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Ko toku reo ko toku ia mana: My language, my identity - The Pacific language nest: How language, culture and traditions are supported and promoted for the Pacific communities of the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau in Aotearoa New Zealand

Glasgow, Ali (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Within the early childhood sector of New Zealand, Pacific language nests have played a pivotal role in promoting Pacific education, language development and building Pacific communities. Pacific Island language nests have ...
Exploring the development of biological literacy in Tanzanian junior secondary school students

Juma, Zawadi Richard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Internationally, scientific literacy is a major goal of science education in the twenty first century. In Tanzania, where there is a widespread lack of public understanding about major health issues, biological literacy ...
Perspectives of learning during the transition from secondary school to university: A comparative study of first generation university students in Chile and New Zealand

Garcia Quiroga, Antonio (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

While tertiary education has grown rapidly in most countries in recent years, retention rates and educational success of many first generation students is still below that of their counterparts from tertiary-educated family ...
Raising Māori student achievement in the New Zealand primary sector: Principals perceptions and strategies for effective leadership

Te Huia, Vanessa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The role of the New Zealand primary school principal is fundamental in shaping the learning experiences of primary school students and the environments in which they take place. The decisions these educational leaders make ...
Overcoming Challenges: Pacific students’ experiences of being resilient through tertiary education

Perrot, Arden Raymond Dujon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The issue of raising Pasifika achievement levels in New Zealand has been at the forefront of Pasifika research as early as 1996 in the AIMHI report from the Ministry of Education. Nearly, 20 years on and the goal remains ...
The Relational Newsroom: An Appreciative Inquiry into how Leadership Empowers Learning in Newsrooms

Whelan, Bernard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The field of journalism in New Zealand has gone through significant changes in the last few years, with the onset of digital technologies, their impact on the funding of journalism and on readership, and in turn on the way ...
Ngāti Whakaue Iho Ake – An Iwi Science Education Exploration

McRae, Hiria Stacey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis aims to provide a pathway to improve Māori student engagement with science education. Internationally, some indigenous communities have worked with schools in the delivery of science programmes, resulting in ...
Learner-centred teaching in Tanzania: Geography teachers' perceptions and experiences

Mtitu, Evaristo Andreas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The shift from teacher-centred to learner-centred teaching approaches is one of the aspects embarked on to address quality issues in delivery of secondary education in Tanzania. The basis for a shift in teaching paradigm ...
The Challenges and Opportunities of Using Mobile Devices to Attain Māori Language Proficiency

McKenzie, Tabitha Gaylyn Kura (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

What are the effects of using mobile devices as part of teacher professional development focused on teaching and learning the Māori language for Māori immersion educational settings? Answers to this question are explored ...
Investigating the Implementation Process of a Curriculum: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea

Joskin, Anna Marisen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The purpose of this study was to investigate how policy intentions of the curriculum were received and practiced by teachers and to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation process. The study probed three levels ...
Critical perspectives on the transformative potential of higher education in Aoteara New Zealand

Grootveld, Chelsea Maria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The global economic recession has resulted in unprecedented levels of inequality among the masses and paradoxically extraordinary levels of wealth and fortune among an elite few. In Aotearoa New Zealand, there is a widely ...
Teachers' Misunderstandings that Affect the Learning of Their Pasifika Students

Spiller, Lorraine Teuila (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Much current Pasifika research has a focus on looking at traditional Pasifika ways of learning to find an answer for low achievement among Pasifika students. Non-Pasifika research seems to see the solution as entailing ...
Confucian Values and School Leadership in Vietnam

Truong, Dinh Thang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This research focuses on school leadership in the Vietnamese context, particularly the Confucian-influenced context within Vietnamese cultural boundaries. Confucian values are believed to be the significant and dominant ...
A History of Marginalisation: Maori Women

Gemmell, Monique (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis is a history of marginalisation as experienced by Maori women within New Zealand. My argument is that through the founding British Crown, the education system and Christianity, Maori women were marginalised ...
Exploring the Role of the Rock and Water Programme in the Improvement of Māori and Pacifika Boys' Engagement with School

McMillan, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The aim of this study is to explore boys’ achievement within a New Zealand secondary school. More specifically the focus of this research has been to look at the impact that an intervention programme – Rock and Water, has ...
Cambodian and Laotian Students' Experience of Language Barriers, Cultural Differences, and Teacher-Student Rapport in a University in Vietnam: A Grounded Theory Approach

Doan, My Ngoc (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

An increasing number of international students have enrolled in university degree programmes in Vietnam in recent years and this has presented a range of new pedagogical opportunities and challenges in the higher education ...
"She says that I'm good at reading": A Case Study of Engaged Māori Beginning Readers

Marshall, Mary Ann Meri Arthur (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The impetus and reason for this study has been a desire to discover and capture the 'spark' that causes Māori children specifically, to have a love of reading, to be enthusiastic about reading and, in turn to be confident ...
Pasifika Tertiary Students' Use of Information and Communication Technologies

Manueli, Kerese Tuifaktoga (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are pervasive in our daily lives. In New Zealand tertiary education institutions, the adoption of ICT is widespread. Meanwhile, Pasifika students’ participation in tertiary ...
Auto-Ethnography in a Kabyle Landscape

Taieb, Si Belkacem (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In this auto-ethnography, as an indigenous man in a Kabyle landscape, I take into account the relational experience that involves the development of a Kabyle identity. The indigenous cultures in North of Africa all come ...
Citizenship in Our Place: Exploring New Zealand Young People's Everyday, Place-Based Perspectives on Participation in Society

Wood, Bronwyn Elisabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Developing more active citizens has been a feature of policies in many nations in recent years. Educational curricula in particular have been viewed as an important way to deliver this goal. The revised New Zealand Curriculum ...