Browsing by Author "Wright, Noeline"

• Baring some essentials: boys' achievement, ERO and leadership. 

  Wright, Noeline (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2000)

  This article identifies some popular concerns about boys' achievement, and concerns raised by researchers. The Education Review Office report on the achievement of boys is critiqued in relation to the role masculinities ...

  

• Building literacy communities of practice across subject disciplines in secondary schools 

  Wright, Noeline (Multilingual Matters, 2007)

  This paper examines the relationship between communities of practice and literacy as a pedagogical focus in secondary schools in New Zealand in the light of Corson's arguments about critical conditions for effective language ...

  

• A case for adapting and applying continuance theory to education: Understanding the role of student feedback in motivating teachers to persist with including digital technologies in learning 

  Wright, Noeline (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015)

  In New Zealand schools, the adoption and persistent use of digital tools to aid learning is a growing but uneven, trend, often linked to the practices of early adopters and/or robust wifi infrastructure. The Technology ...

  

• Continuance theory and teacher education 

  Wright, Noeline (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2012)

  Continuance theory is usually related to the regular use of technology in the business/industry area. It attempts to explain why people either continue to use specific technologies in their work, or not. Essentially, it ...

  

• COWpads: Sharing iPads in a range of secondary school classrooms 

  Wright, Noeline; Cook, Mervyn; Collett, Sarah; Rinsma, Ingrid (2013)

  This article outlines a mid-point snapshot of the progress of a small teaching-as-inquiry project at Hillcrest High School in 2013. Three teachers (music, mathematics, French) volunteered to focus on using iPads in a COW ...

  

• Statutory intervention: perceptions of New Zealand primary school principals and their experiences 

  Cook, Sheralyn Fiona (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Each year, a small number of New Zealand schools are identified as underperforming and require external leadership assistance, usually from the Ministry of Education. This support is implemented through a statutory ...

  

• Factors affecting the teaching and learning of English in a blended learning environment in a Vietnamese university 

  Tran, Le Thu Ha (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  The adoption of blended learning solutions in higher education has increased significantly over some years in many developing countries, including Vietnam. While blended learning has been well-researched in Western countries ...

  

• Investigating children's participation in decision-making in New Zealand primary schools: Participation, pathways and potential. 

  Smith, Alison Ann (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  The notion of children and young people participating in a school’s decision-making processes has been the topic of much research and writing throughout the Western world since the 1980s. Existing research has included ...

  

• Ko e Fungani Mo'onia 'o e Faiako Ma'a Tonga: Understanding the professional attitudes of the valued teachers of Tonga 

  Tapa'atoutai-Teisina, Sela (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  The purpose of this study is to help provide empirically informed insights as to how the Tongan Government teachers’ positive attitudes could be developed and enhanced. In Tonga, the erosion of teacher attitudes, commitment, ...

  

• Women's leadership as a symbolic act of reproduction: A case study in the Solomon Islands 

  Maezama, Susanne Gasepelo (University of Waikato, 2016)

  Literature on women’s leadership over the last three decades suggests that women’s leadership perspectives have been predominantly influenced by either Euro-centric patriarchal views or those of women in economically ...

  

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