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Tightening the Grip on the Slippery Pole: The Globalisation of Control from the New World Order to the War on Terror
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2005)
Review of Adult and Community Education (ACE) Funding Framework Consultation Document
(University of Canterbury. Continuing and Bridging Education, 2005)
This paper is one of three commissioned by ACE Aotearoa. It is intended to review
the TEC consultation document on the proposed new funding framework released on
9 March 2005. The first part of this paper provides an ...
State of the nation : a comparative analysis of teacher professional development with ICT between ICT PD clusters and non-ICT PD schools : research project.
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2005)
Professional Development programmes in Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT PO) in schools have had significant growth since the development of successive
national ICT strategies by the Ministry of Education. ...
"Excuse me, do we put a border around it?" - the culture of learning that provides opportunities for students to learn or not learn in middle school classrooms
(University of Canterbury. Education, 2005)
This study examines the way that middle school students' classroom experience shapes how they learn. The ways that the culture of learning created in the classroom provides opportunities for students to learn or not learn ...
Early childhood teachers' responding to family diversity
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2005)
Why should sexualities matters matter in early childhod education?
1)sexualities isues impact on our ideas of who
and how teachers in early childhod education
can 'be'
2)sexualities isues impact on our understandings
of ...
Conceptualising Social Space in Cyberspace: A Study of the Interactions in Online Discussion forums
(University of Canterbury. Education, 2005)
The study introduces an alternative analytic framework for the investigation of online discussion forums. It focuses on the social dynamics occurring in online discussion threads situated within a tertiary e-learning ...
Strategies to enhance reading comprehension for the NESB students : research project.
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2005)
Reading skills are essential for all students for their successful
advancement through school and on into adult life. With limited English,
many Non English Speaking Background (NESB) students are
under-achieving at ...
The effects of reinforcing different work requirements in the classroom : a dissertation.
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2005)
Positive reinforcement contingencies are often used by teachers to improve the
academic performance of inattentive and poorly motivated children in the classroom. Previous
research suggests that the response dimension ...
Early years teachers working for inclusion with rainbow families
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2005)
How can
we, as scholars, policy makers and teachers of young children work in ways that
unsettle the silencing of queer lives in our educational settings, or even, should we
presume that it is desirable to do so? By ...
An investigation of the effectiveness of using advance organizers and literacy strategies to promote student learning in mathematics : a research report.
(University of Canterbury. School of Professional Development, Centre for Postgraduate Studies, 2005)
This study was designed to improve motivation and attitude towards mathematics in a
mainstream Year 10 class, in a co-educational urban school. Many students in the
class displayed a lack of endurance with set tasks, and ...