Browsing by Supervisor "Thrupp, Martin"
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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 ... -
How is teacher evaluation policy enacted?-The workings of performativity and micro-politics in Japanese schools
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis is concerned with the extent to which new teacher evaluation policies and practices in Japan are about controlling teachers or represent opportunities for authentic professional development. It seeks to examine ... -
Problematised History Pedagogy as Narrative Research: Self-Fashioning, Dismantled Voices and Reimaginings in History Education
(University of Waikato, 2013)A growing disturbance with history’s identity in the New Zealand schooling curriculum disrupted my educational socialisation (curriculum, professional, academic) and inheritance of educational policy decisions. In turn, ... -
South African boys in New Zealand: Immigrants' retrospective accounts of adapting to life in a new country during adolescence
(University of Waikato, 2016)It is now estimated that around 50 million displaced persons (highest number since the end of World War 2), and as many as 10 million are ‘on the move’ between countries at the present time. Mass migration is now undoubtedly ...
