Browsing by Supervisor "Petrie, Kirsten Culhane"
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Developing Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education: The Contextualised Appropriation of Sport Education
(University of Waikato, 2015)Social and emotional learning (SEL) is increasingly recognised as beneficial for students’ mental health and academic learning. Despite the growing SEL research in general education, SEL remains largely under-explored and ... -
Netball in the lives of New Zealand Women: An Intergenerational Study
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis explores the netball experiences of a selection of New Zealand women whom have participated or continue to participate in netball during four distinct historical periods. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, ... -
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 ... -
Secondary education expansion in Tanzania: Policy and practice implications for teachers’ sense of efficacy
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Since the introduction of Tanzania’s secondary education expansion policy in 2004 student performance has declined significantly. This trend led me to hypothesise that there may have been a decline in teacher efficacy. The ... -
Young Maori males experiences in a secondary school context as sporting, academic and cultural identities.
(University of Waikato, 2016)This research focused on the journey of male Māori through secondary school and the effect on their identities in terms of sport, culture and academia. The two key areas of focus were how the culture of the school, including ... -
Youth sport in Trinidad and Tobago: Extending the possibilities and pathways for post-secondary school participation
(University of Waikato, 2016)Sport in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) emerged out of centuries of occupation by different colonisers becoming more entrenched through the influences of the British. Continued but intermittent successes at the international ...
