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Prismatic storying: Making visible multi coloured codes
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2018)Language is a casement into cultures' deepest meanings. As children acquire languages, they implicitly adopt the mores of people around them; read the symbols, artefacts and codes. In this article, we examine the importance ... -
Legacies of learning: Negotiating guidelines for online discussion
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, The University of Waikato, 2015)This study involves students in constructing a community resource or legacy for future learners to use. In this instance, the resource takes the form of a set of guidelines for Asynchronous Online Discussion (AOD). Working ... -
Keynote: Going to university—Blended strategies for learning and teaching in a modern tertiary context
(FLANZ, 2016)This think piece is a follow-up to a keynote delivered at the biennial DEANZ Conference, at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, in April 2016. It explores the University of Waikato’s Mixed Media Pathway. ... -
Professional online presence and learning networks: Educating for ethical use of social media
(Athabasca University, 2017)In a teacher education context, this study considers the use of social media for building a professional online presence and learning network. This article provides an overview of uses of social media in teacher education, ... -
From confounded to common ground: misunderstandings between tertiary teachers and students in online discussions
(ASCILITE, 2019)Drawing on findings from two studies, this article focuses on the expectations of students and teachers in higher education, when learning via asynchronous online discussions. In particular, this synthesis highlights a ... -
[Review of Childhood sexuality and AIDS education: The price of innocence by Deevia Bhana]
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article reviews the book, "Childhood sexuality and AIDS education: The price of innocence," by Deevia Bhana -
Pacific students and pedagogical success [Editorial]
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, the University of Waikato, 2018)Debates about rates of achievement for Pacific students have been a feature of educational conversations in New Zealand for over three decades. We do not intend rehearsing the substance of them here, as components of them ... -
Language-as-resource: Language strategies used by New Zealand teachers working in an international multilingual setting
(Edith Cowan University, 2018)Research indicates that teachers can face challenges in knowing how to support language learners because they often have minimal training in teaching language learners in mainstream contexts (Martin, 2004; Sharma et al., ... -
Transitions and transience
(2017)A governmental focus is on supporting ‘priority’ families to take part in early childhood education. This presentation discusses findings from Stage 4 of an evaluation of the Ministry’s Early Childhood Education Participation ... -
Discourses of economic investment and child vulnerability in early childhood education
(WIlf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)This article explores discourses of economic investment and child vulnerability that have become dominant under New Zealand’s National-led Government as a rationale for policy directions in early childhood education. It ... -
Negotiating fairness and diversity: What can stories from one kindergarten teach us?
(2018)I am delighted to be presenting here today. It is lovely to be among friends, and to have had great visits to a number of Inspired Kindergartens this year. I saw Year Ones on Practicum, and then took Year Two students to ... -
Peer support for international doctoral students in managing supervision relationships
(2017)Doctoral education is based on a pedagogical model of apprenticeship where the expert, the more experienced academic, advises or mentors the student. Scholars have recognized the challenges of doctoral supervision due to ... -
The bilingual researcher’s dilemmas: Reflexive approaches to translation issues
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2017)Research conducted by English-speaking researchers about other language speaking subjects is essentially cross-cultural and often multilingual, particularly with qualitative research that involves participants communicating ... -
Reshaping the learning experience through apps: Affordances
(Springer, Cham, 2018)This paper reports on how the affordances of the app Math Shake reshaped the learning experience—an aspect of a research project examining the ways mobile technologies are used in primary-school mathematics. Students used ... -
The uncertainty of a future-focused curriculum in New Zealand: The perceptions and practice of six secondary school technology teachers.
(ASCILITE, 2018)New Zealand education is unique because it has had a technology curriculum since the mid-1990's. In response to the way that technology is evolving, however, the curriculum is currently under revision, to be inclusive of ... -
Understanding informal learning among international students through their brokering practices
(TESOLANZ, 2017)While informal learning is recognised as an important part of academic learning, the significance of learning outside the prescribed curriculum has been largely overlooked in the literature on international students. The ... -
Found in translation: How brokering practices support international students' learning
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research (WMIER), Faculty of Education, The University of Waikato, 2018)Research on international students for whom English is an additional language (EAL) tend to focus on their lack of language proficiency and active participation in the classroom. However, examining their informal learning ... -
Learning later in life
(Stylus Publishing, 2017)The phrase "learning in later life" has assumed major significance for educators and allied professionals in their efforts to understand the dynamics of learning for older people across the globe. In earlier times, the ... -
Editorial
(International Institute on Ageing, 2017)This special issue of the International Journal of Ageing in Developing Countries (IJADC) focusses on learning in later life (also known as educational gerontology). As guest editor for this issue, I am hopeful that this ... -
Concluding remarks
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)This chapter provides a chance to reflect on the significance of the 42 country/regional descriptions and analyses of later life learning/education. It is deliberately entitled “Concluding remarks”, as opposed to “Conclusions”, ...
