{"title":"Innovative learning environments in New Zealand: Student teachers' perceptions.","authors":"Jo Fletcher, John Everatt","doi":"10.1007/s40841-021-00195-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40841-021-00195-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Innovations in schooling and the architectural design of schools offer the opportunity to re-examine existing pedagogical practices. Graduating teachers need to be ready to teach and conversant with changing school environments and approaches to school organisation. However, there is a dearth of research that explores the student teachers' perceptions of their experiences on practicum in innovative learning environments (ILEs). This article discusses the perceptions of over 100 student teachers undertaking primary teaching qualifications in New Zealand. An online questionnaire asked for responses to a range of statements about innovative learning environments (ILEs) and teacher education preparation for this type of school environment. Analysis of the findings indicated a wide range of experiences on professional practices, with more experience of ILEs generally leading to more positive perceptions of these environments. Student teachers perceived that more course-based preparation about ILEs was needed, though others perceived that the best way to learn about ILEs was during professional practice placements.</p>","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"56 1","pages":"81-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7962423/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42181941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mana Ūkaipō: Māori Student Connection, Belonging and Engagement at School.","authors":"Camilla Highfield, Melinda Webber","doi":"10.1007/s40841-021-00226-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40841-021-00226-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes the background, methods and key findings from a research project conducted in one Kāhui Ako (Community of Learning) in a city in New Zealand. All 12 schools had significant numbers of Indigenous Māori students whose iwi (tribal) ancestry connected to the region over centuries. Using a mixed methods approach, the study investigated the specific 'across and within' school interventions that positively impacted Māori student engagement in learning. Evidence was collected by seeking the views and opinions of students, teachers and whānau (family). Interventions and strategies included collaboration between Māori teachers and across-school leaders, positive school culture focused on the health and well-being of students, localised curricula, and substantial use of te reo Māori and tikanga in most schools. School principals reported limited collaboration with each other due to perceived competition between schools for student enrollments, which is counter to the policy drivers for the Kāhui Ako initiative. Results indicated that culturally inclusive leaders and teachers must deliberately focus on motivating students for their positive futures. This is key to improving the academic and social outcomes for Māori students.</p>","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"56 1","pages":"145-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8480114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48658086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceptualising SEL in the Cross-Cultural Spaces of Primary Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand.","authors":"K A Goodman","doi":"10.1007/s40841-021-00213-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40841-021-00213-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social and emotional learning (SEL) to support students' wellbeing is even more critical within schools dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. This article establishes why New Zealand primary schools need strategies to support the emotional wellbeing of students and why a prescriptive approach is not appropriate for the bicultural and multicultural classroom context. It draws on Māori, Indigenous, Pasifika, international psychology and decolonialisation views to propose directions for future research in this vital area of education. Seeing SEL from different world views highlights the opportunity and ethical necessity for cultural, social and emotional learning (CSEL) to create transformative spaces that support holistic wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"56 1","pages":"285-299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42997209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking Spaces: Architects and Educators.","authors":"Noeline Wright, Trent Thompson, Tim Horne","doi":"10.1007/s40841-021-00193-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-021-00193-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article synthesises longitudinal deliberations between two architects and an educator, seeking common ground about learning spaces in schools. As the impetus for new and refurbished school buildings continues in New Zealand, it is timely to unpack instinctual disciplinary practices to better understand space and place in schools. We undertook a process of 'bumping' ideas against one another, establishing intersections around the nature of physical spaces created, inhabited, appropriated and used for educational purposes. The process of documenting our deliberations was dialogic and autoethnographic. Through interrogating ideas about space and place in literature and images, we explored how classrooms function for teaching and learning, and opportunities for both intimate and social learning and teaching. We sought to clarify how architects translate ideas about flexible learning, collaboration and whole class teaching into the design of schools and classrooms. We shared knowledge about pedagogy and architecture, and from these iterative dialogic practices, we offer ideas about educational spaces and places from those positions. As disciplinary professionals, we had internalised so much knowledge and expertise within our own fields,we realised that articulating it to others can be a struggle. We have shared the crafting of this article to partially compensate for misplacing the words to express how and why we do what we do in our own practices. We believe that it matters not only that learning spaces are designed well, but also that architects and educators can talk with rather than past each other.</p>","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"56 Suppl 1","pages":"45-59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883886/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Staying Apart Yet Keeping Together': Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching During COVID-19 Across the Tasman.","authors":"Dawn Joseph, Robyn Trinick","doi":"10.1007/s40841-021-00211-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40841-021-00211-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 has had a profound effect on higher education institutions across the world. The rapid shift to blended teaching has meant changes to ways of teaching and learning. Author One (Australia) and Author Two (New Zealand) are tertiary academics in initial teacher education programmes. In this paper, they draw on narrative enquiry as a way to tell their stories of how they had to rapidly move from of face-to-face teaching to an emergency situation of online (cloud) teaching and learning. Through shared reflection, they offer a snapshot of their lived experience teaching music education, managing students and staff. In the findings, they discuss key challenges and opportunities they encountered in relation to student participation and engagement, teaching and learning, and wellbeing. Staying connected with each other across the Tasman Sea, using email and Zoom were important forms of providing mutual support that contributed positively to their sense of wellbeing as academics during this stressful time. They contend that universities need to consider the more human aspect of changes that have impacted staff and students. They question what the future will hold for initial teacher education programs post 2020. They suggest working collaboratively with schools, professional organisations, and industry when designing new programmes as the landscape of higher education changes due to the ongoing pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"56 1","pages":"209-226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8212272/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47426483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Alison Jones: This Pākehā life: An Unsettled Memoir","authors":"Nesta Devine","doi":"10.1007/s40841-020-00182-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-020-00182-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"55 1","pages":"449 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40841-020-00182-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43671186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a More Meaningful Evaluation of University Lecturers","authors":"Thilo Hagen","doi":"10.1007/s40841-020-00180-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-020-00180-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"55 1","pages":"379 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40841-020-00180-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49078340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Change in Self-reported Undergraduate Attributes: A Repeated Measures Survey of Students in Education","authors":"Gavin T. L. Brown, M. Grays","doi":"10.1007/s40841-020-00178-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-020-00178-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"55 1","pages":"337 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40841-020-00178-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47729922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gatekeeper Engagement and the Importance of Phronesis-Praxis in School-Based Research","authors":"Wendy Goff","doi":"10.1007/s40841-020-00177-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-020-00177-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"55 1","pages":"321 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40841-020-00177-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46359018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Non-native Teacher’s Reflection on Living in New Zealand","authors":"D. Yan","doi":"10.1007/s40841-020-00176-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-020-00176-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44884,"journal":{"name":"NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES","volume":"55 1","pages":"287 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40841-020-00176-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45841244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}