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Paradigm lost? : lifelong education in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s
(2005)The concept of lifelong learning is very prominent in many New Zealand educational policies and writings at present. Although the concept can be traced back to many early educational writers, it first emerged as a tour de ... -
Paradigm re-gained? the re-emergence of lifelong learning in New Zealand in the late 1990s
(2005)As argued in a previous article (ref. to be included), lifelong education disappeared off the mainstream educational agenda in most Western countries, including New Zealand, for most of the 1980s and early 1990s - “the ... -
Pedagogy in practice : an observational study of literacy, numeracy and language teachers.
(2005)The aim of this study was to gain an overview of how teachers teach literacy, numeracy and language (LNL) in New Zealand, by observing 15 literacy, language and numeracy teachers from tertiary institutions, community ... -
A pedagogy of biocentric relationality.
(Springer, 2013)This paper theorises some implications for pedagogies for ‘sustainabilities’ in the light of the current climate crisis, reflecting particularly upon the work of eco-feminist philosopher, Rosi Braidotti, in order to ... -
Personal Learning Environments for Supporting Out-of-Class Language Learning
(British Council, 2014)A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a combination of tools and resources chosen by a learner to support the learning process. The author discusses tools that help learners control their language-learning process—e.g., ... -
Personal learning environments for supporting out-of-olass language learning
(English Teaching Forum, 2015)A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a learner controlled environment for language learning. More specifically, it is a combination of tools (usually digital) and resources chosen by the learner to support different ... -
Podquests : language learning on the move
(Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd., 2007)Many teachers have used or at least heard about webquests. These online activities are great for bringing authentic materials into the classroom and for encouraging students to draw on a range of language skills at the ... -
Poipoia te tamaiti kia tū tangata: Identity, belonging and transition
(University of Auckland, 2010)In this paper we view infants, toddlers and young children as cultural beings and outline some implications regarding the need for educators to interrogate our individual and collective discourses pertaining to cultural ... -
Policy document analysis : a practical educational leadership tool and a qualitative research method
(Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık Education Consultancy (Ankara, Turkey), 2018-11-28)This paper presents policy document analysis as practical tool that can be put to valuable use by educational leaders and can also be adopted as a research method. Educational leaders are at the forefront of policy ... -
Pop the “maths anxiety” bubble: An approach to support nursing students to self-manage anxiety while studying drug calculation
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2021-12-16)This is a report on an informal action research undertaken between 2013 and 2014 to find solutions to support tertiary nursing students experiencing anxiety while studying drug calculation. The literature identifies ... -
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 ... -
Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand
(Frontiers, 2022-09-12)This paper provides insight into the evolution of a project designed to address longstanding adult attitudes and behavioural issues in junior and youth sport in New Zealand. The project was funded by Sport New Zealand ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
