Browsing by Author "Alcorn, Noeline"

• Ethical issues in collaborative action research 

  Locke, Terry; Alcorn, Noeline; O’Neill, John (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

  This article begins by raising issues around the way in which ethical approval for research is managed in university settings, where committees often base their assumptions on a principlist approach making a number of ...

• Evidence and education: The braided roles of research, policy and practice in New Zealand 

  Alcorn, Noeline (NZCER Press, 2008)

  Calls for educational policy and practice to be evidence-based have become insistent, yet there is ongoing contestation of the purpose and value of educational research. This paper addresses criticism of research from ...

  

• Keeping things on track: School principals as managers 

  Earl Rinehart, (Suzanne) Kerry; Alcorn, Noeline (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019)

  Literature about education in New Zealand and internationally over the past 30 years has increasingly focused on the need for effective school leadership. In New Zea- land a major Best Evidence Synthesis study (BES 2009) ...

  

• Knowledge through a collaborative network: a cross-cultural partnership 

  Alcorn, Noeline (Routledge, 2010)

  A recurring issue for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners is how new knowledge can be disseminated, critiqued, assessed and incorporated into policy development and practice. Campbell and Fulford examined strategies ...

• Meat in the sandwich: The impact of changing policy contexts and local management of schools on principals’ work in New Zealand 1989-2009 

  Alcorn, Noeline (Massey University, 2011)

  The impact of principal leadership on school outcomes, particularly student achievement, is assuming unprecedented attention internationally. Official discourses often assume that principals can be trained to achieve ...

  

• Principals’ partnerships: an action research study on the professional development of New Zealand school leaders 

  Robertson, Jan (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 

  Townsend, Frances Mary (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 

  Sikua, David Derek (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 

  De Four-Babb, Joyanne (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 

  Earl Rinehart, (Suzanne) Kerry (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, ...

  

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