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PhD and EdD theses:

NameDegreeYearThesis Title
Dr Saadia Yousouf QureshiPhD2022Understanding the problem of low performance in secondary science in NZ's low decile schools.
Dr Kate McAnellyPhD2022Expanding conceptions of the early childhood learning environment and autistic learners within it: A new materialist informed sensory ethnography.
Dr Charles DarrPhD2021Enhancing the validity of teachers' summative judgments through decision frameworks.
Dr Charmaine KwanPhD2021The Fiji Higher Education Sector 2007-2017.
Dr Kaitlyn MartinPhD2021Taking science communication to school: Improving student engagement with science through mobile filmmaking.
Dr Kimberly ArcandPhD2020Putting the stars within reach: NASA 3D data-based models in 3D print and virtual reality applications, and their potential effects on improving spatial reasoning skills and STEM interest in underrepresented groups of young female learners.
Dr William FlavellEdD2020He waka reo Māori, he waka eke noa: The motivations and learning experiences of non-Māori secondary school students learning te reo Māori.
Dr Keely BlanchPhD2020Young people (re)conceptualising digital citizenship: Constructing ways of being and doing citizen(ship) 'online'
Dr Owen ArnstEdD2019Spirituality in the Context of the Aotearoa New Zealand Primary School Classroom.
Dr Isaac BenningPhD2019Professional development for using technology in mathematics teaching in Ghana.
Dr Janine CampbellEdD2019

PISA, education policy, and the teaching profession: How context matters.

Dr Alison FieldsEdD2019Putting support where the learners are: A multiple case study of the practice of embedding librarians in New Zealand online tertiary classes.
Dr Elizabeth PakaiPhD2019Marakihau - An Historical Narrative of Māori Kindergarten Teachers from the 1950's to 1989.
Dr Kim BrownPhD2018Learning at the boundaries: Collective learning practices for postgraduate students arising from peer-mediated activities.
Dr Lara SandersonPhD2018All the little things: The experiences of New Zealand secondary school teachers living with impairments and/or chronic illness
Dr Rafaela Costa Camoes RabelloPhD2018Understandings of social investment in the oil and gas sector.
Dr Lakshmi ChellapanPhD2018The pedagogical reasoning underpinning the adoption and non-adoption of the flipped classroom model in New Zealand higher education institutions.
Dr Jack (John) GibbsEdD2018The lived experience of high achieving Year 13 boys using silent in-school individual study time during timetabled study periods.
Dr Esther SmaillPhD2018Social moderation: Assessment for teacher professional learning.
Dr Shire AgnewPhD2017“Critical literacy seems really interesting, but why talk about menstruation?” A critical literacy approach to teaching and learning about menstruation.
Dr Megan AnakinPhD2017The relationships among students' conceptions of equality and achievement.
Dr Donna PriceEdD2017Improving student achievement through feedback.
Dr Sylvia RobertsonPhD2017Principal perceptions of self and change: A New Zealand case study.
Dr Tracy RogersPhD2017'Doing the work of hearing': Exploring Cambodian school girls' educational persistence.
Dr Helen EmbersonEdD2016An exploration of the nature of physically active play in New Zealand early childhood education.
Dr Fi McAleveyEdD2016"Do you dance at work Mummy?" An ethnographic study of young children's perspectives of work.
Dr Gloria PenricePhD2016Rural primary school students' experiences of a university science outreach programme: Explorations of a cultural fit between students' culture and the chemistry outreach programme.
Dr Cecilia CooperEdD2015Invisible women.
Dr Barrie IrvingPhD2015Locating Social In/justice Within Career Education in New Zealand High Schools: A Critical Exploration.
Dr Iain MathesonEdD2015Slipping Down Ladders and Climbing Up Snakes: The Educational Experiences of Young Adults who were in Foster Care.
Dr Suzanne RennerEdD2015Generalist Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs for Teaching Dance.
Dr Lester FlocktonPhD2014New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project: The conception, inception and realisation of an educationally principled large-scale assessment programme.
Dr Philip MunroPhD2014Primary to post-primary: Issues in school choice.
Dr Mark NicholsPhD2014A Comparison of Spiritual Formation Experiences between On‐Campus and Distance Evangelical Theological Education Students.
Dr Merrolee PenmanEdD2014Do we have what it takes? An investigation into New Zealand occupational therapists' readiness to be self-directed learners.
Dr Victoria RosinEdD2014Teaching Teachers: The Influences on the Primary Science Pedagogy of First Year Pre-Service Teachers at Two New Zealand Universities.
Dr Jane TilsonEdD2014An exploration of the use of videotaped teaching and dialogue to support preservice teachers to critically reflect on their emerging teaching practice.
Dr Helen TrevethanEdD2014Associate teachers in New Zealand: Great expectations.
Dr Lester FlocktonPhD2013New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project 1995-2009. The pre-conception, conception, realisation, and contribution of an educationally principled large-scale assessment programme.
Dr Rachel GardenPhD2013Factors affecting students' academic motivation to achieve Excellence in Level 1 NCEA English.
Dr Adisorn JuntrasookPhD2013Narratives of leadership in academia: A discursive-dialogic analysis.
Dr Julie StigterPhD2013New Zealand teachers' understandings of cross-curricular ICT use and integration.
Dr Patricia TowlPhD2013"I am bad apparently," said Elephant; the efficacy of stand-down to manage challenging and recidivist behaviour at school.
Dr Anne WrightPhD2012Creating and sustaining an "effective" rural school : the critical triad - leadership, curriculum, and community.
Dr Michael GaffneyPhD2012The school experiences of a learning disabled student.
Dr Errol MoorePhD2012

