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Empowering Students in Higher-Education to Teach and Learn
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Shephard, Kerry; Brown, Kim; Connelly, Sean; Hall, Madeline; Harraway, John; Martin, Jonny; Mirosa, Miranda; Payne-Harker, Hannah; Payne-Harker, Nyssa; Rock, Jenny; Simmons, Elizabeth; Stoddard, Isak – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2017
We explored opportunities, advantages and barriers to enabling students to establish student-led learning events at a New Zealand university. We used an action-research approach to explore if students felt empowered to use the infrastructure of this university to realise something that they themselves set out to achieve. We discovered that, in…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Action Research
Empowerment through Risk: Unpacking an Approach to Working in Dance with Pre-Service Primary Teachers in New Zealand
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Cheesman, Sue – Journal of Dance Education, 2016
This article, through interrogating, exploring, and probing my pedagogical practice, aims to probe the issues and complexities involved in teaching dance education with university students studying to be primary classroom teachers in New Zealand. Drawing on two decades of experience, working with students in initial teacher education programs,…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Securing Field Learning Using a Twenty-First Century Cook's Tour
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Fuller, Ian C.; France, Derek – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of incorporating digital video into a traditional Cook's Tour as part of a 7-day road trip around the east coast of New Zealand's North Island over a 4-year period. Student-generated video diaries summarized landscape features and processes at fieldsites, empowering students through active learning and small…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Field Trips, Video Technology, Diaries
Transformative Learning through Internationalization of the Curriculum in Higher Education
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Clifford, Valerie; Montgomery, Catherine – Journal of Transformative Education, 2015
Over the last three decades, universities have, almost universally, adopted the mantra of internationalization. However, the implications of internationalization for transformative learning through curriculum receive little consideration. This article draws on data from a fully online course entitled "Internationalizing the Curriculum for All…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Global Approach, Curriculum Development
Improving Indigenous and Ethnic Minority Student Success in Foundation Health Study
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Curtis, Elana; Townsend, Sonia; Airini – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This study investigates what teaching practices in the "non-lecture context of a foundation programme" help or hinder Maori and Pasifika students' success in a New Zealand university. This two-year qualitative project used Kaupapa Maori and Pasifika Research (KM/PR) methodologies conducted in three phases: (1) needs analysis, (2)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Indigenous Populations
Te Timatanga Hou: The New Beginning.
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Park, Hapai – 1999
In 1989, the University of Waikato (New Zealand) established Te Timatanga Hou, a program of pre-university remedial study for disadvantaged Maori. Many targeted students come from rural schools that do not offer a seventh-form year nor a wide range of university entrance subjects. Students undertake 1 year of intensive pre-university training…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Environment, Educationally Disadvantaged