This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir

A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pakeha and Maori worlds offers important...

Leading Professional Learning-Practical strategies for impact in schools

Education and the Body

Education and the Body is a critical examination of the political, cultural and ethical issues that surround research on the body in education settings. The book highlights how the body is constructed in education and the nature of embodied learning...

Teacher Expectations in Education

The influence of teacher expectations on student outcomes is routinely explored by professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. Written by a leading expert on teacher expectations, this book situates the topic within the...

Teachers voyaging in pluralingual seas: Young children learning through more than one language

Teachers voyaging in pluralingual seas: Young children learning through more than one language is about young children who learn through more than one language in Aotearoa New Zealand. A considerable body of knowledge exists on second language learning...

Reduce Change to Increase Improvement

By drilling down to the beliefs and values that inform the actual practice of change leaders, Robinson identifies the mindset, processes, and actual behaviours that contribute to successful reform efforts and, importantly, provide school leaders with...

Christine Rubie-Davies' Becoming A High Expectation Teacher

We constantly hear cries from politicians for teachers to have high expectations. But what this means in practical terms is never spelled out. Simply deciding that as a teacher you will expect all your students to achieve more than other classes you have...

Expanding Oral Language in the Classroom by Jannie van Hees

ÒThink-aloudsÓ, Òword-wow momentsÓ, Òthumbs upÓ, Òcamera cameosÓ, Òthink, prepare, shareÓ are all part of the rich variety of strategies for expanding oral language in the classroom that Jannie van Hees describes. Her book is about why, and how, teachers...

Applied Critical Leadership in Education - Choosing Change

Applied Critical Leadership in Education provides an innovative way for aspiring and practicing educational leaders to think about and apply leadership practice suited for the educational challenges of today.

Complexity Thinking in Physical Education: Reframing Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research

This book highlights how the considerable theoretical promise of complexity can be reflected in the actual policies, pedagogies and practices of physical education.

Changing Trajectories of Teaching and Learning

The chosen theme of this volume, "Changing Trajectories of Teaching and Learning", encompasses the Faculty's strong research presence in ongoing teacher learning and in raising student achievement, particularly in lower decile schools and in the area of...

Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teacher's Perspective

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) by Martin East, is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in NZ. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT work in...