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What can secondary student teachers learn from a day in a primary school? The impact of a primary field observation in secondary initial teacher education
This research examined the effects of a 1-day observation in a primary school for the 2012 (n = 68) and 2013 (n = 65) cohorts of secondary initial teacher education (ITE) students in New Zealand. Reflective journal entries ...
Creativity: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices
This study explored teachers’ implicit theories of creativity and how it is fostered in the classroom. There were two studies, the preliminary study and the main study. The preliminary study included one questionnaire to ...
Perceptions of Relational Aggression among New Zealand Adolescent Girls and their Classroom Teachers: The Popular, the Regular, and the Tough Girls
Relational aggression concerns behaviours intended to harm someone by damaging or manipulating relationships or feelings of acceptance, friendship, or group inclusion (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). The purpose of this study ...
New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project 1995-2009. The Pre-Conception, Conception, Realisation, and Contribution of an Educationally Principled Large-Scale Assessment Programme
This thesis is a researched account of the factors that gave rise to New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project, the design and practice of the project, and the contribution it made to knowledge of student achievement ...
New Zealand Teachers’ Understandings of Cross-Curricular ICT Use and Integration
This thesis explored the beliefs and understandings of a group of teachers in New Zealand (NZ) across the levels of compulsory schooling, regarding the use and cross-curricular integration of ICT. Two broad research questions ...
El camino se hace caminando: Using Participatory Action Research to evaluate and develop Peace Education practice in a Secondary School in Northern Nicaragua
Peace education (PE) is included in the cross-curricular themes of the Nicaraguan curriculum, yet in the Secondary School in Northern Nicaragua (SSINN) where this research was conducted there was varied implementation by ...
Doing right by Teacher aides, students with disabilities, and relational social justice
In this article, Gill Rutherford seeks to understand, from the perspectives of teacher aides, the influence of their work on the school experiences of New Zealand students with disabilities. Rutherford contributes to a ...