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Ki te hoe! Education for Aotearoa

This book addresses one of the most pressing questions for educators in Aotearoa New Zealand—how to enact te Tiriti o Waitangi and equitably privilege mātauranga, kaupapa, and tikanga Māori with mātauranga, kaupapa, and tikanga Pākehā. For those asking “how do we do that?”, this pukapuka provides research-based ideas and resources to begin to answe..  More

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Kia Tangi te Tītī: Permission to Speak

What constitutes successful schooling for Māori students in the 21st century?  Editor Paul Whitinui has reached across the disciplines for research insights, different voices and new models to address this critical and complex educational question. The book brings together academic contributions from the fields of mātauranga (education)..  More

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Leading to the North-East

This book  demonstrates how school leaders are able to successfully raise Māori student achievements to match that of their non-Māori peers, enable Māori students to do so “as Māori”, and benefit other marginalised students. ..  More

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Lessons From Beginning Teachers: Challenges for School Leaders

In Lessons From Beginning Teachers we hear the voices of new teachers as they recount both helpful and unhelpful experiences and bring to life research-informed suggestions for strengthening induction and mentoring programmes within schools.  This is not a whinging book but it does throw out challenges to school leaders to examine their pra..  More

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Literacy across the divide

This book examines significant questions related to information literacy learning and student transition to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It investigates important questions for student transition: what does it mean to be information literate in Aotearoa today? What could be the role of the library in our senior secondary schools and te..  More

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Locked Out: Understanding and Tackling School Exclusion

Schools work continually to keep students with challenging and difficult behaviour engaged in education. The message of this book is that more can and needs to be done. The audience of this book includes all those who work with excluded children: school, health and justice personnel; school trustees, parents and community workers.School exclusion i..  More

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Māori Pedagogies: A view from the literature

This publication reviews literature related to Māori teaching and learning styles.Manuscripts, archives, government reports, research reports, literature reviews, journal and newspaper articles, and publications and monographs were accessed to piece together a record of traditional and contemporary practices.The written record shows that Māori used..  More

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Mental Health Education and Hauora

This resource supports teaching children and young people about mental health, wellbeing, resilience, and interpersonal skills.  Teachers will discover ways to enhance student learning in four broad areas:- personal identity and wellbeing- communication and relationships with others- social issues and social justice (especially against discrim..  More

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Mental Health Education and Hauora for Primary

This book is the result of a collaboration between academics at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau and teachers in schools. It is an excellent resource for teachers wanting to teach about resilience, mental health, interpersonal skills, and wellbeing.It contains lesson plans for Years 1-6 designed to enhance learning to enable primary s..  More

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Mentoring in Early Childhood Education

Mentoring is a fundamental and increasingly important part of professional learning and development for teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand. This book is a much-needed resource for mentors, leaders and teachers in early childhood education.It is the first of its kind: a wide ranging compilation that explores the thinking, pedagogy and practice of ment..  More

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NCEA in Context

This is a ground-breaking account of one of the most complicated qualification systems in the world. The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is predominantly used in the senior secondary school in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its introduction between 2002 and 2004 signalled a seismic shift in assessment practice.NCEA in Context offers a..  More

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Optimising your Academic Career

Beginning a new career as an academic is a daunting task. Carol Mutch’s latest book aims to demystify the process by providing new and intending academics with an insight in what to expect. The book is based around the real-life concerns and questions that were raised by the early career academics she worked with in her innovative Emerging Scholars..  More

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Pacific Educators Speak: Valuing our Values

This book helps non-Pacific educators inform their work with Pacific learners and their families.  There are differences in understandings of the values important to many Pacific people between Pacific and non-Pacific heritage educators.  Pacific values of Belonging, Family, Love, Service, Spirituality, Reciprocal Relationships, Resp..  More

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Peer Tutoring: A Training and Facilitation Guide

Students can make huge gains in academic grades and confidence with the help of peer tutoring. This book provides practical, research-based strategies for anyone wanting to run a peer tutoring programme or to improve their own tutoring practice.The book focuses on two key components of tutoring: the tutoring relationship and tutoring tools. The aut..  More

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Peter Smith: His life and legacy in art and education

Peter Smith was one of the most influential art educators in New Zealand. During his 50 year career as a well-loved teacher, role model, mentor, and leader in educational policy he elevated the status and value of New Zealand art education to both national and international acclaim. He helped develop and draft the country’s first natio..  More

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Planting seeds

It is vital to support teachers and students in their engagement in the critical analysis of texts, especially now that students interact with an increasing volume of texts both in and out of school, largely due to the emergence of digital technologies. Planting Seeds is designed to go some way to addressing the lack of New Zealand-based resourc..  More

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Postgraduate study in Aotearoa New Zealand

This book is a survival guide to help postgraduates at each stage of their studies. The editors gave each contributor a simple task: “If you could go back in time to when you started your postgraduate studies, what would you tell your younger, less experienced self? What advice could you give to prospective or current postgraduate stud..  More

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Real in all the ways that matter

Mantle of the Expert is a form of inquiry learning  developed by Dorothy Heathcote that includes drama for learning—so it’s active, embodied, imaginative, and aesthetic. It’s agentic in that it positions learners as responsible, competent co-constructors of meaning and allows them powers to influence, make decisions, and grapple with complex p..  More

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Research methods in education and the social disciplines

For emerging researchers, introductory content that is specific to the Aotearoa context can be hard to find. Research methods for education and the social disciplines in Aotearoa New Zealand draws on the thinking of numerous local researchers to deliver an overview and introduction to research methodology and methods, in a way that closely ties wit..  More

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Research, Policy and Advocacy in the Early Years

This book brings together work by national and international scholars committed  to honouring and building on the work of a passionate educator and lifelong advocate for children: Professor Anne Smith.The authors take inspiration from her research, policy and advocacy work, including its international reach and its lasting influence to address..  More

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Responsive Pedagogy

Responsive Pedagogy: Engaging restoratively with challenging behaviours. Teachers are looking for new ways to respond to challenging behaviour. The premise of this book is that teachers can make a difference and that schools and early childhood education settings can be places where behaviour is addressed with courage and conviction.  ..  More

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Scaling Up Education Reform

What is school reform? What makes it sustainable? Who needs to be involved? How is scaling up achieved? This book is about the need for educational reforms that have built into them, from the outset, those elements that will see them sustained in the original sites and spread to others. Using the Te Kotahitanga Project as a model the authors bra..  More

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Statistical investigations | Te tūhuratanga tauanga

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Statistical Investigations | Te Tūhuratanga Tauanga thread in Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (TMoA) and The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC). It collates research and best practice in the area from Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally, and shows the development of statistical concepts that form the found..  More

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Successful Educational Leadership in New Zealand

This book features case studies of 11 New Zealand educational leaders, both as testimony to the extraordinary work of these leaders and to help aspiring, new and experienced practitioners understand more about their leadership role. The case studies reveal some of the exhilaration of being a leader in different school/centre settings and identif..  More

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