• 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 ...

  

• 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 ...

  

• Teachers: Having a Voice and Being Heard? Evidence from Two Private Schools in Nepal 

  Sharma Poudyal, Chandra Lal (University of Waikato, 2016)

  Profit-oriented private schools in Nepal are usually owned and managed by those people who put money into schools. In such private schools, owners are usually the principals, and schools’ administration is run according ...

  

• Understanding Teacher Educators' Pedagogical and Technological Cultural Habitus (PATCH): An Ethnographic Study in the Maldives 

  Adam, Aminath Shafiya (University of Waikato, 2015)

  A substantial body of literature discusses the complexity of integrating technology in teachers’ pedagogical practices (Mishra & Koehler, 2006). The literature over the last two decades, specifically suggests that teachers ...

  

• Mediational engagement in E-learning: An Activity Theory analysis 

  Pahala Gedera, Dilani Sampath (University of Waikato, 2014)

  The emergence of educational technologies offers flexible learning opportunities to students. However, the nature of the online learning environment can lead to disengagement and subsequent minimal participation, which ...

  

• Understanding Socio-Cultural and Organisational Constraints on Women's Leadership: A Case Study in Indonesian Higher Education 

  Amalo, Elizabeth Anggraeni (University of Waikato, 2014)

  In Indonesia, especially in Java, in a range of time, the numbers of women occupying senior leadership positions in state higher institutions are low. My experiences working in such institutions supported this phenomenon. ...

  

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