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(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 ... -
(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’ ...
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(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 ... -
(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 ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)Whaanau and schools in Dunedin developed an innovative solution to the issue of finding quality te reo Māori teaching for fluent tamariki. Ka Puananii o te Reo, a one day a week te reo immersion class for Years 1 – 6, was ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis reports on a possibly unique example of gifted and talented provision in New Zealand music education. The Music Heartland Project was a holistic programme of learning for musically gifted children based in eight ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis examines the professional practices of rural school principals in the province of Otago, New Zealand, to describe what it is about their practices that creates and maintains effective rural schools. The underlying ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)This thesis focuses on the process of change. In particular, how schools and the individual teachers who make them up experience and manage the change process brought about by their involvement in professional development ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The widespread use of English has led, in some countries, to content areas such as mathematics being taught in English, when English is not the mother tongue of either the teachers or the students. The main focus of this ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)A predicted high turnover of principals and senior school leaders due to retirements, combined with increasing demands placed on principals, has resulted in an anticipated principal shortage in New Zealand and many other ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This study investigates whether the school formal in New Zealand, like the prom in the United States, is a space where heteronormativity and normative gender codes are reproduced. I explore the gendered differences in the ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Within the disciplines of disability studies and childhood studies there has been increasing interest in disabled students’ experiences of school. This thesis builds on that work by drawing on: sociocultural theory, in ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)Menstruation is a significant milestone in a woman’s life, signifying the onset of puberty and the journey into womanhood. Yet research suggests that the construction of menstruation has many women feeling uncertain and ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)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 ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Education, 2012)The Nature of Science (NoS) has been introduced in the New Zealand Curriculum for English-medium teaching and learning in years 1 - 13 (Ministry of Education, 2007) as the overarching strand through which the contexts of ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Guided by the theoretical underpinnings of constructivism, this study set out to gain a realistic understanding of the role of the secondary principal as it is currently performed in New Zealand. In so doing, it sought to ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Drawing from self-determination theory as the main theoretical framework, this study investigated the motivation of Vietnamese technical English majors in their English studies and the influences that impacted on their ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)A significant challenge to Aotearoa/New Zealand’s involvement in the global knowledge economy, especially in recession mode, is enabling the participation of women from a range of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Education, 2011)This study compares the teacher efficacy beliefs and concerns about teaching reported by preservice teachers from Malaysia (n = 53), New Zealand (n = 100), and England (n = 119). Furthermore, it examines the validity of ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Education, 2011)Relational aggression concerns behaviours intended to harm someone by damaging or manipulating relationships or feelings of acceptance, friendship, or group inclusion (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). The purpose of this study ...
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