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 ABCs of collaboration in academia
(University of Waikato, 2019)The occurrence of research collaboration among multiple researchers is becoming more widespread within the academic research community. Research collaboration endeavours offer many benefits yet are not without challenges. ... -
Position and perspective: Research connections and tensions in a kindergarten community
(University of Waikato, 2019)There are many stories worthy of telling in early childhood education research, and multiple perspectives to consider and critique in the processes of research, including children’s perspectives and positioning. Acknowledging ... -
‘Business managers’ in children’s playground: A call for re-envisioning teachers’ professional identities in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood policies and practices
(2019)‘Business managers’ in children’s playground: A call for re-envisioning teachers’ professional identities in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood policies and practices The impacts of neoliberal education reforms on the ... -
Co-opting or valuing the indigenous voice through translation? A decision for research teams
(University of Waikato, 2019)Although te reo Māori is an official language of Aotearoa New Zealand, translation of research material such as information sheets, consent forms and questionnaires into te reo Māori remains highly variable. Translation ... -
Making use of and adapting MOOCs text resources for language learning
(2019)Massive Open Online Courses are becoming popular educational vehicles through which universities reach out to non-traditional audiences. Many enrollees hail from other countries and cultures, and struggle to cope with the ... -
Tales of gender(ed) identity constructions in one boys' Catholic school: A review of Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017)Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School examines how notions of gender—specifically masculinity—are formed in the classrooms and school environment of a Chicago Catholic boys' school. Through ... -
Cross-institutional peer observation by online tutors: Sharing practice "outside the family'
(Routledge, 2018)Whilst increasingly widespread, teaching online can be a solo endeavour. In this paper, we consider how peer exchange between online tutors from different institutions may offer a solution to this professional isolation. ... -
New Zealand secondary technology teachers' perceptions: "technological" or "technical" thinking?
(Springer, 2018)Technology education in the New Zealand context has seen significant change since it’s inception as a technical subject. The changing nature of the subject in New Zealand secondary schools is influenced by some teachers’ ... -
Learning engineering through the Flipped Classroom Approach- students' perspectives
(The Design and Technology Association, 2018)A flipped classroom approach consists of two distinct parts: direct on- line instruction in the students’ own time and at their own pace, and interactive group lea rning and problem - solving activities in scheduled classes. ... -
"Never say never?": Heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women's accounts of being childfree.
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Feminist scholars have identified a “motherhood imperative” in Western cultures, when heterosexual women are understood to both want and to have children. However, social shifts have resulted in a decrease in pronatalism ... -
Trial-and-error, Googling and talk: Engineering students taking initiative out of class
(Springer, 2018)A review of the science education literature identifies the importance of outreach in raising public awareness of science while providing students with contextually relevant and meaningful science in ways that enhance their ... -
‘Is it ever enough?’ Exploring academic language and learning advisory identities through small stories
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Contemporarily, higher education workplaces are characterised by collaboration, transitions, fluidity and the crossing of boundaries, where individuals are involved in ongoing negotiation of multilayered identities and ... -
Tracing new ground, from language to languaging, and from languaging to assemblages: rethinking languaging through the multilingual and ontological turns
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)This paper traces recent theorisation stemming from the multilingual turn and brings this into dialogue with assemblage thinking, discussing the critical potential of bringing these perspectives together to explore what ... -
Priorities, identity and the environment: Negotiating the early teenage years
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)This study focuses on the negotiation of environmental identity by ten New Zealand students as they progressed from late primary school to junior secondary school. Interviews with these students and their parents focussed ... -
Intelligent accountability evaluation of New Zealand primary school principals’ formal appraisal processes
(Australian Council for Education Leaders, 2019)Internationally there is interest in decentralising education and in the quality of school principals. In this article, Terry Crooks’ (2007) seven principles for intelligent accountability are applied to formal appraisal ... -
Language challenges and strategies for English Language Learners in statistics education: An overview of research in this field
(Asian Institute of Research, 2019)Despite the rapidly growing population of English Language Learners in schools, very little research has focused on understanding the challenges of English Language Learners in statistics education. This paper reviews ... -
Probability exploration in a game context: The dice difference game
(2019)Overview of lesson Learning about probability poses difficulties for students at all levels. In this lesson students are asked to make predictions about the fairness of a dice difference game and then test them by gathering ... -
Using Scratch to facilitate mathematical thinking
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2018)This article reports on a research project that examined the ways that 10-year-old students, who were using Scratch for coding, engaged with mathematical ideas. Interactive software is emerging that has cross-curricula ... -
Chinese postgraduates' explanation of the sources of sentence initial bundles in their thesis writing
(2018)Lexical bundles, recurrent multiword combinations in a register, are extremely common and important discourse building blocks in academic writing. An increasing number of studies have investigated lexical bundles in academic ... -
Critiquing collaborative CoRe design as an effective professional development intervention for developing teachers’ PCK for teaching science
(2019)This research signals that when undertaken in collaboration, CoRe design can enhance out-of-field teachers’ PCK for a particular topic.
