Browsing by Author "Alcorn, Noeline"
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Principals’ partnerships: an action research study on the professional development of New Zealand school leaders
(The University of Waikato, 1995)This report describes an action research study conducted between 1992 and 1995 with 12 New Zealand primary school principals. Prior to this study, major administrative changes in the education system in New Zealand had ... -
The principal as learner: perceptions, beliefs and experiences of nineteen New Zealand principals
(The University of Waikato, 1999)The research began with a personal question about how one learnt educational management. The research participants consisted of 19 principals who were selected on the basis of distribution between primary, secondary, male ... -
The decentralisation of education in a developing country: the case of community high schools in Solomon Islands
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This study was undertaken to investigate the decentralisation of education through the establishment of Community High Schools (CHSs) in a developing country - Solomon Islands. The study examines, in particular, the local ... -
Talk yuh talk: making sense of how graduate secondary teachers in Trinidad learned to teach without pre-service teacher education
(The University of Waikato, 2003)In Trinidad and Tobago graduate secondary teachers begin teaching with subject degrees, but without pre-service teacher training. How, then, do these people come to see themselves as teachers? How do they learn how to ... -
Judging What They Do: Formal, Informal, and Self Appraisal of New Zealand (Rural) Primary School Principals
(The University of Waikato, 2017)As in other western market economies, New Zealand government education policy reflects neoliberal economic thinking, neo-conservative ideals and practices of an audit culture. New Zealand’s self-managing schools’ policy, ...