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Sudarsan, Indu; Hoare, Karen; Sheridan, Nicolette; Roberts, Jennifer – Qualitative Research Journal, 2022
Purpose: This article aims to explore the meanings of positionality and demonstrate how reflective memos can illustrate positionality in a constructivist grounded theory (CGT) study. Design/methodology/approach: Acknowledging the positionality of the researcher through a reflective approach is an essential element of CGT studies. The first author…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Role, Constructivism (Learning), Grounded Theory
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Akuhata-Huntington, Zaine; Foster, Shannon; Gillon, Ashlea; Merito, Mamaeroa; Oliver, Lisa; Parata, Nohorua; Ualesi, Yvonne; Naepi, Sereana – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
As a collective, we reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted Indigenous students at a personal, institutional and national level in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders
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Cleary, Sabina; Kenton, Carmen – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2020
Christchurch-based science advisers Sabina Cleary and Carmen Kenton, from Kaha Education, talk about their experiences of supporting teachers during the COVID-19 lockdown. Insights from their experiences during a previous crisis guided them during COVID-19. They share their thoughts about useful learning to take forward as school life resumes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, School Closing, Disease Control
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Bates, Susan – Early Childhood Folio, 2018
All workers in New Zealand can expect to have their rights to health implemented in their workplaces. For early childhood teachers, health risks extend to the children they care for, as well as their own offspring. Teachers and carers in daycare and kindergarten are exposed to a range of diseases and sustain various injuries through work practices…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Child Caregivers, Occupational Safety and Health, Foreign Countries
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Bates, Susan – Early Childhood Folio, 2016
In the Hebrew story, King Solomon was asked to decide which of two "harlots" was the mother of an infant. His proposal to divide the baby between them revealed who could recognise the child's best interests. This ancient story has resonance for early childhood education, for although our curriculum holds the wellbeing of children at its…
Descriptors: Child Health, Early Childhood Education, Well Being, Mental Health
Neal, Terry – Commonwealth of Learning, 2020
A recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) report noted that nearly half a billion people -- one in six of the world's working population -- did not have enough work, were looking for but unable to find work, or had given up looking for work. Women and youth were over-represented in this group. Since then, due to COVID-19, the numbers of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, COVID-19, Blended Learning, Online Courses
OECD Publishing, 2020
The COVID 19 pandemic has disrupted education around the world. As the first shock passes, planning is taking place on two timescales: the short-term challenges in the return to school, and the challenges over the next 18-24 months as systems work to build resilience and adaptability for the future. This "Trends Shaping Education…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Testing, Disease Control
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Allen, Louisa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
Despite policy provision enabling sexuality education to address more than disease and pregnancy prevention, this focus continues to permeate many school programmes. This paper problematises the danger prevention emphasis in sexuality education, examines school's investment in it and asks how useful it is. The ways this kind of sexuality education…
Descriptors: Prevention, Diseases, Sexuality, Pregnancy