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The experiences of international and New Zealand women in New Zealand higher education
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 ...
Mapping first semester challenges : first-year students making sense of their teaching and learning environments
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 ...
Learning for Survival, Resilience, Well-being and Continuance: An Epistemology and Pedagogy for Environmental Education/Education for Sustainability informed by Māori Culture
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 ...
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 ...
The Evaluation and Impact of Parent Education in Early Numeracy
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 ...
“Critical literacy seems really interesting, but why talk about menstruation?” A critical literacy approach to teaching and learning about menstruation
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 ...
Knowledge, power, and nursing education in New Zealand : a critical analysis of the construction of the nursing identity
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 ...
Invisible Women
A qualitative study of educational leaders who are mothers of colour in the context of Aotearoa.
A Comparison of Spiritual Formation Experiences between On‐Campus and Distance Evangelical Theological Education Students
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 ...
An exploration of the use of videotaped teaching and dialogue to support preservice teachers to critically reflect on their emerging teaching practice
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 ...