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(Peter Lang Publishing, 2006)The invitation to contribute to this volume addressed me as a New Zealander who had written about how Sylvia Ashton-Warner's fantasies, theories, imagery, and life-history narratives threaded their way through my own. I ... -
(2010)First electronics courses are considered difficult by students because of the circuit theory content, and retention of students in electronics is a problem worldwide. Retention is especially problematic at universities ... -
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)Student-centred curriculum integration (CI) is a concept underpinned by democratic education. It places students at the centre of learning, involving them in classroom decisions and curriculum planning. Most research on ...
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(2007)The author discusses the benefits of attending conferences for physical education teachers. It is noted that within and outside of the teaching profession physical educators are sometimes not viewed as teachers and the ... -
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2004)The importance of giving both evaluative and descriptive feedback to improve learning and achievement has been confirmed through research. This paper draws on assessment and feedback research to interrogate the evidence ... -
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2001)This paper examines the concept of in loco parentis in the light of its legal origins and considers its relevance to contemporary schooling, particularly the professional responsibilities of teachers. It is argued that ... -
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)In the territory of violence and despair, hope is rare. Recent work on hope has shifted attention from hope as a feeling to hope as a practice that people can do together. This case report of a family exposed to domestic ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2009)This article undertakes a discursive analysis of the concepts of 'inclusion' and 'mastery' using memory stories generated in a collective biography workshop. The five authors analysed their memories from childhood and ...
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(2011)This paper discusses key issues raised by indigenous peoples during CONFINTEA VI and proposes strategies to enable them to participate in ongoing processes. Indigenous peoples are not involved in the design, implementation ...
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(2003)This introduction to a special issue of Comparative Education focuses on current issues and developments in both the theory and practice of indigenous education from around the world.
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(2011)New Zealand students in the middle and upper school achieve better results in reading than they do in writing. This claim is evident in national assessment data reporting on students’ literacy achievement. Research findings ... -
(2009)Intention: This study focused on questions of whether and how clients benefit from supervision. As practitioner research, the study was intended to shape the researchers' own supervision practice. Method: The qualitative ...
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(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2010)New Zealand teacher educators are faced with the challenge of how to prepare their student teachers to become beginning teachers who are able to base their teaching upon the national curriculum. To meet this challenge, ... -
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2001)This paper is in two parts. First, I will survey some of the major international curriculum scholarship and influences upon New Zealand school curriculum. Second, having provided this broad survey, I will move closer to ... -
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)In 1998, 12 elementary school students aged 11–12 years, who were living in a disadvantaged suburb in a New Zealand city, were comprehensively assessed and determinations were made regarding their risk statuses. Ten years ...
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(NZCER press, 2012)Ethics is a valuable way to approach science in primary school because grappling with ethical issues engages students. Focusing on ethics encourages students to extend their understanding of scientific concepts as it is ...
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(2012)An ongoing challenge in classroom research is to understand children’s perspectives on their learning. While learning is highly individual, it is also significantly social and this raises methodological challenges. An ...
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(Asia-Pacific Forumon Science Learning and Teaching, 2002)We report on the design and outcomes of an intervention teaching program that was implemented in a tertiary physics class in Taiwan. By providing the students with context-rich questions and sufficient time for thinking ...
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(2010)The article discusses the incorporation of futures thinking in science education programmes in New Zealand. The flexibility of exploring components of the futures thinking model allows for the selection of activities to ... -
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2012)This special issue of the Waikato Journal of Education offers three thought provoking examinations of recent research relevant to early childhood education (ECE) policy. These range from a big picture view of the changing ...
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