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Measure Twice, Cut Once. An Auto-ethnographic Narrative - Reflecting on Knowledge
(Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), 2013)Questions concerning measurement and assessment in the classroom most often refer to learning outcomes, achievement statements and value-added progression in literacy and numeracy, to suggest some key examples. This ... -
Motivation and challenges of married Emirati students in teacher education
(Natural Sciences Publishing, 2013)This article provides an insight into the issues married female Emirati students face in pursuit of a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) teaching degree from the perspective of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) context. Their views ... -
Naming the Early Childhood Professional: Artefacts, Childish Pursuits and Critical Questions
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This article addresses the problem of naming those who work with children in early childhood education setting. The article works through some perceived problems associated with shifting boundaries in the profession of ... -
Not the bottom, but the beginning: The failure of the teaching profession to value early childhood education
(Tuwhera, Auckland University of Technology, 2018)No abstract. -
Old Hands Advise the New
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Review of: Interviewing: A guide for journalists and writers, by Gail Sedorkin (2nd edition). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2011, 206 pp. ISBN 978-174237094. The best journalists are invariably good interviewers, ... -
On the Edge: Shifting Teachers’ Paradigms for the Future
(Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI), 2015)This project was designed to explore the conditions needed for New Zealand teachers to experience the transformational learning we argue is needed for future-oriented schooling. Its focus was teachers’ thinking. The research ... -
Passion: commitment to the kaupapa
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2013)No abstract. -
Pause, Breathe, Smile: a Mixed-methods Study of Student Well-being Following Participation in an Eight-week, Locally Developed Mindfulness Program in Three New Zealand Schools
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Children today face increasingly high stress levels, impacting their well-being. Schools can play a crucial role in teaching social and emotional skills; therefore there is a need to identify effective interventions. This ... -
Pedagogical decolonization: impacts of the European/Pakeha society on the education of Tongan people in Aotearoa, New Zealand
(SAGE, 2008)This article is an invitation to engage critically in the discussion of indigenous languages and cultures and the implications for pedagogical decolonization. Among the isses raised are questions of the impacts of the ... -
"People who need people... are the luckiest people in the world." Views of "career" by Maori
(AUT University, 2011)No abstract. -
Perspectives of Emirati women in higher education
(Contemporary Research Center, 2014)United Arab Emirates (UAE) women have enthusiastically taken advantage of the educational opportunities available for all after the discovery of oil. Their access to higher education has expanded considerably, opening new ... -
Play and the professional early childhood teacher: a personal reflection
(Childforum, 2014)This article draws together some reflections on play and educationalisation in the historic context of the contemporary professionalism of early childhood. Looking historically, I suggest that both play and education are ... -
Pondering a curriculum of inquiry into wisdom
(School of Education, AUT University, 2012)No abstract. -
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 ... -
(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 ... -
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. -
Revisiting the 'teachers' gaze': have we changed how we 'see' gender in early childhood education?
(New Zealand Tertiary College, 2013)In 1997, Glenda MacNaughton wrote the paper ‘Feminist praxis and the gaze in the early childhood curriculum’. In her final paragraph, MacNaughton challenged early childhood educators to revisit the ‘gaze’ after twenty ... -
School evaluation or disciplinary subjection? A consideration of the ‘complementary’ evaluation of New Zealand’s Education Review Office
(2013)Educational evaluation in New Zealand schools harmonises with the reformist agenda of public choice theory that applies dispassionate reviews of schools conducted by non–captive ex–teachers and school leaders, who work in ... -
Self-funded leave and life role development
(American Counseling Association, 2009)Self-funded leave is an employee benefit that provides a time resource to those who wish to develop interests and other life roles. Semistructured interviews were used for this qualitative study to explore the motivations ... -
Shaping the responsible, successful and contributing citizen of the future: 'values' in the New Zealand Curriculum and its challenge to the development of ethical teacher professionality
(Symposium Journals Ltd, 2011)The revised New Zealand Curriculum became mandatory for use in New Zealand schools in February 2010. The ongoing reform agenda in education in New Zealand since 1989 and elsewhere internationally has had corrosive effects ...