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Portable language learning : creating materials for the Ipod
(Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd., 2006-09)A recent survey at the University of Auckland showed that a majority of students had one or more mp3 players. Not many made use of them to listen to podcasts (audio broadcasts that can be downloaded from the internet on ... -
Preparing vocational students for future workplaces : towards a course evaluation of the Unitec Bachelor of Applied Engineering
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-24)This exploratory study set out to evaluate how well a particular course in automotive engineering is set up to enable students to develop skills necessary to enter the workplace. The research set out to identify trends in ... -
Productive school governance: Success case studies from New Zealand
(International Electronic Journal for Leadership Learning, 2008-01-01)The rhetoric abounds concerning the types of effective, high trust, interactions that should exist for a school governing body. In practise, however, such interactions are often difficult to define, establish, maintain, ... -
Professional development for new classroom spaces : extending the concerns-based adoption model
(Edinburgh Napier University in collaboration with Aston University, the Universities of Dundee and Auckland, 2018)This article outlines how a tertiary institution designed professional development, during the first year of a long-term building initiative, to support teachers moving into new collaborative learning spaces. The Concerns-Based ... -
Puni Reo Poitarawhiti: Playing in te reo Māori
(Otago Polytechnic, 2021-11)In May 2018, the inaugural Puni Reo Poitarawhiti was held at Netball Waitäkere, West Auckland. The first Mäori language-only netball tournament of its kind, Puni Reo Poitarawhiti (PRP) was open to all schools (kura kaupapa ... -
Putting the PLE Into PLD: Virtual Professional Learning and Development
(Journal of Educators Online, 2014)The range of affordances that a virtual environment offers can provide opportunities for more formal Professional Learning and Development (PLD) that has flexibility of choice, time and approach for educators. It was this ... -
Realising the value of performance appraisal for middle leaders in New Zealand secondary schools
(EARDA-Turkish Educational Administration Research and Development Association, 2016)This paper reports on a study that investigated the appraisal of middle leaders in three New Zealand secondary schools in order to determine what constituted effective performance appraisal and how this practice could be ... -
Reconceptualising child observation: Prioritising subjectivity
(2012)This article puts forward a rationale for early childhood teachers observing and interpreting 'objectivity', 'subjectivity' and 'intersubjectivally'. By 'subjectively' I am referring to the idea of teachers working with ... -
Recruiting and retaining learners in workplace literacy programs in New Zealand
(Australian Journal of Adult Education, 2013)Successful workplace literacy and numeracy programs are dependent on effective strategies to recruit and then retain course participants. This article reports on the recruitment strategies used in a large workplace literacy ... -
Recruiting and retaining learners in workplace literacy programs in New Zealand
(2013)Successful workplace literacy and numeracy programs are dependent on effective strategies to recruit and then retain course participants. This article reports on the recruitment strategies used in a large workplace literacy ... -
Refining family literacy practice : a New Zealand case study
(2006)Following the results of the International Adult Literacy Survey in 1996, there has been an upsurge of interest in adult literacy in New Zealand, as reflected in a national adult literacy strategy and ‘foundation learning’ ... -
Reflections on the place of content-based instruction in a tertiary EAL programme
(2011)This paper summarises the observations and reflections of a content-based (CB) practitioner and a language development (LD) specialist (also the researcher and the author of this article) on the use of content-based ... -
Reflections on the use of iterative, agile and collaborative approaches for blended flipped learning development
(MDPI (Molecular Diversity Preservation International), 2015-04-15)E-learning experiences are widely becoming common practice in many schools, tertiary institutions and other organisations. However despite this increased use of technology to enhance learning and the associated investment ... -
Reflections on the use of iterative, agile and collaborative approaches for blended flipped learning development
(MDPI - Open Access Publishing, 2015-04-10)E-learning experiences are widely becoming common practice in many schools, tertiary institutions and other organisations. However despite this increased use of technology to enhance learning and the associated investment ... -
Reimagining teaching as a social work educator : a critical reflection
(Australian Association for Social Work and Welfare Education, 2015)The purpose of the paper is to explore how the Bachelor of Social Work (bi-culturalism in practice) programme of Te Wãnanga o Aotearoa has influenced the author to rethink her teaching style, attitude towards using ... -
The relationship between critical pedagogy and assessment in teacher education
(Radical Pedagogy, 2003-03)Critical pedagogy has been debated for more than three decades and appears in many and varied constructions and characterizations. One of the key issues to be considered is the potential for implementation of critical ... -
Research agenda : language learning beyond the classroom
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-09-14)Most language learning research is carried out either in classrooms or among classroom learners. As Richards (2015) points out, however, there are two dimensions to successful learning: what happens inside classrooms and ... -
Research-informed teaching of adults : a worthy alternative to old habits and hearsay?
(Unitec ePress, 2013)How and why teachers teach the way they do is central to understanding the impact of education on learners. While many professions have integrated research findings into their practitioners’ practice, education’s record ... -
Responding to Pasifika adults' literacy needs through workplace programs : an evaluation
(Hawaii Educational Research Association, 2014)National surveys in 1996 and 2006 showed that a significant proportion of New Zealand adults have low levels of literacy and numeracy skills that make it difficult for them to function effectively in a world of increasing ... -
Retaining non-traditional students : lessons learnt with Pasifika students in New Zealand
(Higher Education Research and Development, 2006)New Zealand tertiary education is currently undergoing extensive reviews and re-organisation in its quest for achieving a ‘knowledge society’. Central to many of these new developments is the need to extend the participation ...
