A5066645344- Education Systems and Policy
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Adult and Continuing Education Topics
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Peace and Human Rights Education
- Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Engineering Applied Research
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Massey University
2014-2024
University of Turku
2020-2021
University of Maryland, College Park
2020
Cairns Hospital
2020
Columbia University
2018
Tallaght University Hospital
2016
University of Manchester
2015
Boston Scientific (United States)
2012
Defence Science and Technology Group
1998-2012
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
2003
Approaches that root national climate strategies in local actions will be essential for all countries as they develop new nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. The potential impact of action from non-national actors delivering higher global ambition is significant. Sub-national United States provides a test how such can accelerate emissions reductions. We aggregated U.S. state, city, and business commitments within an integrated assessment model to assess strategy...
This article begins by raising issues around the way in which ethical approval for research is managed university settings, where committees often base their assumptions on a principlist approach making number of that we consider to be contestable, such as neat separation between researcher and researched. However, collaborative action research, argue, takes issue with 'objectification' participants. It blurs distinction participant researcher, particularly when an element self-study...
"The toxic university: zombie leadership, academic rock stars, and neoliberal ideology." Journal of Education Policy, 33(3), pp. 440–441
This paper uses one national case to illustrate how diverse ideological agendas of central state agencies contest the discursive space within which major education policy reforms are developed. In Aotearoa New Zealand in 1988, 'self‐managed' schools were promoted ostensibly allow parents more say their children's and local school administration. The Tomorrow's Schools reform texts included an existing social democratic partnership rhetoric, positioning principals as professional leaders...
Abstract The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 emerged in December 2019 and is now pandemic. Initial analysis suggests that 5% of infected patients will require critical care, respiratory failure requiring intubation associated with high mortality. Sick are geographically dispersed: most remain situ until they need care. Additionally, there likely to be who retrieval for other reasons but co-incidentally SARS-CoV-2 or shedding virus. COVID-19 pandemic therefore poses a challenge care systems,...
Since 1989 in New Zealand, the work of primary school principal has been transformed official policy texts from that leading professional to chief executive officer. Surveys document changing nature role and workload other pressures have resulted, particularly for principals with teaching responsibilities smaller schools. There is a generally accepted crisis preparation, recruitment, development retention. Below surface, however, are deeper-seated, structural difficulties: women comprise...
Worldwide, there is a growing expectation that teachers will act in 'professional' manner. Professionalism, this regard, includes identification of unique body occupational knowledge, adherence to desirable standards behaviour, processes hold members account and commitment what the profession regards as morally right or good. In other words, ethical conduct. Teaching ethically involves making reasoned decisions about do order achieve most good for learners. Often, complex interplay between...
Abstract This paper examines recent privatisation practices in New Zealand public schooling. The standard political rhetoric is that free publicly provided schooling guaranteed by statute. position may be challenged reference to two apparently insignificant practical examples of the way which policy gives effect schooling: (1) commissioning national assessment strategy advice, and (2) award contestable funding for provision support services schools. It argued such advance neoliberal theories...
Analysis of the impact professional learning and development (PLD) programmes for educators is complex. This article presents an analysis a PLD initiative in which classroom teachers learned to use narrative assessment students with ‘high’ ‘very high’ needs. Using Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), showed how various tensions arose across activity system participants during initiative. Tensions were associated roles those involved, approach, rules While new approach resulted...
Video ethics in educational research involving children is a recent topic that has arisen since the increase use of visual mediums (such as photovoice and video) especially with development new ubiquitous internet technologies social media. This paper emerged an expressed concerned by group scholars associated Journal Education Pedagogy (Brill) was established 2016. The result collective writing process over period few months discusses studies education relation to qualitative education, it...
Background: A newly elected centre-right coalition government in New Zealand was forced to deal with the cumulative fiscal consequences of two unforeseen challenges: a global financial crisis September 2008 and major seismic events country's second largest city 2009 2010. This paper examines way which policies for initial continuing teacher education were reshaped thereafter justifications provided by these changes. Purpose: The plausibility government's contemporary 'crisis' discourse aims...
This article explores the ethical complexities of involving children in research contexts their families, schools and communities. We argue for an approach that is dynamic, reflexive, responsive informed by understanding how local cultures impact on shape negotiations practices around issues processes. use different sociocultural lenses to analyse processes at beginning a project which explored children's informal everyday learning. The contributes debates about with through foregrounding...
Although informal learning is part of everyday life it only recently that attempts have been made to more fully conceptualise its nature. This paper explores young children’s conceptions their and outside school within the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Phenomenography used systematically analyse variation categories descriptions in learning. From in-depth interviews with 36 nine-year-old children about learning, five description are identified, ranging from least most sophisticated. Six...
This article sets out to demonstrate the considerable extent which New Zealand school system has become saturated by private interests, and explain this development over time. It is first such overview of privatisation schooling in context. The analysis illustrates that rise actors involved some long-term factors as demographic cultural features society well market managerialist politics have reduced state resources schools agencies support them. More immediate enablers been created moments...