School of Education
Research within the School of Education is driven by students working towards postgraduate qualifications, staff pursuing their own research interests, and contracts for funding agencies such as the Ministry of Education and other partners. Research interests in the School of Education include; Learning and teaching, theory and practice, Curriculum and development, Teacher education, Early childhood education, Adult and tertiary education and development, Schools, E-learning, Educational administration, and Professional inquiry and practice.
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A Review of Undergraduate Education Student Responses to the Online Component of Blended Learning: A Cautionary Tale
(Edith Cowan University, 2022)Calls for enhancing the digital interface for teaching and learning within tertiary institutions have played out in one School of Education, with variable results. Online learning tasks were added in 2018 to regular classes ... -
Ako: Learning from History?
(UTS ePRESS, 2022)This special issue of Public History Review has been edited by Fiona McKergow, Geoff Watson, David Littlewood and Carol Neill and serves as a sampler of recent work in the field of public history from Aotearoa New Zealand. ... -
Vocational Education and Training Reform in Aotearoa New Zealand
The Education and Training Act 2020 provides an opportunity to transform the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system in Aotearoa New Zealand to ensure participants are successfully prepared for participation in the ... -
What for the Future, From Learning the Past?
Important curriculum development work has progressed since the 2019 announcement that Aotearoa New Zealand histories would become compulsory learning across all schools. Much effort has gone into considering how learning ... -
A National Agenda on Reading for Pleasure: Insights From Communities of Readers Research
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What is a New Zealand Journal of Educational Research for?
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The End of the Dream: Postmodernism and Qualitative Research
(2021)This article revisits the use of postmodernist theory in qualitative research in education and related fields, where such ideas remain consigned to the “fringe”—or worse. What are the grounds for this ongoing refusal of ... -
A Passion for Ignorance? Not Knowing the Half of It
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Georgina Tuari Stewart on Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada
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Academic-Māori-Woman: The Impossible May Take a Little Longer
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)This year’s Waitangi Day, 6 February 2021, saw the revival of a favourite zombie in New Zealand politics when Judith Collins, the leader of the Opposition, complained about not getting a chance to speak during the formalities, ... -
Is Our Schooling System Broken?
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Word Weapons? Letters to Editors
This short commentary argues that academic letters to editors on politically-contested topics must be treated with particular ethical care. The interface between science and Māori/Indigenous knowledge is one such topic, ... -
Bringing Māori Concepts into School Science: NCEA
This commentary article discusses the inclusion of Māori knowledge in senior school science in the context of some new senior school science qualifications that are currently being trialled. These proposals raise challenging ... -
Defending Science from What?
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)The seven professors who wrote a letter to the Editor of the New Zealand Listener (Clements et al., 2021) present themselves as ‘defenders’ of science, but how valid, really, is this claim? Three of the authors published ... -
Experiences of New Zealand Children Actively Reading for Pleasure
(Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand, 2022)This study uses data from the Growing Up in New Zealand birth cohort to explore the characteristics and experiences of Aotearoa New Zealand children that may influence their frequency and enjoyment of reading. Previous ... -
The Impact of New Collaborative Learning Spaces on Tertiary Teacher Practice
(University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2019)Institutions may invest heavily into building and equipping new learning teaching spaces with the intention of encouraging active and collaborative learning to occur. However, there may not be a concomitant shift in teachers’ ... -
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 ... -
Globalised Language and Culture Policy Borrowing for Aotearoa: Colonisation, History and Language Power
(Scandanavian University Press, 2022)This chapter examines the introduction of intercultural competency into the New Zealand learning languages curriculum released in 2007 and based largely on the work of the Council of Europe. An important question is raised ... -
“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. ... -
What Needs to Happen for School Autonomy to Be Mobilised to Create More Equitable Public Schools and Systems of Education?
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, ...