Browsing by Supervisor "Alcorn, Noeline"
Now showing items 1-12 of 12
-
Creating an Effective Learning Culture in a New School
(University of Waikato, 2013)The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of the Principal and staff during the establishment of a new school, to understand the development of a learning culture and to examine the tensions for leadership. ... -
Distributed forms of school leadership: A critical and sociological analysis
(University of Waikato, 2012)Distributed leadership is a free-floating concept that has come to prominence in the education field. Policy-makers, researchers and practitioners alike tout it as the mode of leadership suitable for twenty-first century ... -
Judging What They Do: Formal, Informal, and Self Appraisal of New Zealand (Rural) Primary School Principals
(The University of Waikato, 2017)As in other western market economies, New Zealand government education policy reflects neoliberal economic thinking, neo-conservative ideals and practices of an audit culture. New Zealand’s self-managing schools’ policy, ... -
Principals’ partnerships: an action research study on the professional development of New Zealand school leaders
(The University of Waikato, 1995)This report describes an action research study conducted between 1992 and 1995 with 12 New Zealand primary school principals. Prior to this study, major administrative changes in the education system in New Zealand had ... -
School-based placement in a distance intial teacher education programme
(University of Waikato, 2011)School-based experiences provide opportunities and challenges for student teachers and teacher-educators in initial teacher education (ITE). Researchers and ITE providers highlight school-based experiences as occasions for ... -
Spirituality in principal leadership and its influence on teachers and teaching
(University of Waikato, 2011)Spirituality in educational leadership has received renewed interest in the past decade. A growing body of literature claims that spirituality can make a difference in leadership practice. Spirituality is a complex and ... -
Talk yuh talk: making sense of how graduate secondary teachers in Trinidad learned to teach without pre-service teacher education
(The University of Waikato, 2003)In Trinidad and Tobago graduate secondary teachers begin teaching with subject degrees, but without pre-service teacher training. How, then, do these people come to see themselves as teachers? How do they learn how to ... -
The decentralisation of education in a developing country: the case of community high schools in Solomon Islands
(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 ... -
The Orff approach in the professional lives and practices of teachers in the Aotearoa/New Zealand school context
(University of Waikato, 2016)This doctoral research investigated issues concerned with the application of the Orff approach to music education in the Aotearoa New Zealand school context. The author brought to the study an in-depth knowledge of the ... -
The principal as learner: perceptions, beliefs and experiences of nineteen New Zealand principals
(The University of Waikato, 1999)The research began with a personal question about how one learnt educational management. The research participants consisted of 19 principals who were selected on the basis of distribution between primary, secondary, male ... -
Understanding Socio-Cultural and Organisational Constraints on Women's Leadership: A Case Study in Indonesian Higher Education
(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. ... -
Young women and leadership development: Co-constructing leadership learning in a New Zealand secondary school.
(University of Waikato, 2011)Young women’s leadership is an area frequently overlooked in educational leadership development. When it is addressed, it is often done so from the perspective of adults resulting in planned learning opportunities being ...