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The secrets of immigrant student success
(The Conversation Media Group Ltd, 2018-05-15)Canada consistently ranks among the top 10 destination countries for international migrants. Over 7.5 million foreign-born Canadians, representing more than one-fifth of the population and over one-third of school-aged ... -
Technology teacher education in New Zealand
(Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 2020)Undertaken in universities and other approved private providers, technology teacher education in New Zealand involves students in theory and practice. The New Zealand Teaching Council, the teaching professional body, ... -
Are women-who-have-sex-with-women an 'at-risk' group for cervical cancer? An exploratory study of women in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(CSIRO Publishing, 2023-12-01)Background. International research consistently indicates that women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW) are less likely to engage in cervical screening than heterosexual women. In the main, studies have explored rates of ... -
Comparison of Personal Video Technology for Teaching and Assessment of Surgical Skills.
(National Library of Medicine, 2019-06)BACKGROUND: Improvements in personal technology have made video recording for teaching and assessment of surgical skills possible. OBJECTIVE: This study compared 5 personal video-recording devices based on their utility ... -
Transnational conversations about teacher identities in early childhood places and spaces: Call for alliance-building, advocacy and activism
(Symposium Journals, 2021-05-07)The professional identities of teachers are fundamental to their understanding of how to be and how to act in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Professional identities have emerged as a key consideration both in ... -
Assemblage drawings as talking points: Deleuze, posthumans and climate-activist teachers
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-12-01)In this paper, we employ Deleuzian philosophy to explore the complex challenges confronting teachers and education systems posed by the climate emergency and the implications of the resulting posthumanist turn. Self-identified ... -
Facebook: A place to build relationships and to collaboratively support each family’s journey to school
(NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020-05-28)Children’s transition from an early childhood education setting to school needs to involve children and their families to best support the family in this time of change. This article focuses on a case study from doctoral ... -
Culturally responsive teaching in a globalized world
(The Conversation Australia and New Zealand, 2019-01-24)In an increasingly diverse global education landscape, culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is vital for equitable learning. CRT involves recognizing and incorporating students' cultural backgrounds in teaching practices. ... -
Using digital content analysis for online research: Online news media depictions of older adults
(Sage, 2022)This case study describes how I used the method of digital content analysis in a research project aimed at understanding how online news media articles depict and represent older adults in a New Zealand context. The focus ... -
Te reo pohewa: Engaging primary-school children in writing poetry
Prior to the March, 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in New Zealand I was invited to offer professional development on ways that the writing of poetry could be facilitated in a Rotorua primary school. In March/April of that year, I ... -
Wāhine Māori engagement with literacies
(Māori & Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2023-09-28)Wāhine Māori engagement with literacies (2023) is a case study report in collaboration with Te Whakaruruhau. It has been undertaken as part of a larger project, The expression, experience and transcendence of low skills ... -
Failing a Generation: What literacy is and why it matters
(2023-11-16)The concept of literacy and its ownership sparks diverse perspectives, with some viewing it through a Western lens of reading and writing, while others argue for a culturally relative understanding encompassing various ... -
Can nonhumans speak? Languaging and worlds in posthumanist applied linguistics
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023-09-01)This paper mobilises posthumanism as a way to theorise and articulate what language(s)/languagingmay be for nonhuman animals. This is investigated via various concepts brought together: we turn to the on-tological turn in ... -
‘No one would give me that job in Australia’: When professional identities intersect with how teachers look, speak, and where they come from
(Informa UK Limited, 2023)This article investigates how non-native English-speaking teachers’ (NNESTs) professional identities can be affected by their employment experiences in Australia. Hermeneutic phenomenological narrative analyses of the ... -
Transition experiences of first-year initial teacher education students: Barriers and enablers
(University of Waikato, 2020-11-19)Globally, schools and governments have strong expectations for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes to prepare ‘profession-ready’ graduates (Charteris & Dargusch, 2018). Such demands require ITE students to go through ... -
Promoting statistical thinking in year 12 multilingual classrooms: a collaborative study
(Springer Nature, 2023-01-01)There are challenges making connections between language use and mathematics in mathematics education. A lack of connections between the two domains can have negative consequences on student learning and performance. The ... -
Ensuring higher education campus maps support visibility and inclusion for parents
(The University of Waikato, 2023)In 2022, we reviewed publicly available campus maps for all 37 Australian and 8 New Zealand public universities to identify what parentrelated facilities were evident. Of 281 distinct teaching and/or research sites, only ... -
The policy-research-practice triangle in New Zealand early childhood education: Complexities, impossibilities and silences
(Informa UK Limited, 2023)Inspired by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) Conference 2022, entitled ‘The Mighty Triangle: The strength of the research-policy-practice triangle for addressing local, national, and global ... -
Picturebooks as a bridge to cultural autoethnographies
(2022-11-17)Research on the use of picturebooks with tertiary students has explored several aspects of the ways in which they can be used to support preservice teachers’ understanding of children’s literacy (Hoffman, 2021), their ... -
An evidence-based approach to secondary school science: Online citizen science and the science capabilities
(NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2022)As part of a multiyear research project investigating the affordances of online citizen science (OCS) projects for enhancing school students’ learning in relation to science and digital technology, teacher–researchers have ...
