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The University of Otago College of Education was formed in January 2007, upon the merger of the University of Otago and the Dunedin College of Education.

The University of Otago College of Education is dedicated to the enhancement of educational practice through high quality teaching, scholarship, research, professional leadership and community service, to benefit children, other learners, educators and the wider community (local, national and international).

Recent Deposits

Commercially Produced Literacy Packages: Why Do Schools Use Them?

Hughes, Rosalind Margaret (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)

The genesis of this study was anecdotal reports that Dunedin primary schools were using commercially produced packages to teach literacy. In wanting to understand this phenomenon, the study sought to find if the purchase ...
New Zealand Teachers’ Understandings of Cross-Curricular ICT Use and Integration

Stigter, Julie Rose (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)

This thesis explored the beliefs and understandings of a group of teachers in New Zealand (NZ) across the levels of compulsory schooling, regarding the use and cross-curricular integration of ICT. Two broad research questions ...
Factors affecting students’ academic motivation to achieve Excellence in Level 1 NCEA English

Garden, Rachel Mhairi Isabel (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)

The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing students’ academic motivation to achieve at a high level (for the purpose of this study, “high level” is defined as “Excellence” in the NCEA English). Students’ ...
A preliminary inquiry into the general effects of attendance at moving pictures by children of Dunedin

McQueen, Henry Charles (Thesis, Master of Arts, 1927)
“I am bad apparently.” The role of stand-down to manage behaviour in communities of learners

Towl, Patricia Hetty (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)

This study investigates how students renegotiate their membership of the school community following being stood-down from school. In New Zealand stand-down is the least serious of the school exclusion provisions available ...