Faculty of Education | Te Kaupeka Ako
Recent submissions
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The impact of student self-disclosure on the stress and wellbeing of tertiary educators during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2023)Workplace stress, burnout, and fatigue are commonplace amongst tertiary educators, and are compounded by the ongoing challenges of teaching and learning during a global pandemic. Amid efforts to identify and understand ... -
Parents’ perspectives : the transition into specialist schools with children on the autism spectrum in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
(2023)In this study, I explored the experiences of five parents’ transitioning their child on the autism spectrum ( into a specialist school in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I adopted an interpretative qualitative research approach ... -
The ecology of the transition to school : exploring the transition from ECE to primary school through cross-sector collaboration.
(2022)The phenomenon of the transition from early childhood education to school involves multiple groups of people and settings, who approach this vital milestone in different ways. This investigation explores the practices ... -
Understanding how ESOL programmes operate to support English language learners in New Zealand secondary schools
(2022)To know how teaching practices and pedagogies can be improved to support the ever-growing number of English language learners in New Zealand secondary schools, we first need to understand how ESOL departments are currently ... -
Locked out: Impact of Covid-19 on school relationships and staff wellbeing in Irish primary schools
(Social Personal Health and Education (SPHE) Network Ireland, 2021)The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was quickly felt in Ireland once cases began to be identified and rise in early 2020. While the impact on health services continues to be widely documented and researched, the effects ... -
Locked Out: Impact of Covid-19 on School Relationships and Staff Wellbeing in Irish Primary Schools
(2021)The overall aim of the study was to provide an opportunity for both principals and teachers to reflect on how Covid-19 impacted on their wellbeing and, by inference, the impact of the increased emotional labour of teaching ... -
Supporting reading comprehension and self-perception in adolescents with reading difficulties & the feasibility of literacy targeted PLD.
(2022)Purpose: This study aimed to better understand the benefits of focused literacy intervention for Year 8 students with literacy learning difficulties. The impact of the intervention on students’ metalinguistic knowledge, ... -
Understanding low stream graduates experiences in meritocratic Singapore.
(2023)This thesis is a qualitative study focusing on school leavers’ perspectives of their journey in Singapore’s meritocratic education system and the correlations with their life course circumstances. Through the lenses of ... -
Informed design of resources for volcano science education in Aotearoa NZ.
(2023)Volcanoes have fascinated humanity throughout history. Globally many of the world's population live close to active volcanoes. Volcanic hazards thus pose a severe threat to communities near these landscapes. Volcano science ... -
Investigating relationships between self-regulated learning processes and formal classroom science assessment.
(2023)Self-regulated learning (SRL) processes contribute to the short- and long-term academic success of young people. In particular, students’ SRL processes before and after a task predict learning and performance. The research ... -
He oranga ngākau, he pikinga waiora: ngā tāngata marae, ngā Ngākau Māhaki : pūrākau of Puna Reo Māori teachers
(2022)Within the educational landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, Puna Reo partial immersion Māori philosophical teaching and learning settings are enigmatic. For the purposes of this thesis, Puna Reo (language learning springs) ... -
University 'Values' and Neoliberal Marketisation
(2022)<jats:p>This editorial evaluates the potential impact of neoliberal marketisation on university values and culture drawing on the example of current bargaining between unions and university management in Aotearoa New ... -
(How) can health education help young people navigate an uncertain world?
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Connected classes : a case study of one high school's journey from a traditional to a future-focused curriculum.
(2022)Today, we live in a knowledge-based economy and educators need to design learning which focuses on the ‘knowledge and skills necessary for the knowledge age and where innovation is a valued commodity (Bolstad & Gilbert, ... -
Music room remix : six narratives of music teachers in secondary schools in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(2022)This thesis uses narrative research methodologies to explore the experiences of secondary Music teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Through taking a narrative approach a space is created for voices that are often unheard to ... -
E-portfolios in early childhood education : the work of freedom in (un)silencing the disciplining of bodies.
(2022)This thesis explores power/knowledge and truth in early childhood education, (un)silencing the disciplining of bodies in the e-portfolio space. Conceptualised as a political site, this space holds children’s and teachers’ ... -
Ki te hoe : journeying towards indigenising the early childhood curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(2022)This thesis explores the potentiality of the first bicultural curriculum for the early childhood education (ECE) sector in Aotearoa New Zealand and the world to bring about curriulum change. Known colloquially as Te Whāriki ... -
Foreign language anxiety and writing performance : the effectiveness of using a learner corpus and peer corrective feedback with students learning Chinese as a foreign language.
(2022)The teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language has been attracting the attention of researchers, language educators and other stakeholders worldwide. How to teach Chinese to non-native speakers effectively and ... -
A better start literacy approach: effectiveness of Tier 1 and Tier 2 support within a response to teaching framework
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)The Better Start Literacy Approach (BSLA) is a strengths-based approach to supporting children’s literacy learning in their first year of school. Previous research has shown the approach is effective at accelerating ...
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