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Exploring the dual approaches to technology education in NZ secondary schools
(Technology Environmental Science and Mathematics Education Research Centre, University of Waikato, 2013)NZ secondary schools are able to offer their senior students either industry-based vocational technology education programmes or NZ Curriculum-based general technology education programmes. Each of these approaches is ... -
Indigenizing outdoor play in New Zealand: A conversation analysis approach
(Sage, 2017)This chapter focuses on a single case analysis of one trip to a local bush reserve in New Zealand. The observations included in this chapter begin by exploring the way in which a promise to the Maori God Tane Mahuta is ... -
A collaborative community education model: Developing effective school-community partnerships
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018)Despite school-community partnerships having much potential to provide educational organisations with authentic teaching and learning opportuni- ties through community-based action projects, they remain under-utilised ... -
A complex act—Teacher educators share their perspectives of practicum assessment
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)Practicum visiting and the assessment of students’ practicum form a significant component of the teacher educator role. Teacher educators are tasked with making judgements regarding the quality of students’ teaching practice, ... -
Representations of diversity in the revised New Zealand PictureBook Collection
(Routledge, 2017)Collections of children’s literature are used for a range of reasons including preservation, record keeping, and more recently the encouragement of intercultural understanding. Both the signifi- cance of learning about ... -
Introduction to the Special Issue: How to educate a nation’s teachers. Debating quality initial teacher education for today and for the future
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, the University of Waikato, 2017)The Teacher Education Forum Aotearoa New Zealand (TEFANZ) was officially launched on 12 July 1999—17 years ago—as the national voice for teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. TEFANZ members represent New Zealand Initial ... -
Using Activity Theory to understand contradictions in an online university course facilitated by Moodle
(2013)Activity Theory can offer insights into learning processes that are facilitated by Learning Management Systems. Contradictions, as a basic principle of Activity Theory, assist in identifying the tensions and conflicts that ... -
The use of learning technologies to facilitate engagement in an online course
(2013)E-learning is becoming increasingly popular in many countries for its flexibility in terms of time, place and pace. Research affirms that learning technologies support interaction and collaboration among learners and improve ... -
Technology Education for the Future: A Play on Sustainability.
(Technology Environmental Science and Mathematics Education Research Centre, University of Waikato, 2013)We are very pleased to welcome Technology Education scholars from around the world to New Zealand for PATT 27. We are delighted to have the PATT conference in the Southern Hemisphere for only the second time in its history. ... -
Scoping the meaning of 'critical' in mathematical thinking for Initial Teacher Education
(2015)Current strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy in New Zealand educational policy, as elsewhere, reverberates in different ways in institutions charged with children's and adults' learning. A common response is to locate ... -
Māori and Pacific traditional caregiving practices: Voices from the community
(2016)Increasing numbers of Māori and Pacific infants are enrolled in early childhood services in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This phenomenon is part of a larger societal trend in which mother return to the workforce within months of ... -
Mobile technologies in schools: The student voice
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)Intermediate and high school students spend a large amount of time using mobile devices (Lauricella, Cingel, Blackwell, Wartella, & Conway, 2014), and such devices are increasingly being integrated into our school system. ... -
Transferable skills for global employability in PhD curriculum transformation
(2017)Over the past twenty years, higher education has experienced greatly increased doctoral enrolments and corresponding changes in career destinations. Until recently, most graduates could expect to secure academic positions, ... -
Audiences, referees, and landscapes: Understanding the use of Māori and English in New Zealand dual language picturebooks through a sociolinguistic lens
(Victoria University Press, 2017)When non-dominant perspectives are represented in children's literature, it is labelled multicultural, and this form of literature has much potential for altering existing power structures in society. Bishop (1990) first ... -
Mirrors, windows and sliding glass doors – “This is our house”
(2017-07-29)Mini-keynote Oral presentation about a vignette from my doctoral study at Children in the Early Years: Pedagogy, Policy and Community Connectedness -
The effect of the "lens of the teacher" on teacher summative assessment literacy and practice
(2017)Teachers’ summative assessment literacy is vital in the current educational environment in New Zealand, given the importance of teachers’ summative judgements in all levels of compulsory education. Through initial teacher ... -
Technology education in New Zealand context: Disparate approaches to meaning making of the curriculum and the implications for teachers’ evolving knowledge for practice.
(University of Waikato, 2016)Technology education in the New Zealand context provides an opportunity for schools and teachers to offer future-focused, and innovative learning opportunities for all their learners, regardless of social or academic need. ... -
To share or not to share:Teachers’ use of student data for making pedagogical decisions
(2017)Teachers are expected to use evidence about students’ progress to inform their teaching and account for this progress to others. These requirements emphasise the need for educators’ competence in the collection, collation, ... -
School curriculum and outdoor education. Part 1: Early childhood and primary school
(CPIT, 2011)Th is chapter explores broad possibilities for learning outdoors in formal education contexts. In part one we set the scene for the chapter by examining contemporary curricula in the early childhood and school sectors. ... -
Exploring children’s perspectives: Multiple ways of seeing and knowing the child
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato, 2015)This article focuses on human development in the early years, and the challenges for teachers and researchers in seeking to explore young children’s perspectives. The current interest in listening to children’s voices sits ...