Working with musically gifted children: Creating talent. A report on the learning in the music heartland project 2003-2005.

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Dr Ahmad OthmanPhD2012Teaching Mathematics in a Second Language in Malaysian Primary Schools.
Dr Angela PageEdD2012Perceptions of Relational Aggression among New Zealand Adolescent Girls and their Classroom Teachers: The Popular, the Regular, and the Tough Girls.
Dr Kate RiceEdD2012Building Nature of Science:Professional development model to enhance teaching practice.
Dr Denis SlowleyPhD2012New Zealand Secondary School Principals' Perceptions of their Role: A Limiting Form of Contingency Leadership.
Dr Lee SmithPhD2012

Gender and the School Formal.

Dr David BergEdD2011An international comparative study of the teacher efficacy beliefs and concerns about teaching of preservice teachers in Malaysia, New Zealand, and England.
Dr Scott LeePhD2011

Cognitive process mapping: Adapting cognitive task analysis to research and educational assessment of young children's thinking skills in the classroom. Abstract

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Dr Hang PhanPhD2011

Factors affecting the motivation of Vietnamese technical English majors in their English studies.

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Dr Marg Kendall-SmithPhD2010Investigation of the development and implementation of an Intercultural Learning module. Abstract.
Dr Jenny WardPhD2010Teacher knowledge of fractions: An assessment. Abstract.
Dr Vivienne AndersonPhD2009The experiences of international and New Zealand women in New Zealand higher education. Abstract.
Dr Madgerie JamesonPhD2009Understanding first year university students in a competitive learning environment. Abstract.

Dr Stuart Mundy McPherson

PhD2008Alchohol in society and education : Durkhemian perspectives. Abstract.
Dr Gillian RutherfordPhD2008

Different ways of knowing? Understanding disabled students' and teacher aides' school experiences within a context of relational social justice. Abstract.

