Education Papers
This community houses research from the Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato.
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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 ... -
Re-thinking ways of being a teacher and doing an early childhood project: A critical examination of discourses and identities in early childhood policies and practice
(2021)The conference presentation draws on the author's recent study on how teacher professional identities have been re-constructed in response to shifting discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood (ECE) policies and ... -
Development of an integrated sacrificial sensor for damage detection and monitoring in composite materials and adhesively bonded joints
(SAGE Publications, 2021)Quality assurance of adhesively bonded joints is of vital importance if their benefits are to be exploited across a wide range of industrial applications. A novel lightweight, low-cost, non-invasive embedded sacrificial ... -
Working together effectively [Guest Editorial]
(2019)Working together effectively across different sectors and with family, whānau and other groups to enhance children’s learning may require courage and persistence, but as many teachers have found, a community approach can ... -
Young children, solitude and singing: self-directed singing and personal agency in three- and four-year-old children at home
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)This article uses explores how young children use self-directed spontaneous singing at home as a tool of personal agency. Although researchers are increasingly interested in spontaneous singing that takes place outside ... -
Digital technologies as a panacea for social isolation and loneliness among older adults: An intervention model for flourishing and wellbeing
(Brill, 2021)This article explores whether digital communication technologies have applicability in reducing social isolation and loneliness among older adults. Issues of social isolation and loneliness among older adults are important ...
