This thesis reports on an ethnographic research project that explored the experiences and perspectives of a group of women in New Zealand higher education, including international and New Zealand students and partners of ...

This thesis investigates first-year students' challenges in making sense of the learning and teaching environment during their first semester at university. The aims for the research are threefold. Firstly, mapping the ...

The literature suggests that philosophies, worldviews and approaches of indigenous cultures may be key to an urgent shift in paradigm towards holistic ethics, attitudes, values and behaviours essential for an ecologically ...

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 ...

This thesis presents the findings of a project which investigated the impact of a parent numeracy education programme on parent understanding of, confidence in, and attitude towards numeracy. Eighteen parents of a year’s ...

For the majority of young people, puberty and sexuality education is an important source of information about menstruation. Menstruation is part of the Positive Puberty unit, Year Six to Eight in the New Zealand Health ...

Formalised nursing education programmes in hospitals which lead to registration as a nurse commenced in New Zealand following the enactment of the Nurses Registration Act 1901. This system of education, which continued for ...

A qualitative study of educational leaders who are mothers of colour in the context of Aotearoa.

Distance education has a well‐established heritage as an effective means of formal higher learning. Despite this, its role in theological education is actively resisted by many theorists. The main reason for this reluctance ...

How teacher educators can support preservice teachers to critically reflect on their teaching practice forms the primary focus of this thesis. Internationally, teacher education programmes have shown enormous interest in ...