Browsing by Supervisor "McGee, Clive"
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Designing a teacher development programme to enhance the teaching of higher order thinking and conceptual understanding in primary school social studies
(The University of Waikato, 1998)While higher order thinking has always been regarded as an essential component of social studies education, personal observations over a number of years and the findings of a survey which examined New Zealand social studies ... -
The development of multiplicative thinking and proportional reasoning: Models of conceptual learning and transfer
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis considers the development of multiplicative thinking and proportional reasoning from two perspectives. Firstly, it examines the research literature on progressions in conceptual understanding to create a ... -
Effective Pākehā teachers of Māori Students
(University of Waikato, 2013)To teach in primary schools in Aotearoa-New Zealand means to encounter students from diverse backgrounds. A significant proportion of those students are Māori and a significant proportion of Māori students are not achieving ... -
Hearing their voices: The perceptions of children and adults about learning in health education
(The University of Waikato, 2003)Children were the central focus of this study which was grounded in a belief that children’s voices should be listened to and heard, in particular about their perceptions about their health and health education in schools. ... -
Partners in problem solving children collaborating in pairs
(The University of Waikato, 1998)The extent to which children’s collaborations with their peers affects their learning is an area which merits scrutiny due to the complexities of such collaborations, the nature of the tasks children focus on, and the ... -
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 ... -
Summative Assessment Practices of Solomon Islands Year Nine Science Teachers
(University of Waikato, 2014)The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the perceptions, experiences, and practices of six Solomon Islands secondary science teachers, based on the types of assessment they use in their science classrooms to ... -
Take five - stay alive: the development and implementation of a classroom-based driver education programme for adolescents
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This study was an outcome from a head on collision involving the researcher, which resulted in the death of an adolescent motorcyclist. It describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an original driver ... -
Teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of the Whānau Rūmaki teacher education programme, 1990-1992
(University of Waikato, 1997)In 1990 the School of Education, the University of Waikato, initiated a special option within its regular pre-service teacher training programmes, an option designed to prepare teachers to deliver the New Zealand curriculum ... -
Working across cultures in indigenous science education
(University of Waikato, 2011)The research in this thesis considers the ability of westerners, primarily teachers, to work cross-culturally with indigenous students in four of the settler states, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. It looks ...
