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New Zealand secondary technology teachers' perceptions: "technological" or "technical" thinking?
(Springer, 2018)Technology education in the New Zealand context has seen significant change since it’s inception as a technical subject. The changing nature of the subject in New Zealand secondary schools is influenced by some teachers’ ... -
Learning engineering through the Flipped Classroom Approach- students' perspectives
(The Design and Technology Association, 2018)A flipped classroom approach consists of two distinct parts: direct on- line instruction in the students’ own time and at their own pace, and interactive group lea rning and problem - solving activities in scheduled classes. ... -
"Never say never?": Heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women's accounts of being childfree.
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Feminist scholars have identified a “motherhood imperative” in Western cultures, when heterosexual women are understood to both want and to have children. However, social shifts have resulted in a decrease in pronatalism ... -
Trial-and-error, Googling and talk: Engineering students taking initiative out of class
(Springer, 2018)A review of the science education literature identifies the importance of outreach in raising public awareness of science while providing students with contextually relevant and meaningful science in ways that enhance their ... -
‘Is it ever enough?’ Exploring academic language and learning advisory identities through small stories
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Contemporarily, higher education workplaces are characterised by collaboration, transitions, fluidity and the crossing of boundaries, where individuals are involved in ongoing negotiation of multilayered identities and ... -
Tracing new ground, from language to languaging, and from languaging to assemblages: rethinking languaging through the multilingual and ontological turns
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)This paper traces recent theorisation stemming from the multilingual turn and brings this into dialogue with assemblage thinking, discussing the critical potential of bringing these perspectives together to explore what ... -
Priorities, identity and the environment: Negotiating the early teenage years
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)This study focuses on the negotiation of environmental identity by ten New Zealand students as they progressed from late primary school to junior secondary school. Interviews with these students and their parents focussed ... -
Intelligent accountability evaluation of New Zealand primary school principals’ formal appraisal processes
(Australian Council for Education Leaders, 2019)Internationally there is interest in decentralising education and in the quality of school principals. In this article, Terry Crooks’ (2007) seven principles for intelligent accountability are applied to formal appraisal ... -
Language challenges and strategies for English Language Learners in statistics education: An overview of research in this field
(Asian Institute of Research, 2019)Despite the rapidly growing population of English Language Learners in schools, very little research has focused on understanding the challenges of English Language Learners in statistics education. This paper reviews ... -
Probability exploration in a game context: The dice difference game
(2019)Overview of lesson Learning about probability poses difficulties for students at all levels. In this lesson students are asked to make predictions about the fairness of a dice difference game and then test them by gathering ... -
Using Scratch to facilitate mathematical thinking
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2018)This article reports on a research project that examined the ways that 10-year-old students, who were using Scratch for coding, engaged with mathematical ideas. Interactive software is emerging that has cross-curricula ... -
Chinese postgraduates' explanation of the sources of sentence initial bundles in their thesis writing
(2018)Lexical bundles, recurrent multiword combinations in a register, are extremely common and important discourse building blocks in academic writing. An increasing number of studies have investigated lexical bundles in academic ... -
Critiquing collaborative CoRe design as an effective professional development intervention for developing teachers’ PCK for teaching science
(2019)This research signals that when undertaken in collaboration, CoRe design can enhance out-of-field teachers’ PCK for a particular topic. -
Student belonging: critical relationships and responsibilities
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)In this paper, we consider New Zealand’s education system to understand what can happen when we focus only on excellence and students reaching their potential, without simultaneously investing in their sense of belonging ... -
Teacher questioning in a Chinese context: Implications for New Zealand classrooms
(Wilf Malcolm Institue of Educational Research, the University of Waikato, 2019)Teacher questioning is a very important aspect of teacher-student interaction in classrooms around the world. However, expectations of the purposes and types of these interactions can be variable, particularly across ... -
Acceptance of smartphone as a mobile learning tool among the students of engineering in New Zealand
(2018)Smartphones today are ubiquitous and are influencing our everyday life and have unsettled many age-old tasks, activities, devices, gadgets, tools and technologies with their redefined usage and definitions. They have strong ... -
Contributions to technology education through funds of knowledge
(University of Waikato, 2015)The value and place of cultural knowledge, particularly that of minority groups, is frequently overlooked in school settings. However, when teachers are aware of students’ backgrounds, and cultural practices, the likelihood ... -
Assisting teachers’ understanding of student learning in technology
(Springer Verlag, 2018)This article describes a study undertaken in New Zealand, England and Sweden and is based on the use of a tool developed by the researcher as a professional development and teaching tool in technology education for teachers ... -
Enhancing the learning of technology in early childhood settings
(Early Childhood Australia, 2019)This article describes a study of early childhood teachers’ understanding of teaching and learning in children four and five years-of-age in technology education. The research aimed at assisting teachers’ understanding of ... -
On the CUSP of innovation: From CUSP to CUSP2
(2019)The Collaborative University-School Partnership project (CUSP) documents the experiences of a New Zealand university and seven schools as they collaborated on the development and introduction of a reframed practicum programme ...
