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Are school visions sustainable? Assessing the relevance of Senge’s notion of shared visions
(New Zealand Educational Administration & Leadership Society, 2012)Contemporary schools, in the pursuit of developing community, will seek to build statements of vision based on values that focus action and become the impetus for the daily renewal of commitment by those bound to these ... -
Back to the Future? Aims and Ends for Future-Oriented Science Education Policy – The New Zealand Context
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2017)Science and science education are a focus of high-level government policy settings in many countries. Greater public interest in and knowledge of science is seen as being an important prerequisite for economic growth and ... -
Bangladesh: an umpired democracy
(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2012)This paper reveals that there has been a continuous political confrontation between two archrival political forces in Bangladesh since independence in 1971. In the course of the confrontation, the country has seemingly ... -
Be prepared or she'll be right? Terrorism, hotels and mega events in New Zealand
(The Council for australasian University tourism and Hospitality education (CaUtHe), 2013)Between 1972 and 2003 there were 168 attempts by terrorists to attack respondents or spectators at major sporting events around the world. A literature review of over 100 research papers outlines the reasons terrorist ... -
Behavioural effects of tourism on oceanic common dolphins, delphinus sp., in New Zealand: the effects of Markov analysis variations and current tour operator compliance with regulations
(PLOS, 2015)Common dolphins, Delphinus sp., are one of the marine mammal species tourism operations in New Zealand focus on. While effects of cetacean-watching activities have previously been examined in coastal regions in New Zealand, ... -
Beyond Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning: An Attempt with SVM
(The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020)A big challenge in continual learning is avoiding catastrophically forgetting previously learned tasks. The possibility of improving existing knowledge whilst integrating new information has been much less explored. In ... -
Bilingual Patient Navigator or Healthcare Interpreter: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)A lot of studies have been conducted examining the roles of Patient Navigators in various healthcare settings. Little research is available to date on the roles of bilingual Patient Navigators. This article combines a ... -
Blinded by science? Reasons for thinking twice
(Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME), 2014)Critical thinking is a key skill promised by many undergraduate programmes, yet few offer specific courses in thinking, nor do university lecturers necessarily think critically or know how to teach critical thinking. This ... -
Book Review: Dolezal, C., Trupp, A., & Bui, H. T. (Eds.). (2020). Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia.
(Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS), 2020)No abstract. -
Book Review: Promoting Spontaneous Use of Learning and Reasoning Strategies: Theory, Research and Practice for Effective Transfer
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)No abstract. -
Bringing Māori Concepts into School Science: NCEA
This commentary article discusses the inclusion of Māori knowledge in senior school science in the context of some new senior school science qualifications that are currently being trialled. These proposals raise challenging ... -
Bringing others into us: school leadership meeting the politics of identity
(Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007)How does a school maintain a sustainable identity within the rapidly changing society in which it is positioned?As a result of global migrations of people, the demographics of societies are changing and creating increasingly ... -
Building a future-oriented science education system in New Zealand - how are we doing?
(New Zealand Council for Educational Reserach (NZCER), 2013)This paper makes the case for deep and radical change to New Zealand's approach to science education. It discusses the implications of recent science education research and policy work, and argues New Zealand still has a ... -
Can busy classroom teachers really do action research: an action research study in an EAL [English as Additional Language] tertiary setting
(Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, 2006)Recent literature in general and language teacher education has promoted the benefits of empowering teachers to be in control of their professional development and curriculum development through reflection on practice and ... -
Can Culturally Responsive Policies Improve Māori Achievement?
(NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2019)This article analyses research literature and policy texts to investigate the extent to which culturally responsive education policies can improve Māori achievement in schools. It presents a snapshot of current levels of ... -
Capacity building for school improvement: a case study of a New Zealand primary school
(Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA), 2008)Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature with an absence of debate on the implications of political, social and economic trends. The paper explores capacity building ... -
Capacity building for school improvement: a case study of a New Zealand school
(Springer, 2009)Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature with an absence of debate on the implications of political, social and economic trends. This article explores capacity ... -
Capacity building for school improvement: knowledge production and utilization
(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2010)Educational reform, focused on promoting student learning, depends on schools’ capacity to improve. Building capacity for school improvement is critical. This paper explores capacity building in one low decile, multicultural ... -
Challenges and support factors of married Emirati students in teacher education
(Quest Journals Inc, 2014)The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is on the path to becoming a knowledge economy and the role women play as pioneers and innovators, not only in their own society but, also, in the global community is strongly advocated [1]. ...