Browsing by Degree Name "Doctor of Education (EdD)"
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A culture for science in early childhood education: Where cultures meet cultures
(University of Waikato, 2016)In recent years there has been an increase in literature advocating for and describing early childhood science education; however, little attention has been given to the complex interplay of cultural communities of practice ... -
Agency as dynamic and rhizomatic: An exploration of learner identities in two secondary classrooms
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis is premised on “a politics of becoming” (Gowlett, 2013, p. 149), a Deleuzo-Guattarian notion which speaks to social justice research. Rather than a focus on reductionist reformist politics, I explore moments ... -
Carrying Out a Practical Investigation:The Student-Experienced Curriculum
(The University of Waikato, 2006)Assessment of student learning for qualifications has long been contentious, particularly the reliability and validity of various assessment methods and the impact of assessment on the nature of student learning. There ... -
Climate strike experiences: Youth voice informing secondary schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Youth voices led the climate strikes of 2019 and motivated millions to take to the street and demand climate action. Aotearoa New Zealand is experiencing more frequent and devastating weather events such as flooding, ... -
Coaching and the Growth of Three New Zealand Educators: a Multi-dimensional Journey
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This qualitative research project began with the question of whether coaching assists the growth and development of educators in the multiple dimensions of the spiritual, emotional, social and conceptual/intellectual. The ... -
Discourse, Narrative and Agency: A Contribution of Local Stories to Disability Theory, Research and Professional Practice
(University of Waikato, 2011)The impetus for this study arose from a realisation that the post-structural concept of agency was relevant to disability studies. In locating this study as a contribution to the knowledge of disability and disablement, ... -
Discursive dissonance: Critical reflexivity for counselling supervision
(University of Waikato, 2011)When practitioners and supervisors do not share the same counselling language or theoretical orientation, how is shared meaning achieved and relational connection sustained in supervision? How are differences in theoretical ... -
Educational leadership for international partnerships between New Zealand and east Asian Chinese higher education institutions
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This study examines how higher education leaders in different socio-cultural contexts are involved in the practice of distributed leadership in international partnerships. This study employs socio-cultural theorising to ... -
Fa’afatāmanu talafeagai mo lesona fa’asaienisi: O le tu’ualalo mo a’oga a faia’oga saienisi fa’aōliōli. A culturally appropriate formative assessment in science lessons: Implications for initial science teacher education.
(University of Waikato, 2011)This study set out to find the views of Samoan teachers on formative assessment and to document any cultural aspects of the fa’aSamoa (or Samoan culture) that could hinder the use of formative assessment in science classrooms. ... -
Footprints: Participant perspectives informing pedagogy for asynchronous online discussion in initial teacher education
(University of Waikato, 2012)This study looks at how students and staff experience asynchronous online discussion (AOD) within initial teacher education. The aim is to explore participant perspectives, including expectations of fellow participants, ... -
Heteronormativity and early childhood education: Social justice and some puzzling queries.
(The University of Waikato, 2008)This thesis investigated the discursive production of heteronormativity in the historical and present day contexts of early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand. A Foucauldian genealogical investigation of early ... -
The Influence of Fibre Processing and Treatments on Hemp Fibre/Epoxy and Hemp Fibre/PLA Composites
(The University of Waikato, 2008)In recent years, due to growing environmental awareness, considerable attention has been given to the development and production of natural fibre reinforced polymer (both thermoset and thermoplastic) composites. The main ... -
Investigating children's participation in decision-making in New Zealand primary schools: Participation, pathways and potential.
(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 ... -
Kei hea ahau ināianai? Where am I now? An examination of the positioning of disabled children in the discourses of long-day early childhood education and care centres in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2021)In Aotearoa New Zealand’s legislative and policy environment the concept of inclusion for disabled children is positioned as a human rights concern in which all children are afforded the right to attend and participate in ... -
Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This thesis focuses on reversing language shift (RLS) efforts via the revernacularisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language) in Te Amokura Kōhanga Reo (Māori language nest). J. Fishman’s (2001a) graded intergenerational ... -
Operant Methodology Out Of The Lab and Applied To Enrichment With Captive Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)
(The University of Waikato, 2008)A group of socially-housed chimpanzees, maintained in a zoo facility, were given the opportunity to access each of several purpose-designed and built enrichment items. Each item was made freely available in the chimpanzees' ... -
Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
(University of Waikato, 2010)The challenges of achieving the potential, which the Treaty of Waitangi offers for a postcolonial present and future, have shaped life in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last four decades. This thesis draws on this history ... -
Primary school physical education: Professional learning as a partnership between a specialist and generalists
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The quality of physical education (PE) lessons delivered by generalist primary school teachers is recognised across the literature as inadequate. As a secondary PE teacher, I became acutely aware of the challenges faced ... -
Programme design practice in a polytechnic in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A case for complexity
(University of Waikato, 2011)A programme is an instrument for education. Through educational programmes we help shape our society. Programme design includes decisions on what society finds valuable for people to learn, and how this should be structured ... -
Statutory intervention: perceptions of New Zealand primary school principals and their experiences
(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 ...
