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Parents’ and caregivers’ perceptions of the school climate: development and validation of the Parent and Caregiver Survey (PaCS)
(Springer, 2020)School climates are known to be associated with a range of student outcomes (including academic, social, behavioural and affective), and much work to date has focused on gathering students’ perceptions of their school ... -
Business managers in children’s playground : Exploring a problematic (or not!) identity construction of early childhood teachers in New Zealand.
(Sage, 2021)The impacts of neo-liberal education reforms on the early childhood education sector have been a focal point of scholarly critiques in New Zealand. Interestingly, only a few studies have addressed how teacher professional ... -
Space speaks: A portrait of an early childhood centre and the affordances provided by the learning environment
(NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020)The quality of early childhood education and care fundamentally depends on teachers’ wise practice. However, the environments in which that education and care occur can influence, inform, and shape teachers’ practice, and ... -
Associations between school climate and student life satisfaction: resilience and bullying as mediating factors
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019)Because adolescent life satisfaction is associated with important affective, behavioural and health-related outcomes during both adolescence and later life, strategies for promoting adolescent life satisfaction have potential ... -
What gets in the way? A new conceptual model for the trajectory from teacher professional development to impact
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD, 2019)Although school and education system leaders can mandate teachers’ participation in professional development activities, various school-related, teacher-related and student-related factors influence the degree to which ... -
Students' transitions into initial teacher education: Understanding barriers and enablers through an ecological lens
(Edith Cowan University, 2021)This paper presents a small-scale qualitative investigation which explored early first-year transition experiences of pre-service teacher students. The study took place in one university in Aotearoa New Zealand, involving ... -
Sixty years of adult learning in Aotearoa New Zealand: Looking back to the 1960s and beyond the 2020s
(Adult Learning Australia, 2020)This article offers a historical analysis of the past sixty years of adult learning in Aotearoa New Zealand and critically appraises events which have shaped today’s context. Drawing on a substantial body of research by ... -
Exploring social media engagement by female athletes in a postfeminist age
(2016)The research aims to explore how social media is being used by sportswomen in the representation and promotion of their sport and themselves as sporting subjects. -
Strengthening belonging and identity of refugee and immigrant children through early childhood education
(TLRI, 2020)This project explored the role of early childhood education (ECE) and pedagogical strategies in supporting a sense of belonging and identity for refugee and immigrant children and families in Aotearoa New Zealand. We used ... -
Enacted stigma experiences and protective factors are strongly associated with mental health outcomes of transgender people in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Introduction: International evidence has found large mental health inequities among transgender people and demonstrates that mental health outcomes are associated with enacted stigma experiences and protective factors. ... -
‘It’s how the world around you treats you for being trans’: mental health and wellbeing of transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)Globally, transgender people have been described as a highly marginalised population due to cisgenderism that delegitimises their gender identities and expressions. Despite robust evidence from many countries noting the ... -
Problematising constructions of ‘expert teachers’ and ‘vulnerable children’ in New Zealand Early Childhood
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Over the last two decades, early childhood education (ECE) has come to the top of the political agenda in New Zealand and internationally. The interest of governments and policy-makers in ECE has been driven by the thinking ... -
Na yaqona kei na ivakatakilakila vakavanua ena yatu Pasivika (Kava and ethno-cultural identity in Oceania)
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Garibaldi and Turner (2004, p. 1, 5) explain the role that particular plants play in facilitating the shared ancestry, practices and social experience of an ethnicity. This can include spiritual connections, cultural ... -
Calculating for creativity: Maths joins the circus
(University of Waikato, 2020)Following recent increases in the diversity of students, technologies, pedagogies and environments, New Zealand classrooms are sites of growing complexity. Tasked with covering a broad range of disciplines within each ... -
Talanoa vā: indigenous masculinities and the intersections of indigeneity, race, and gender within higher education
(Routledge, 2021)Indigenous scholars constantly contend with deficit tendencies associated with the value and place of their cultural knowledge and practices within higher education. When gender is imbued through a racialised view of ... -
Unlocking curious minds evaluation report: Developing a STEM mobile makerspace and maker educator learning resources
(2021)This report details our research project funded under the Unlocking Curious Minds initiative 2020. It was conducted in parallel with the makerspace programme: Building a city of the Future 2040. This report describes the ... -
Picturebooks in teacher education: Eight teacher educators share their practice
(Social Science Press, 2015)There is a great deal of contemporary research demonstrating the effective use of picturebooks in the classroom; however, there are few studies recording perceptions and use of picturebooks in Initial Teacher Education ... -
What do New Zealand picturebooks tell us about New Zealand national identity?
(New Zealand Literacy Association, 2016)Jeffries (2004, p. 4) defines national identity as ' ... a shared sense of belonging of a group of people that depends on a common area of named place, a common set of beliefs and values, and positive feelings for a specific ... -
The joy of having a book in your own language: Home language books in a refugee education centre
(MDPI, 2020)In 2018, Aotearoa/New Zealand increased its annual refugee quota to 1000. When refugees arrive in Aotearoa/New Zealand they spend six weeks in a resettlement programme. During this time, children attend an introduction to ... -
New Zealand therapist insights into the intersecting fields of sexualities and childhood
(New Zealand Association of Counsellors, 2020)Little research has been published about therapists’ insights into the intersecting fields of sexualities and childhood. In this paper, I focus on therapists’ responses from my recently completed doctoral research project ...
