Browsing Education Conference Papers by Title
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The 'call to adventure' : learner agency in the traditional school
(2014-10)In this presentation I will share how students in my Level 2 NCEA class and I worked together to bring more agency into the learner experience as well as my teaching practice. Through this action research project I was ... -
Can we improve participation in university course surveys using mobile tools? : a practical experiment
(2014-12)Student course surveys provide an important feedback mechanism for universities. However the quality of this feedback depends largely on the level of participation. New technologies have enabled course surveys to evolve ... -
Capturing immediate feedback in the classroom: An embedded action research study
(Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, 2003-07)This paper explores emergent results from one action research ‘project within a project’ (PWP). A large action research project (ARP) was conducted in semester 1, 2002 across two schools within the same faculty. Whilst the ... -
Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Research House: a collaboration between student design–makers and a local building contractor
(Monash University, 2019-10)Carter Holt Harvey Research House was a summer–school programme designed for architectural students to digitally design and fabricate a small dwelling in conjunction with construction professionals. The design required ... -
Catering for individual needs in infants & toddlers
(2014-08-23)* As teachers we are obliged to abide by the code of ethics and do what is right for each child and their families * This is further strengthened by the Regulations 2008 which states that the curriculum should: Respect ... -
The challenge of reaping a harvest from school-based learning initiatives: Sources of learning through the perspectives of school leaders, teachers and students
(2010)Implementing and sustaining school-wide learning initiatives through a wider distribution of leadership is espoused as a means of generating a higher quality ‘harvest’ of student learning outcomes. Two in-depth 20-month ... -
Challenging positional authority : navigating leadership as collaboration
(2016-08-05)Challenging positional authority Collective nature of leadership Kaupapa Māori model of leadership Building people’s capabilities Sustainable leadership Distributed leadership is transformational -
Changing from Learning Stories to Learning Notes
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Children in a community of learners: Encouraging respectful interactions
(2013)Questions to consider: What do children learn from how we treat them? What impact does our treatment have on them as members of a community? What does it mean to hold children in unconditional positive regard? Some ... -
Children's art, children's languages: A Mirror of the "hundred languages" of children, in and through their creative expressions.
(2014)This research has at its core a deep respect for children and artistic, non-verbal and linguistic expression. It seeks to explore the depth and complexity in the artwork particularly the visual arts that may reveal a sense ... -
Collaborative practice : medicine and pharmacy working together to teach safe prescribing in the clinical setting
(2016-09)We used a matrix of teaching and supervision interventions and sought to: Develop the role of the pharmacist as a teacher, mentor and coach working in collaboration with consultants as medical educators. Bring ... -
Collaborative teams : [The investigation of how collaborative processes and team dynamics impact on collaborative teaching in a New Zealand context]
(2016-10)The focus of this research in progress is to explore teachers’ perceptions of the nature and impact of collaborative teaching by specifically addressing practice-based collaborative interactions. The main question that ... -
Committed Sapiential Circles
(2014)Possibilities for Post/Counter-Colonial Research With Children Early childhood care and education settings are sites of potentiality, of “immense possibility and power” (Batycky, 2008, p. 176), yet situated in contexts ... -
Communication styles of international students : teaching to their strengths
(2015-02)Aim: To investigate whether the communication styles of the students were compatible with the nature of teaching they were receiving. • Identify the communication skills held by the programme participants • See ... -
A Community approach to staff development in eLearning
(2012)This narrative seeks to identify practices that have enabled staff in eLearning roles to support their peers to increase the use of eLearning within a New Zealand tertiary education context. Specifically, it examines those ... -
A comparison of group learning-style profiles; construction students, law students & student teachers
(2007)If the extent of the literature is an indicator, educationalists believe that student learning styles are important (see Coffield et al, 2005 for an extensive review). One stream of the literature argues that within all ... -
Competence development in advanced and emerging construction technologies
(Curtin University (Bentley, Western Australia), 2018-09)Digitalisation is affecting all aspects of the built environment altering the approach in which the design content is conceptualized, project is delivered and buildings are used. This has created a need to provide innovative ... -
The complexity of distributed forms of leadership in practice
(International Leadership Association (ILA), 2013)Distributed leadership is a free-floating concept that is often oversimplified as a mode of leadership and development suitable for twenty-first century organisations, particularly in education. This paper provides an ... -
Constructing a professional education : a new architecture degree at Unitec 1994.
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2015-12)Abstract: In 1994 Unitec Institute of Technology welcomed its first cohort of enthusiastic students into the new Bachelor of Architecture programme within the School of Architecture and Construction. This new programme, a ... -
Construction Practices short blended course
(2016-02)Construction Practices Course details Approach Results - class averages Results - final grades Issues
