and a Board member of the International Boys’ Schools Coalition as well as being Deputy Chairman of College Sport, Auckland. In this episode, he speaks about changing conceptions of masculinity, the centrality of character to his students' education, and the Māori concept of mana.
The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at gamechangers@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
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