Dr Martyn Reynolds who graduated with a PhD in Education last week, investigated the conflicts between Pacific theory and methodologies and Western educational contexts, with a view to improving policy, practice and outcomes.
The 2018 TeachNZ Scholarship round has started, and the ECE Scholarships open on Monday 4 December 2017 and close on Friday 23 February 2018.
This is an advanced call for manuscripts for Issue 23 (2018) of the NZAROE. Interested people are invited to submit proposals for papers that review current education policy issues.
Dr Louise Starkey, senior lecturer in Victoria University’s School of Education, has a passion understanding education in the digital age.
“It’s very rewarding to be able to study for a degree that is so relevant to my work,” says Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu (Te Kura), formerly the Correspondence School, Early Childhood Education teacher Helen McConnell.
“Studying the MEd at Victoria made me an authentic and knowledgeable leader.” That’s just one of the many benefits Shirley Porteous, Principal of Wellington’s Greenacres School, has realised from her studies.
Dr Chris Bowden, Lecturer in Victoria University’s School of Education, is not afraid to tell it like it is. His conviction that knowledge around mental health and wellbeing in children and adolescents in New Zealand needs to improve, is clear.
Associate Professor Joanna Kidman from Victoria’s Te Kura Māori (School of Education), says her research team found that rising levels of poverty had left Māori youth with fewer resources to prepare for the future.
A Victoria University of Wellington researcher is part of a trans-Tasman survey that has found significant support for giving teenagers aged 15 to 18 opportunities to be included in politics.
