Browsing Education Dissertations and Theses by Title
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The landscape of principalship in Yangon, Myanmar
(2017)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. What is an international view of principalship? 2. What do documents reveal about the roles and responsibilities of Myanmar principals? 3. How do Myanmar principals perceive and interpret their ... -
Leadership development for middle leaders in a Lao tertiary institution
(2014)Recently, the education reformation in Laos has reinforced the higher education institutions to meet the national social-economic development plans. Consequently, more demands and expectations are placed on educational ... -
Leadership development needs of Cambodian primary school principals and deputy principals
(2015)Senior school leaders in Cambodia are required to respond and cope with growing demands and expectations of relevant education stakeholders such as the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), school community, and ... -
Leadership development of curriculum leaders in a Lao higher education Institution
(2015)The regional and national development plan for education has increased its intensity and now requires curriculum leaders to handle many additional tasks distributed from higher management. In pursuing their new roles and ... -
Leadership identification and development of primary school teachers: Exploring the complexities
(2009)Leadership development is a key activity in schools. It can focus on improving outcomes for students, personal development for leaders and support strategic change for the school. This thesis analysed the further development ... -
Leadership in digital technology: The challenge of decision making
(2012)This research investigated the perceptions of decision-making in the use of digital technologies by three secondary schools, leaders and teachers. In the use of digital technology teachers in these schools understood it ... -
Leadership in learning and change: An evaluation of leadership in the context of implementing a Bible College programme
(2010)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. Is there congruency between the LBC's Leadership Team vision and the actualisation of the LBC [Lifestyle Bible College] at this stage of the implementation process? 2. What leadership challenges ... -
Leaders’ perceptions of the practices and challenges that influence Pasifika achievement in New Zealand secondary schools
(2013)Within the New Zealand education system, Pasifika secondary school students are identified as being one of the groups most at risk of not succeeding, with large numbers underachieving. The Ministry of Education and the ... -
Leading change at the middle: Stories of higher education middle leaders ‘success’
(2008)This project aimed to identify and explain the contextual factors associated with successful middle change leadership as a way of determining the value that such initiatives have to enable change to take place in a less ... -
Leading learning for Māori students : the challenges of leadership for teaching principals in small rural primary schools
(2015)This study focused on examining teaching principals’ perceptions of educational leadership practices that were perceived to transform Māori achievement in small rural primary schools. A kaupapa Māori framework was applied ... -
Leading the development of thinking for understanding within inquiry
(2010)The notion of teaching thinking is one that has been discussed extensively in modern education yet it appears teachers, school leaders and policy makers have a limited understanding of what exactly this thinking consists ... -
Leading the Marist Brothers tradition in Catholic secondary schools today
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. What are the understandings of leaders in Marist Brothers secondary schools of the charism? 2. In what ways is this commitment implemented by leaders in Marist Brothers secondary schools? 3. ... -
Learning and teaching experiences in an offshore programme : challenges and strategies
(2013)This study examines the experiences of learners and lecturers undertaking a computing degree delivered offshore by lecturers from a New Zealand university to students in Vietnam in 2012. It focuses on the learning and ... -
Look who’s talking? NCEA and learning partnerships: A case study of a lesson
(2006)This dissertation provides a ‘snapshot’ of one teacher’s response to the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) in terms of their classroom practice. If New Zealand secondary schools are going to respond ... -
Managing diversity to achieve ethnic inclusion in multi-ethnic secondary schools
(2014)This research is set in the context of New Zealand and specifically in Auckland secondary schools which are becoming increasingly diverse in terms of ethnicity. Leaders in these schools face challenges to manage diversity ... -
Managing quality in a wānanga setting : two sides of the same coin
(2014)Quality management is essential to leadership within complex educational organisations. An added layer of complexity for Wānanga Māori tertiary education is the imperative to manage quality between Māori and mainstream ... -
Meeting the demands of a new curriculum philosophy: A study of the challenges of curriculum implementation for small rural schools in New Zealand
(2009)This study investigated the implementation of New Zealand’s revised National Curriculum (NZC) in small rural schools to determine how the specific contextual factors of these schools impacted on curriculum design, ... -
Metacognition in a secondary school : the development of a collaborative and iterative professional development programme
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. What do teachers currently believe and do that is considered to foster students’ metacognition? 2. How might teachers conduct a collaborative inquiry into building capacity for developing metacognition ... -
Middle leadership of teams in large New Zealand secondary schools
(2010)Middle leaders of teams in New Zealand secondary schools are vital to the quality of teaching and learning and a large amount of responsibility for the leadership of learning practice has been passed on to middle leaders. ... -
Middle leaders’ decision making about staff development in New Zealand secondary schools
(2017)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. What are the expectations of middle leaders in developing staff in secondary schools? 2. How do middle leaders and teachers make decisions about staff development? 3. What are the staff development ...