Education Papers
This community houses research from the Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato.
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The use of a multidimensional support model to examine policies and practices for immigrant students across Canada.
(2020)In the larger context of migration, the education and integration of immigrant children within Canadian school systems has become a pressing concern for education policy makers. Through a systematic content analysis, this ... -
How are professional programs from diverse disciplines approaching the development and assessment of competence at a mid-sized Canadian university?
(University of Western Ontario, Western Libraries, 2020)Time-honoured university policies, such as the credit-hour and academic freedom, present challenges for professional education programs tasked with operationalizing entry-to-practice competence frameworks for professional ... -
Using task models to understand the intersection of numeracy skills and technical competence with medical device design
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Task models are used in many different ways throughout the design and development of interactive systems. When the interactive systems are safety critical, task models can play an important role in ensuring system behaviours ... -
Explicating the value of standardized educational achievement data and a protocol for collaborative analysis of this data
(Frontiers in Education, 2021)Governments expect teachers to be able to make sense of and take action on data at various levels of aggregation. In our research we collaborated with 13 teachers from six primary schools and one intermediate school to use ... -
Mathematics education students’ experiences during lockdown: Managing collaboration in eLearning
(MDPI AG, 2021)The current world crisis of COVID-19 has enforced international lockdowns in educational institutions, necessitating that these institutions quickly transition to online learning. In mathematics education studies, where ... -
Using picturebook illustrations to help young children understand diversity
(2019)The demographics of Aotearoa New Zealand have changed markedly over the past few decades in relation to increasing ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. These changes have resulted from immigration, refugee resettlement ... -
Mapping Māori knowledge from the past to inform marine management futures
(New Zealand Association of Scientists, 2020)This article provides an overview of research which used mātauranga moana (Māori marine knowledge systems) to inform and assist Western science field research methods and surveys. Place-based Māori marine knowledge identified ... -
'It's part of me that I want them to know about': Maintaining distant New Zealand national identity in Canada using New Zealand picture books
(Wizard's Tower Press, 2013)The link between national identity and children’s picture books has been established in several countries including Canada (e.g., Bainbridge; Pantaleo) and New Zealand (e.g., author; Hebley; McNeur). However, few, if any, ... -
Kiwi, kapai, and kuia: Māori loanwords in New Zealand English children's picture books published between 1995 and 2005
(Wizard's Tower Press, 2013)Māori loanwords are a distinctive characteristic of New Zealand English (Deverson, 1991). A previous study of the frequency of Māori loanwords in New Zealand English children’s picture books showed an incidence of 56 words ... -
The Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood education and care: A collaborative and democratic space and place for all members of the learning community
(Visoka škola strukovnih studija za obrazovanje vaspitača, Novi Sad, 2019)This article draws on the author’s doctoral research study that investigated how teachers’ professional identities have been re constructed in response to shifting discourses in early childhood education and care (ECEC) ... -
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. ...
