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Cardno, Carol; Reynolds, Bronwyn – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine dilemmas encountered by kindergarten head teachers with the further aim of developing their capability to recognise and resolve "leadership dilemmas". Design/methodology/approach: Action research was used to conduct a three-phase study involving 16 kindergarten head teachers and six system…
Descriptors: Intervention, Action Research, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness
Mansfield, Janet – Education 3-13, 2007
In this paper, preliminary comments are made about "The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum" document questioning its framing of the arts "disciplines". The notion of the "the arts", which appears to take its meaning from the generic term "art" that directs us to class together music, painting, visual art,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Teacher Role, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Curriculum
Thorn, Kaye – Career Development International, 2009
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relative importance of the motives and sub-motives which influence a highly educated individual's decision to move across global boundaries. Design/methodology/approach: The approach takes a multi-dimensional perspective of mobility, resulting in the development of a range of motives for self-initiated…
Descriptors: Migration, Motivation, Educational Attainment, Travel
Kearns, Robin A.; Lewis, Nicolas; McCreanor, Tim; Witten, Karen – Journal of Rural Studies, 2009
This paper explores the impacts of proposed school closures on families in rural communities in the South Taranaki region of New Zealand. We situate this instance of educational restructuring in a critical policy context and present an account of its regional unfolding through drawing on local media coverage. We then interpret narratives gathered…
Descriptors: School Closing, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools
Locke, Terry; Riley, David – Educational Action Research, 2009
In "The Educational Imagination," Elliot Eisner presents a theory of educational criticism and a form of qualitative research in education. Central to his theory is the notion of the connoisseur, a particular kind of observer who, on the basis of certain qualities, can be trusted to write an incisive and illuminating account of an…
Descriptors: Criticism, Theories, Qualitative Research, Educational Research
Stephenson, Maxine – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2009
Maori women teachers in nineteenth-century New Zealand have been little acknowledged in educational histories, and indeed, in some instances their contributions have been explicitly nullified. Those who have taken leadership roles have been no more visible. This article examines the silencing and exclusion from educational history of a young Maori…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Womens Education
Collins, Jenny – History of Education, 2009
An examination of the professional lives of women science teachers presents an opportunity to consider ways in which women became "knowledge purveyors" and to reflect on the extent to which they challenged contemporary boundaries about what science women should know. An analysis of the life of a woman science teacher who was also a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Women Scientists, Womens Education, Womens Studies
Falloon, Garry – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2011
This study explored the use of the Web-based virtual environment, Adobe Connect Pro, in a postgraduate online teacher education programme at the University of Waikato. It applied the tenets of Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance (Moore, 1997) in examining the efficacy of using the virtual classroom to promote quality dialogue and explored how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
Glotzer, Richard – History of Education, 2009
The Carnegie Corporation found its first great manager in Frederick Paul Keppel (1875-1943). Keppel's career is important to historians of education because interwar Carnegie initiatives, articulated through the Corporation's Dominions and Colonies Fund and Teachers College, Columbia University, internationalised American educational theories and…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Sciences, Corporate Support, Technical Assistance
Stuart, Margaret – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
"Strategy" is a word that has had an increasing use in recent years. The discipline of organisational studies has adopted this concept to set out the primacy of good business practices, such as foretelling risk and opportunity. Government policy documents use the term where medium- and long-term goals are set out, for example, the New…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
Stringer, Patricia Martha – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2009
Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature with an absence of debate on the implications of political, social and economic trends. This article explores capacity building in one low decile, multicultural, New Zealand primary school. The research, positioned within an interpretivist paradigm,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, School Culture, Change Agents, Foreign Countries
Deakins, Eric – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
Although international students studying in New Zealand desire and expect contact with their domestic peers, the level of cross-national interactions remains generally low. This paper describes an initiative to promote more and better intercultural understanding within a target group of students having similar needs and interests in a higher…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Tharmaseelan, Nithiyaluxmy – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2008
This study addressed career transitions in view of new environments along with the mobility of individuals across cultural territories. It paid attention to various adjustments individuals can make in their career in relation to their new environment and analysed those adjustment modes in relation to Nicholson's theory of work role transitions.…
Descriptors: Migrants, Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Occupational Clusters
Hill, Allen – Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2010
This article draws from a research project in 2007 with a small group of New Zealand outdoor educators. The purpose of the project was to examine teacher beliefs about outdoor education and explore the complex relationships between beliefs, values, and self-perceptions of pedagogical practice. Of specific interest was how theories of consistency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Beliefs, Educational Practices
Doherty, Iain – Online Submission, 2011
Continuing professional development for teaching is important for institutional renewal, teacher development and student learning improvement. However, our longitudinal research into provision of continuing professional development has shown that the majority of educators who attend professional development workshops do not put what they have…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation