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New Zealand violin teaching contexts and their impact on teacher practice in private studios and out-of-hours music centres.

Jensen, Ahna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The out-of-hours music programme provides free instrumental music lessons to primary school aged children and has a long-standing history in New Zealand, dating back to 1929. While this government-funded programme has been ...
Barriers to Women's Career Advancement in the New Zealand Hospitality Industry

Macpherson, Leah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The glass ceiling effect is a widely researched phenomenon that highlights the multi-layered barriers to women’s exclusion in senior management positions internationally. Traditionally, research has focused on evidence for ...
An exploration of ako-rich teaching practices in an English-medium mathematics classroom drawing from the voices of Year 9 and 10 students, and their parents

Saunders, Karyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

Ako is a traditional Māori concept underpinned by the notion of reciprocity. Ako-rich teacher practices are considered important for creating culturally responsive classroom learning environments, particularly for Indigenous ...
We All Ascend Together: A teacher-oriented exploration into the affordances and limitations to developing learner agency in years 4-8 Aotearoa/New Zealand classrooms.

Layton, Kelly (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Educators and researchers agree that developing learner agency is necessary to ensure learners are prepared for a changing future. However, learner agency is not widely embedded across schools. This qualitative study ...
Vietnamese EFL teacher self-efficacy in practice

Hoang, Ha Thi Thu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Research has shown the importance of understanding self-efficacy and teacher self-efficacy. In general, self-efficacy influences humans’ actions in various ways. Efficacy expectations control the degree of effort and ...
Umufonotalatalaga ma faiā‘oga Samoa – Navigating Samoan teachers’ experiences in classroom behaviour management

Faamanatu-Eteuati, Niusila (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This qualitative research study explored Samoan teachers’ experiences of classroom behaviour management in the context of Samoan secondary schools. As Pacific teachers of the 21st century, we are encouraged to be resilient ...
Teaching and learning New Zealand's difficult history of colonisation in secondary school contexts

Harcourt, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In recent years, awareness of New Zealand’s history of colonial injustice has grown in national consciousness. This awareness has led to much questioning of history education, particularly New Zealand’s high autonomy ...
Meditative Breathing A Catalyst for Positive Change

Browne, Robyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The New Zealand government faces substantive challenges in meeting both the health and education needs of a significant number of our children who are vulnerable to alienation and inform the statistics of mental health ...
Philosophy for All Children: enhancing knowledge

Austin, Amy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Building students’ critical thinking has been a focus in Education around the world in recent years. The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) is no exception, with an emphasis on critical and creative thinking in its vision ...
Developing collaborative leadership practices in the Singapore early childhood education (ECE) context through professional learning communities (PLCs)

Vijayadevar, Sukuna Devi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Leadership in early childhood education (ECE) has been promoted as a collaborative process in which all teachers, rather than just the positional leader, are involved (Thornton, 2010). Collaborative leadership practices ...
Do structured manipulatives aid understanding of additive reasoning, and addition and subtraction fluency in a sample of Year 7 and 8 students?

Green, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Mathematical achievement may impact on outcomes in later life; thus, identifying and improving key mathematical skills is a focus of a large body of educational research. Both additive reasoning, and knowledge of addition ...
“HEY GOOGLE, HELP ME LEARN” Voice Assistant Devices in the New Zealand Primary School

Butler, Laura (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Artificial intelligence is being embedded into home devices and these have the potential to be useful tools in the classroom. Voice assistant devices such as Google Home or Alexa can respond to verbal instructions and ...
Teacher-Implemented Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instruction for Story Writing with Year Two Students in New Zealand

Finlayson, Kristen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Writing is a complex skill and many students struggle to learn to write. Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) for writing is an intervention strategy that can increase students’ writing performance. However, there ...
Learning through Play: An Interplay between Early Childhood Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in Aotearoa-New Zealand

James, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This study explores teacher conceptions of play and its relationship to children’s learning. It also explores how this influenced the role teachers took during play and the way they approached assessment. This case study ...
A mixed methods study on early childhood services' touchscreen tablet use and non-use in New Zealand

Santamaria, Michael Luke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

With the ongoing debate on young children’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) use in early childhood education (ECE), empirical studies have reported that the increase in young children’s access to and use of ...
Citizenship Imaginations: An exploration of young Singaporeans' active citizenship

Thaiyalan, Siva Gopal (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Nurturing young people to be active citizens has increasingly captured the imaginations of politicians and education policymakers in many countries in recent years (Jochum, Pratten, & Wilding, 2005; Kallio & Häkli, 2013; ...
Preference, Passing and Fresh Perspectives: Text Selection by Secondary School English Teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand

Hughson, Taylor (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) and the national secondary school qualification, the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), afford teachers an enormous degree of autonomy over what they teach in their ...
"We would never go back" Stories of early years teachers transitioning to play-based learning environments

Maguire, Teresa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

International and national interest has been growing around the use of play-based learning approaches in the early years of primary school. This qualitative study explored the journeys of five early years teachers in New ...
Questioning in English as a Foreign Language University Classes

Phan, Thi Van Anh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Vietnam has experienced many changes in education and in teaching and learning English as a foreign language since 1986 (Hoang, 2010). There are ongoing concerns about how to best develop English proficiency in EFL classes, ...
Investigation of the Association between Video Game Usage, Personality, Psychological Needs, and Wellbeing

Flueggen, Florian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Playing computer games has often been theorised to be linked to the wellbeing of users. However, the variables involved and the relationships and interactions between them have not been established. The purpose of the ...