Education Papers
This community houses research from the Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato.
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Flipped teaching and flexible learning
(2017)• Demystify the process of flipping a class and how successfully flipped class effectively support learning • Grounded case study on undergraduate engineering course with high student enrolment and strong labbased ... -
Doctoral supervision practice models: Where to from here?
(2016-04-22)The aim of this session is to present and discuss a framework for supervisor professional development, including aspects that could contribute to the skills needed in the current supervisory environment. Supervisors face ... -
Supervising research in Māori cultural contexts: a decolonizing, relational response
(Routledge, 2017)We have collaborated for 25 years as indigenous Māori and non- Māori researchers undertaking research with Māori families, their schools and communities. We have endeavored to meet our responsibilities to the Māori ... -
Succeeding as Māori: Māori students’ views on our Stepping Up to the Ka Hikitia Challenge
(2017)This paper examines the vision and intent of New Zealand’s Māori education policy, Ka Hikitia, and its implications on the daily lives of Māori students in New Zealand’s education system. Extensive information on the ... -
Leadership: Going beyond personal will and professional skills to give life to Ka Hikitia
(NZEALS, 2015)This paper investigates the Ka Hikitia Māori education policy and its subsequent influence in effecting system change towards Māori students’ achievement. It discusses how a Request for Proposal to the Ministry of Education’s ... -
Examining the potential of critical and Kaupapa Māori approaches to leading education reform in New Zealand’s English-medium secondary schools
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016)This paper discusses expectations, policies and practices that currently underpin education within the New Zealand context. It acknowledges the ongoing failure of this policy framework to positively influence reform for ... -
Developing nursing competence: Future proofing nurses for the changing practice requirements of 21st century healthcare.
(2017)There's a conundrum that is taxing us at the moment – how can we see into the future to know what we need to know, to be prepared for things to come? Obviously none of us has the actual ability to ‘see’ into the future, ... -
Empowering Solomon Islands’ beginning science teachers through the use of Appreciative Inquiry
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)This paper reports on a study that investigated the potential of using Appreciative Inquiry for exploring the development of three beginning science teachers in the Solomon Islands. Using the four phases of an Appreciative ... -
Flipped classroom learning in a large introductory undergraduate engineering course
(2016)CONTEXT The flipped-classroom model is a recent educational development that is prominent in the literature on learning. The typical flipped class scenario involves students looking up information, reading printed materials ... -
On the threshold: Affordances of online tutorials in the learning of threshold concepts
(2013)According to threshold concept theory, in each academic discipline there exist concepts that once grasped allow new and previously inaccessible ways of perceiving and thinking about the subject to emerge [1]. Acquiring a ... -
The girl on the bus or the spider in the bathroom? Students’ enduring memories of learning experiences outside the classroom in technology education
(Technology Environmental Mathematics and Science (TEMS) education Research Centre, University of Waikato, 2017)This paper explores the planning and management of Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) as it relates to curriculum-based learning and teaching in schools and in this instance specifically to teaching technology education ... -
Devices, distractions and digital literacy: ‘Bring your own device’ to polytech
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways polytechnic students use personal mobile devices to support their learning. This study used purposive sampling and mixed methods to generate data about student ownership ... -
Community and family literacies in Aotearoa New Zealand: Critical analysis of current policies and practices
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2016)Video of Introduction in the Waikato Journal of Education -
BioDome Adventure
(2017)Simon Taylor, from the University of Waikato, discusses how the context of a bio-dome topic has invigorated learning in science classes. He draws on recent developments in exploring socio-scientific issues and how a group ... -
Fostering project management competencies in undergraduate engineering: An exploration of the use of management- educated tutors as coaches in problem-based learning
(2018)CONTEXT Problem-based learning (PBL) helps engineering graduates develop the competencies needed in order to engage effectively with complex and uncertain workplace demands. PBL’s effectiveness, however, also depends on ... -
Flipped classroom learning in a first-year undergraduate engineering course
(2018)Flipped classrooms support student-centred learning and are increasingly being adopted in institutions of higher learning worldwide. This paper is a report on the findings of a two-year funded project conducted on the ... -
Enhancing teachers’ understanding of young students’ learning in technology
(ITEEA, 2017)This paper describes a study of teachers’ understanding of teaching and learning and the formative assessment of students aged 4-7 years of age in technology education. The research aimed at assisting teachers’ understanding ... -
Beginning teachers learning to teach mathematics through problem-solving
(2018)New Zealand curriculum documents have referred to mathematics as a problem-solving endeavour for more than 25 years. Although an intended curriculum focus, problem-solving seems to be an aspect of mathematics that many ... -
Retained Primitive Reflexes: The influences of Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT) in the classroom – preliminary results from one student
(2018)This research investigates the influences of Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT) on student achievement and behavioural outcomes, with teacher and parent perspectives included in the analysis. The individualised movement ... -
The thing’s revelation: Some thoughts on Māori philosophical research
(The University of Waikato, 2015)In indigenous research projects, there is a strong emphasis on interviews and the analysis of the data that results. There is, however, another form of research that still calls to be fully acknowledged. Philosophical ...
