Browsing by Author "Strachan, Jane"

• Editorial 

  Strachan, Jane; Wright, Noeline (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2011)

  An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the sustainability of organisational changes for diploma programmes, the development of Preparation for Tertiary ...

  

• Editorial: Pacific education: research and practice. 

  Strachan, Jane (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2006)

  The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one by Tanya Wendt Samu on the call for teachers to be responsive to the diversities between group of learners as well as within groups of learners ...

  

• Educational leadership…. 

  Strachan, Jane; Robertson, Jan (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2000)

  An introduction is presented in which it discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the implications for leadership training, the exclusionary practices of educational leadership, and the standards for ...

  

• Researching in cross cultural contexts: a socially just process. 

  McNae, Rachel Elizabeth; Strachan, Jane (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2010)

  In this paper, we explore culture and its relationship to cross cultural research. The context for this research is Vanuatu, a small South Pacific Island nation. The action research process used was a collaboration between ...

  

• Sustaining organisational change: Teacher education in the Solomon Islands. 

  Strachan, Jane; Maezama, Susanne; Simi, Janine (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2011)

  "Sustainability is the capacity of education reform initiatives to continue" (Webster, Silova, Moyer, & McAllister, 2011, para. 12). In this article we reflect upon the process of organisational strengthening that was a ...

  

• The development of a middle school 

  Ward, Richard (The University of Waikato, 2001)

  One of the effects of the 1989 Education Act in New Zealand was to allow schools to broaden their client base. This had the most significant impact in the area of schooling where there was the greatest possibility for ...

  

• Embodied ways of knowing: women’s solo contemporary dance in Aotearoa, New Zealand 

  Barbour, Karen (The University of Waikato, 2002)

  Feminists have offered critiques of dominant dualist Western ‘knowledge’ and epistemology, arguing that such knowledge is oppressive to women. Acceptance of reasoning as the only way to ‘knowledge’, ‘somatophobic’ privileging ...

  

• The leadership practices of Anglican school leaders in the Solomon Islands: leading for social justice 

  Memua, James (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  The political, economic, social, cultural and religious characteristics of the communities shape how school leaders undertake social justice leadership practices. Leading to address injustices which stem from these ...

  

• An exploration of issues for effective home-school communication strategies with Asian immigrant parents 

  Gilby, Karen Lynette Douglas (University of Waikato, 2012)

  The far-reaching effects of 21st century globalisation have meant that schools are facing an increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse parent community, a situation which presents educators with both opportunities ...

  

• The Perceptions of Beginning Secondary Teachers about their Professional Learning Experiences in the Solomon Islands Context 

  Rodie, Patricia (University of Waikato, 2011)

  This thesis was designed to investigate the professional learning experiences of beginning secondary teachers (BSTs) in the Solomon Islands context. The study sought to interpret and document the lived experiences of a ...

  

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