Education Papers
This community houses research from the Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato.
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Promoting community socio-ecological sustainability through technology: A case study from Chile
(Springer, 2017)The importance of community learning in effecting social change towards ecological sustainability has been recognised for some time. More recently, the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools to promote ... -
Collective writing: An inquiry into praxis
(2017)This is the second text in the series collectively written by members of the Editors' Collective, which comprises a series of individual and collaborative reflections upon the experience of contributing to the previous and ... -
Beyond the Screen: Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences. [Book Review]
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2016)This article reviews the book “Beyond the Screen: Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences”, by Sarah Atkinson. -
Chocolates for me or chocolates for you? The impact of a learning experience outside the classroom on the technological practice of two five-year-old students
(2015)Knowledge of expert practice is a key element of Technology Education (Ministry of Education, 2007), and this paper which is part of a larger study, is a brief comparative study which investigates the impact a learning ... -
An ecological approach to Understanding assessment for learning in support of student Writing achievement
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2018)In this paper, we report on a project conducted in a New Zealand primary school that aimed to enhance the writing achievement of primary school boys who were achieving just below the national standard for their age or level ... -
Risk and resilience in gifted young people from low socio-economic backgrounds
(Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 2017)Gifted and talented young people from low socio-economic backgrounds are consistently under-represented in gifted programmes in New Zealand schools. This chapter reports on a qualitative study that explored the lived ... -
Introduction to giftedness and talent: Australasian perspectives.
(Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 2017)The impetus for this book was a desire to make contemporary research more accessible to those with an interest in giftedness and talent; policymakers, re-searchers, students, practitioners, parents and gifted individuals ... -
"Let's all hold hands and cross the line together!" Competition and gifted learners
(New Zealand Council of Educational Research, 2015)Competition appears to have become increasingly discouraged in educational settings in New Zealand in recent years, with a push towards ‘protecting’ our children from being constantly compared with others or experiencing ... -
Introduction: Paulo Freire: The Global Legacy
(Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 2015)This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire's ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire's work and the impact of his global legacy. -
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 ...
