Education Papers
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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 ... -
Mobile technologies in schools: The student voice
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)Intermediate and high school students spend a large amount of time using mobile devices (Lauricella, Cingel, Blackwell, Wartella, & Conway, 2014), and such devices are increasingly being integrated into our school system. ... -
Transferable skills for global employability in PhD curriculum transformation
(2017)Over the past twenty years, higher education has experienced greatly increased doctoral enrolments and corresponding changes in career destinations. Until recently, most graduates could expect to secure academic positions, ... -
Audiences, referees, and landscapes: Understanding the use of Māori and English in New Zealand dual language picturebooks through a sociolinguistic lens
(Victoria University Press, 2017)When non-dominant perspectives are represented in children's literature, it is labelled multicultural, and this form of literature has much potential for altering existing power structures in society. Bishop (1990) first ... -
Mirrors, windows and sliding glass doors – “This is our house”
(2017-07-29)Mini-keynote Oral presentation about a vignette from my doctoral study at Children in the Early Years: Pedagogy, Policy and Community Connectedness -
The effect of the "lens of the teacher" on teacher summative assessment literacy and practice
(2017)Teachers’ summative assessment literacy is vital in the current educational environment in New Zealand, given the importance of teachers’ summative judgements in all levels of compulsory education. Through initial teacher ... -
Technology education in New Zealand context: Disparate approaches to meaning making of the curriculum and the implications for teachers’ evolving knowledge for practice.
(University of Waikato, 2016)Technology education in the New Zealand context provides an opportunity for schools and teachers to offer future-focused, and innovative learning opportunities for all their learners, regardless of social or academic need. ... -
To share or not to share:Teachers’ use of student data for making pedagogical decisions
(2017)Teachers are expected to use evidence about students’ progress to inform their teaching and account for this progress to others. These requirements emphasise the need for educators’ competence in the collection, collation, ... -
School curriculum and outdoor education. Part 1: Early childhood and primary school
(CPIT, 2011)Th is chapter explores broad possibilities for learning outdoors in formal education contexts. In part one we set the scene for the chapter by examining contemporary curricula in the early childhood and school sectors. ... -
Exploring children’s perspectives: Multiple ways of seeing and knowing the child
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato, 2015)This article focuses on human development in the early years, and the challenges for teachers and researchers in seeking to explore young children’s perspectives. The current interest in listening to children’s voices sits ... -
Letter from the Waikato
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Because 2016 is the 20th anniversary of Te Whāriki and 12 years since the publication of the first 10 books of Kei Tua o te Pae (Ministry of Education, 1996; 2004), we have been reflecting on developments in teaching, ... -
Pulling the monstrosity of (hetro)normativity out of the closet: Teacher education as a problem and an answer
(Otago University Press, 2015)For the purposes of this chapter we suggest that (hetero )normativity¹ is a 'malaise' and a 'monstrous spectre, a menacing form of 'symbolic violence' in classrooms within universities, schools and early childhood centres. ... -
Teachers’ perceptions of the impact of a one-year in-service teacher education programme in the Solomon Islands
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education, 2016)The recent development of a one-year campus-based teacher education programme in the Solomon Islands was intended as a step towards improving access to teacher development opportunities for local teachers wanting to upgrade ... -
Introduction—‘Nine years of National-led education policy’
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)It is a pleasure to guest-edit this special issue on ‘Nine Years of National-led Education Policy’. As the journal of the faculty where I have worked for much of my career, I am rather fond of the Waikato Journal of ... -
New Zealand’s National Standards policy: How should we view it a decade on?
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)In this short article, I consider how teachers might judge the National Standards system these days and also how the policy might be understood more generally. These are important questions coming up to the 2017 election ... -
Ethical beginnings: Reflexive questioning in child sexuality research
(2012)This paper presents my experience of taking up an area from counselling practice into research practice, and exploring a range of ethical questions. This section describes movement from identity as a counselling practitioner ...
