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Practitioner Inquiry: Shifting the Role from Consumers to Producers of Knowledge
(Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2016)This paper emerges from the preliminary findings of study of a cohort of postgraduate initial teacher education alumni that are now practising teachers. We reflect on the potential of practitioner inquiry in positioning ... -
Preparing EAL students for the interactional demands of mainstream group assessment projects
(TESOLANZ, 2006)For NESB (Non English Speaking Background) students, the adjustments required to study successfully at a tertiary institution are varied and taxing (Myles & Cheng, 2003). Probably the greatest difficulty they encounter is ... -
Preschoolers' and Adults' Animism Tendencies Toward a Humanoid Robot
(Elsevier, 2021)This study examined whether three- and five-year-old children and adults changed their perceptions of a robot after a naturalistic interaction with it. We examined whether participants exhibited animism errors (i.e., ... -
Producing Bollywood: sustainability and the impacts on Auckland’s cultural economy
(New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI), 2014)This paper examines the variety of ways producers, as entrepreneurs; create sustainable production networks within the local as well as connecting to global Indian communities. This ethnographic research demonstrates various ... -
Production Networks: Indian Cultural Production in Aotearoa, New Zealand
(Varna University of Management, 2016)No abstract. -
Promoting Fathers' Participation in Early Learning Centres
(New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC), 2022)Fathers' participation in Early Childhood Education (ECE) has been recognised to positively influence young children's and their families' wellbeing (Rollè et al., 2019, White et al., 2011). This study examined the influence ... -
Pronunciation teaching: getting stress without getting stressed
(Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA), 2014)It has been established that stress plays an important role in intelligibility, but few studies have investigated teaching stress. This paper reports on the findings of two small-scale exploratory studies which investigated ... -
Psychosocial factors impacting job dissatisfaction and burnout in New Zealand’s hospitality industry
(The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), 2015)Job dissatisfaction and burnout in the New Zealand restaurant industry: The mitigating impact of psycho-social factors This presentation examines the problem of job dissatisfaction in the NZ restaurant industry, how it is ... -
Public Education Unbounded: Reflection on the Publicness of Green School New Zealand
(NZAROE, VUW, 2021)Green School New Zealand is a private school whose school fees confirm for critics the inequity of private education, but the school may contribute to an alternative vision of public education if its commitment to ... -
Pursuing Equal Pay: The Perspectives of Female Engineers and Potential Policy Interventions
(Sage, 2016)The gender pay gap of higher paid women working in traditionally male-dominated sectors has received less analysis in equal pay research than low paid, female-dominated and undervalued women’s work. This article explores ... -
(Re)inhabiting Waldorf Education: Honolulu Teachers Explore the Notion of Place
(Educational Journal of Living Theories (EJOLTS), 2017)This article tells of an unfinished journey we took with a group of teachers in Honolulu as we investigate and navigate notions of place and belonging. We explain how we are developing and transforming relationships with ... -
“Reading Enjoyment” is Ready for School: Foregrounding Affect and Sociality in Children’s Reading for Pleasure
While debate on declines in children’s literacy is ongoing in Aotearoa New Zealand, very little attention in research and policy is paid to reading enjoyment and its capacity to support the reading development of children. ... -
Reading for Pleasure For the Collective Good of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Reading the 'Ghost Book': Māori Talk About Washday at the Pā, by Ans Westra
(Springer, 2018)Washday at the Pā was an old school journal - a book designed for young readers, containing a photo-story of a typical day at home for a Māori mother and her children. Washday was published in 1964 by School Publications ... -
Rebooting biculturalism in education in Aotearoa-New Zealand
(Tuwhera, Auckland University of Technology, 2018)A response to Christine Jenkin (2017). Early childhood education and biculturalism: Definitions and implications. New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 14(1), 8-20. -
Reconnecting Teachers and Their Work. Mid-career Teachers Engaging in Qualification Based Practitioner Research
(University of Cumbria, 2021)Encouraging all students to meaningfully engage with feedback on summative assessments is a vexing challenge for educators (Watling, 2016). Using formative feedback techniques as a formal part of a summative assessment ... -
Reflection and dialogue on postgraduate professional development for experienced language teachers
(RMIT Publishing, 2013)Recent discussion has focused on the benefits and constraints of using and teaching reflection for professional self-development (Farrell, 2007; Volk, 2010). Alongside this is an interest in the value of dialogue in teacher ... -
Reflections of Battlefield Tourist Experiences Associated With Vietnam War Sites: an Analysis of Travel Blogs
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The aim of this paper is to analyse online travel blogs in order to gain an understanding of the reflections held by battlefield tourists in Vietnam. A qualitative approach utilising thematic analysis was conducted on 20 ... -
Reflective practice and action research as a source of pre-service and in-service professional development and classroom innovation: burden or benefit? myth or reality?
(AUT University, 2005)The concept of the teacher as reflective practitioner and teacher as researcher of his/her own classroom practice now has a long 20th and 21st century tradition and is promoted widely in the teacher education literature ... -
Reflective Practice and the Element of Surprise in Technology Enhanced Learning
(Scholarship of Technology Enhanced Learning (SoTEL), 2022)This is a concept paper which draws attention to the element of ‘surprise’ when it comes to educators’ self-reflections and which I apply to my own experience of implementing new forms of pedagogy in relation to technology ...