Browsing by Author "Locke, Terry"

• 13 ways of looking at a poem: How discourses of reading shape pedagogical practice in English. 

  Locke, Terry (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2003)

  Different discourses of reading construct differing ways of reading texts. This article illustrates such differences by showing how three contrasting ways of interrogating a literary text arise from three contrasting ...

  

• Beyond shrek: fairy tale magic in the multicultural classroom 

  Sturgess, Janet; Locke, Terry (Routledge, 2009)

  This article draws on a recent research project in New Zealand on teaching literature in the multicultural classroom. Its focus is on how one teacher-researcher used the cultural and linguistic diversity of a junior, ...

• Book review: "A Tingling Catch": A century of NZ cricket poems 1864-2009. 

  Locke, Terry (New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, 2011)

  The article reviews the book "A Tingling Catch: A Century of NZ Cricket Poems 1864-2009," edited by Mark Pirie.

  

• Book review: Dear Sweet Harry 

  Locke, Terry (2010)

  This article reviews the book: “Dear Sweet Harry”, by Lynn Jenner.

  

• Book review: Shift 

  Locke, Terry (New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, 2011)

  The article reviews the book "Shift," by Rhian Gallagher.

  

• Discursive positioning in theory and practice: a case for narrative mediation 

  Winslade, John (The University of Waikato, 2003)

  This is a study of the usefulness of the concept of ‘discursive positioning’ in the practice of mediation and in the analysis of what happens in mediation. Mediation, as typically practised, has developed within the general ...

  

• Exploring the beliefs and practices of first year teachers of literacy in New Zealand primary schools 

  Carss, Wendy Diane (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  The teaching of literacy presents ongoing and complex challenges for first-year teachers at the primary level as they strive to address the diverse social and cultural backgrounds of their students, the requirements of ...

  

• Brokering practices among international EAL students at a New Zealand university 

  Lee, Sherrie (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  The numbers of international students enrolled in higher education in Anglophone countries have increased in the past decade, with the majority of students originating from Asian countries such as China. While it is in the ...

  

• Secondary education expansion in Tanzania: Policy and practice implications for teachers’ sense of efficacy 

  Lawrent, Godlove (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Since the introduction of Tanzania’s secondary education expansion policy in 2004 student performance has declined significantly. This trend led me to hypothesise that there may have been a decline in teacher efficacy. The ...

  

• The writing of assignments in a pre-service primary education programme: Student and staff perspectives 

  Gera, Christina Mary (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  The writing of assignments by tertiary students is an area that merits exploration due to the high stakes involved for students, staff and institutions. Generally, in order for students to pass courses, they need to write ...

  

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