Browsing by Author "Daly, Nicola"
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Audiences, referees, and landscapes: Understanding the use of Māori and English in New Zealand dual language picturebooks through a sociolinguistic lens
(Victoria University Press, 2017)When non-dominant perspectives are represented in children's literature, it is labelled multicultural, and this form of literature has much potential for altering existing power structures in society. Bishop (1990) first ... -
Cross Continental Readings of Visual Narratives: An analysis of Six Books in the New Zealand PictureBook Collection
(2015)This article argues that, by analyzing the ways in which illustrators use certain visual codes, we can learn much about a country's history/culture and demonstrates this by analyzing the visual narratives of six picture ... -
Editorial: Striving for social justice: The power that picturebooks have to counter inequitable cultural hegemony
(2022)Children’s literature has a long association with education. It has transmitted cultural values to readers over many centuries, often reflecting dominant identities and cultures of the time. Picturebooks, a specific format ... -
Exploring Pacific picturebooks to support the language, culture and identity of Pasifika children. A summer scholar’s perspective
(2021)Populations of Pacific People in Aotearoa New Zealand are growing, and many education documents recognise the need to support the language, culture and identity of children from these communities in educational settings. In ... -
"It inspires and motivates you to do something that makes a difference": Transformational education experiences and global citizenry in a tertiary travel award
(University of Waikato, 2019)Literature shows that international travel as part of tertiary studies can result in transformational learning and increased global citizenry. There is a growing body of research in this field but most has focused on study ...
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Children’s negotiation of meanings about geometric shapes and their properties in a New Zealand multilingual primary classroom
(The University of Waikato, 2022)New Zealand is a nation of superdiversity in terms of ethnicities and languages spoken. This superdiversity is reflected in New Zealand multilingual classrooms. In the New Zealand primary school mathematics curriculum, the ... -
Negotiating fairness and diversity: Stories from an Aotearoa New Zealand kindergarten
(The University of Waikato, 2018)A number of research studies have utilised ‘working theories’, a key learning outcome of Te Whāriki, the Aotearoa New Zealand curriculum, as a lens to explore pedagogy in early childhood education. The perceived gap that ... -
Oceanic languages: A comparative investigation of pre-clausal constructions
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis presents an investigation of pre-clausal phenomena in the lesser-studied languages of the Oceanic language family. The study is innovative in that the pre-clausal structure of interest, hereinafter labelled as ... -
Year 7 and 8 Teachers' Understandings, Beliefs and Practices around the Teaching of Grammar in Relation to the Teaching of Writing
(University of Waikato, 2016)In recent times, and in fact over the past five decades, the importance of teachers’ knowledge of grammar and the teaching of grammar has encountered a resurgence of interest on the world stage as it has done within the ... -
The Effects of a Shared Reading Intervention on the English Reading Skills of Year One Students in a Level Two Māori-medium Educational Context
(University of Waikato, 2014)One of the biggest challenges confronting literacy education in Aotearoa New Zealand is accommodating the differences in English reading-related variables at school entry to produce equitable outcomes in later reading ...
