Browsing by Author "Thrupp, Martin"

• At the eye of the storm: Researching schools and their communities enacting National Standards. 2013 Herbison Lecture 

  Thrupp, Martin (NZARE, 2014)

  It is with enormous pleasure that I deliver the 24th Herbison Lecture. I thank the NZARE Council for inviting me and I acknowledge those in the audience who have previously given the Herbison. Today I'm talking about my ...

  

• Book review: Critical dispositions: Evidence and expertise in education 

  Delamont, Sara; Thrupp, Martin; Reynolds, David (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

  This article reviews the book “Critical dispositions: Evidence and expertise in education” edited by Greg Dimitriadis.

• Book Review: The globalisation of school choice 

  Thrupp, Martin (2010)

  This article reviews the book “The globalisation of school choice?” edited by Martin Forsey, Scott Davies and Geoffrey Walford.

• Education ‘inconvenient truth’: Part one- Persistent middle class advantage 

  Thrupp, Martin (New Zealand Journal of Teacher's Work, 2007)

  As a policy sociologist I have long been drawn to uncomfortable questions about whose interests are really being served in and through education (Thrupp, 1999a). I’ve been interested in how developments in education policy ...

  

• Education's 'inconvenient truth': persistent middle class advantage. 

  Thrupp, Martin (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2007)

  This Inaugural Professorial Address explores how schooling is geared to the concerns and interests of the middle classes. It begins by discussing the likely advantages provided by predominantly middle class school settings ...

  

• 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 ...

  

• Inclusive education for children and young people with disabilities in Uzbekistan: The perspectives and experiences of key players 

  Nam, Galina (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  This thesis explored the educational conditions for children with disabilities in Uzbekistan and the current development stage of inclusive education there. Of particular interest was how various groups perceived and ...

  

• Professional learning in a Vietnamese university language teaching context: An inquiry-driven approach 

  Phan, Thy Canh Minh (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  This study investigated the engagement in an inquiry process of six EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers from two Vietnamese universities, and how the inquiry process shaped the teachers’ professional learning, ...

  

• South African boys in New Zealand: Immigrants' retrospective accounts of adapting to life in a new country during adolescence 

  White, Teswell Terrence (University of Waikato, 2016)

  It is now estimated that around 50 million displaced persons (highest number since the end of World War 2), and as many as 10 million are ‘on the move’ between countries at the present time. Mass migration is now undoubtedly ...

  

• Problematised History Pedagogy as Narrative Research: Self-Fashioning, Dismantled Voices and Reimaginings in History Education 

  Hunter, Philippa Anne (University of Waikato, 2013)

  A growing disturbance with history’s identity in the New Zealand schooling curriculum disrupted my educational socialisation (curriculum, professional, academic) and inheritance of educational policy decisions. In turn, ...

  

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