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Dr Christina ThornleyPhD2008Developing teachers' literacy practice. Abstract.
Assoc Prof Jacques Van der MeerPhD2008Mapping first semester challenges: First-year students making sense of their teaching and learning environments. Abstract.
Dr Mary MilesPhD2005A critical analysis of the relationships between nursing, medicine and the government in New Zealand 1984-2001. Abstract.
Dr Brigit Mirfin-VeitchPhD2005Dislocation: Deinstitutionalisation in the lives of families of people with an intellectual disability. Abstract.
Dr Janet PereiraPhD2005Aspects of primary education in Samoa: Exploring student, parent and teacher perspectives. Abstract
Dr Julie DavidsonPhD2004Schools for the People? Church, state, and educational control in Scotland to 1872. Abstract.
Dr Kerry PurduePhD2004Inclusion and exclusion in early childhood education: Three case studies. Abstract.
Dr Susan SandrettoPhD2004Teacher education and social justice: Theorising professional practice. Citation.
Dr Ralph BuckPhD2003Teachers and dance in the classroom: "So, do I need my tutu?" Citation.
Dr John WaddickPhD2003Learning and teaching using computers in tertiary chemistry: A case study.
Dr Robert FiskPhD2002Threads of inequity: The marginalisation of New Zealand area schools. Citation.
Dr Jerry HoffmanPhD2002An enhanced model of Learning Support Practice. Citation.
Dr Sam HongPhD2002Evaluation of a web-based tertiary statistics course using a problem-based learning approach. Citation.
Dr Dayle MatthewsPhD2002Private training establishments and total quality management. Citation.
Dr Joanna DaiwoPhD2001Field-based training for early childhood education teachers in Solomon Islands. Citation.
Dr Judith DuncanPhD2001Restructuring lives: Kindergarten teachers and the education reforms 1984-1996. Abstract.
Dr Nancy HigginsPhD2001Blind people: A social constructivist analysis of New Zealand education policy and practice. Citation.
Dr Karthigeyan SubramaniamPhD2001Constructing classroom meaning with the integration of computer technology into teaching. Citation.
Dr Elizabeth Brooke-CarrPhD2000Creative mourning: The AIDS quilt Aotearoa New Zealand. Citation.
Dr Shirley GillettPhD2000Exceptional New Zealand females. Citation.
Dr Eileen LedgerPhD2000

Children's perspectives of their everyday lives with a focus on the transition from early childhood centre to school. Citation.

Master of Arts theses (2010-):

NameYearThesis title
Fiona Hagan2017Mathematics as a secondary subject: the girls' view.
Amee Parker2016Democratic theory and democratic education: A New Zealand case study.
Eileen Woodhead2016Poetry in Motion: A study of poetry in the kindergarten settings of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Sarah Bartley2015"It's maths! Emotions don't come into it": Parents' modelling of mathematical affect.
Karyn Fielding2015What can secondary student teachers learn from a day in a primary school? The impact of a primary field observation in secondary initial teacher education
Wendy Lawson2014Does that sound right? An Investigation into Communication and Information Sharing Between Classroom Teachers and Reading Recovery Teachers
Ahmad Al Khalifa2013Perceptions of online education at the King Faisal University: A case study
Keely Blanch2013

Identity, Facebook and education : students negotiating identity on a class' Facebook page.

Kim Brown2013Excellent Me! Investigating Scholastic Identities and Learning within Discourses of Excellence
Rachel Garden2013Factors affecting students' academic motivation to achieve Excellence in Level 1 NCEA English
Rosalind Hughes2013Commercially Produced Literacy Packages: Why Do Schools Use Them?
Shire (Carol) Agnew 2012

The discursive construction of menstruation within puberty education. Abstract.

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Julie Anderson2012

Teacher change and the intermediate numeracy project: A narrative analysis. Abstract.

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Christine Comerford 2012Creativity: Teachers' beliefs and practices. Abstract
Diane McCarthy2012Engendering ICT: Emerging women ICT professionals in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Ian Stevens2012

Preparing pathways to secondary principalship: Perceptions of the support required. Abstract.

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Kelli Te Maiharoa2012Kā Puananī o Te Reo as an Effective Means of Te Reo Me Ōna Tikanga Enrichment from the Perspective of Tamariki and Whānau
Kathryn McIntyre2011Māori knowledge in mainstream secondary schools: Issues of responsibility, engagement, and validation. Abstract
Lara Sanderson2011

I learn stuff: An ethnographic case study of disabled senior secondary students' school experiences. Abstract.

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Alexandra Smith2011

Whatever your mode of movement is: Media's place in young disabled people's physical activity. Abstract.

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Raylene Galvin2010

The benefits of peer support for online learners. Abstract.

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John Taylor2010Teenage reading: Personal reading beyond school; habits, attitudes and beliefs. Citation
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