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Action research: A developmental approach

Here is a book to inspire, inform, and guide action researchers and enhance the quality and effectiveness of their projects. It provides a practical guide for practitioners who are undertaking research in their own workplaces. There are frameworks for planning and developing action research projects along with practical examples. These examples ..  More

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After Disaster

This book discusses responses to the psychological consequences of disasters for children and young people. Children and young people are the focus of this book. In many ways, their reactions to disaster may be similar to those of adults. However, thedevelopmental and age-related needs of children and adolescents mean that the impact on them..  More

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Autism Spectrum Disorder in Aotearoa New Zealand

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex and increasingly prevalent condition which most educators will encounter during their career. This book aims to help teachers and other education professionals provide for children and young people with ASD at all levels of education.This is not a compilation of academic research but an evidence-based pra..  More

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Better Classroom Relationships

The usual approaches to classroom relationships are either teacher-centred or student-centred. This book breaks new ground in its exploration of relationship-centred classrooms.In relationship-centred classrooms, the teacher and the student are equally important. That shifts the focus to the quality of their interaction and whether it is supporting..  More

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Bicultural principles of teaching and learning online

This resource sets out 11 principles that are inherent in best practice for teaching and learning in an online bicultural delivery environment.The intention of these principles is to provide all kaiako with a shared understanding of online teaching expectations that embrace tikanga principles and practices throughout all areas of their online teach..  More

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Changing our secondary schools

This is a powerful critique of two decades of educational reform in New Zealand, from an educator who was deeply involved. It is also a provocative call for action. Bali Haque has been both a secondary school principal required to implement reform and a senior public servant in the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) tasked with push..  More

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Changing Trajectories of Teaching and Learning

  This monograph is the first in a series that is designed to highlight areas of research strength found at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education. The chosen theme of this first volume, “Changing trajectories of teaching and learning”, encompasses the Faculty’s strong research presence in ongoing teac..  More

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Coaching Leadership (2nd edition)

Coaching Leadership is about building leadership capacity in individuals, and in institutions, through enhancing professional relationships. It is based on the importance of maximising potential, and harnessing the ongoing commitment and energy needed to meet personal and professional goals.This book is for anyone interested in developing leadershi..  More

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Critic and Conscience - Essays on Education

John Codd and Roy Nash lived the role of critic and conscience. During long academic careers at Massey University, they made lasting contributions to educational scholarship and to education policy and practice in this country, and they achieved international recognition for their work. John Codd was best known for his robust analysis and critiq..  More

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Crossing the Border

Crossing the border has been written for early childhood education and primary school teachers who are interested in the transition from ECE to school. How to provide continuity and build connections between the two sectors has always been a focus for teachers, but up until now there has been little advice as to exactly what this means in pr..  More

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Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice

This book examines decolonisation and Māori education in Aotearoa New Zealand in ways that seeks to challenge, unsettle and provoke for change.Editors Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan have drawn together leading Māori writers and intellectuals on topics that are at the heart of a decolonising  education agenda, from  tribal educatio..  More

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Disciplining and drafting, or 21st century learning?

Will today’s curriculum prepare secondary school students for life in the 21st century?  Rachel Bolstad and Jane Gilbert propose radical new models for schooling that challenge long-held ideas about the purpose and structure of the senior secondary years. They take a specific look at the curriculum that is taught in Years 11&n..  More

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Diversity in community: Indigenous scholars writing

This book celebrates and reflects on what it takes to build a dynamic community of Māori scholars.It is the story of the community that was purposefully nurtured through the Māori and Indigenous Graduate Enhancement programme (MAI) and the International Indigenous Writing retreats organised by Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga, Aotearoa New Zealand’s Māori ..  More

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Education Studies in Aotearoa

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core disciplines, and contemporary concerns, that inform the study of education in Aotearoa. As a collection, the work provides a critical account of education policy trajectories and speculates on their limits and possibilities in the changing social and political landscape of Aotearoa New Zea..  More

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Elwyn Richardson and the Early World of Creative Education in NZ

From a one-roomed school in the remote Far North of New Zealand, Elwyn Richardson became a radical and internationally-renowned teacher. This is his story and it is as inspirational and timely for educators and policy makers as ever.This book explores the man and the influence of the innovative pedagogy he developed at Oruaiti School from 1949 to 1..  More

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Enhancing Equity through Inquiry

An indispensable tool for teachers, school leaders, and educational researchers looking to increase equity throughout schools. It demonstrates how research can work hand in hand with practice to enhance marginalised students’ learning opportunities and improve their life chances. ..  More

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Geography in Focus

This book is a comprehensive and stimulating discussion of issues-based geography education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is an essential read for geography teachers and educators from the wider social sciences.Geography as a subject gets little attention in curriculum and assessment literature. Seeking to address that gap, the authors - teachers and..  More

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Getting Published: A guide for researchers

The advent of the Performance-based Research Fund has brought additional pressures on researchers and tertiary educators to publish. For many this is a daunting task. Using the extensive experience of a researcher and teacher educator; an editor; and a publisher, this book sets out to demystify the publishing process and ..  More

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Giftedness in the Early Years: Informing, Learning and Teaching

This book is about changing perceptions—helping parents, early years teachers, and other key individuals to understand giftedness, and providing them with resources to help in identification and assessment for learning. The main audience is teachers in the early years, but the content will also be informative and helpful to parents, managers, prin..  More

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History Matters: Teaching and learning history in New Zeland

History Matters reflects the dynamic nature of teaching and learning history in New Zealand secondary classrooms. It demonstrates not only the wealth of enthusiasm and expertise within the history teaching community,but also a commitment by teachers to developing a research literature on historical thinking that is ‘for teachers and by tea..  More

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In the Early World

In the Early World is one of the great books about New Zealand education and is unique in presenting creativity at the centre of children's learning. Although In the Early World was first published in the 1960s it is as relevant now as it was then. Integrated curriculum, values education, the arts, inquiry learning, philosophy, and creative ..  More

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In the Early World: De school van Oruaiti

Dutch Translation by Jan Hooiveld.In the Early World helped change the course of education in New Zealand and across the world.Described by one reviewer as “possibly the best book about teaching ever written”, this book is important not only as a brilliant demonstration of the creative capacities of all children but also in its profound implication..  More

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Issues in Solomon Islands Education

This book makes available to a wider audience for the first time material based on fieldwork carried out by the Solomon Island researchers in their own country. The findings will have vital relevance to policy makers, teachers and students. Over the past four years the School of Education, Solomon Islands College of Higher Education and the ..  More

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Key Competencies for the Future

This book is an exhilarating journey into the set of ideas known as the key competencies. The authors employ creative zeal and the collective wisdom of more than a decade of research on the subject as they dig deep into what the key competencies mean and their purpose within the New Zealand Curriculum. They lay out rich new possibilities for edu..  More

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