The milestone of twenty years of the Waikato Journal of Education (WJE) is exciting and satisfying for those who have been closely involved in its origins and growth. This special issue is a collection of 23 papers from across the 20 years to celebrate the anniversary.
The 23 papers in this celebratory issue are organised into five themes somewhat arbitrarily arrived at. The main selection criteria were that each paper represents a particular topic that was of educational and political interest at the time of publication; and that each would represent distinctiveness in terms of research approach and methods and style of presentation. There is a range of topics in each theme. Not surprisingly, there is considerable overlap between the themes.
Table of Contents
Foreword
| Foreword | |
| Heleen Visser |
Editorial
| Special 20th Anniversary Collection 2015 | |
| Clive McGee |
Curriculum, teaching and learning
| Exploring children’s perspectives: Multiple ways of seeing and knowing the child | |
| Sally Peters, Janette Kelly |
| Dancing within postmodernism | |
| Pirkko Markula |
| Health invaders in New Zealand primary schools | |
| Lisette Burrows, Kirsten Petrie, Marg Cosgriff |
| Forging the jewels of the curriculum: Educational practice inspired by a thermodynamic model of threshold concepts | |
| Jonathan Scott |
| Learning perspectives: Implications for pedagogy in science education | |
| Bronwen Cowie |
| Considering pedagogical content knowledge in the context of research on teaching: An example from technology | |
| Alister Jones, Judy Moreland |
| Creative teaching or teaching creatively? Using creative arts strategies in preservice teacher education | |
| Robyn Ewing, Robyn Gibson |
| Experiential learning: A narrative of a community dance field trip | |
| Ralph Buck, Karen Barbour |
Māori and Pasifika education
| Bicultural challenges for educational professionals in Aotearoa | |
| Ted Glynn |
| 1999 Professorial address: Nau te rourou, naku te rourou ... Māori education: Setting an agenda | |
| Russell Bishop |
| The ‘Pasifika Umbrella’ and quality teaching: Understanding and responding to the diverse realities within | |
| Tanya Wendt Samu |
Politics and teacher education
| Reviews of teacher education in New Zealand 1950–1998: Continuity, contexts and change | |
| Noeline Alcorn |
| Policy research and ‘damaged teachers’: Towards an epistemologically respectful paradigm | |
| John Smyth |
| Poor performers or just plain poor?: Assumptions in the neo-liberal account of school failure | |
| Martin Thrupp |
| Stories to live by on the professional knowledge landscape | |
| D. Jean Clandinin |
Information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning
| Beyond lecture capture: Student-generated podcasts in teacher education | |
| Dianne Forbes |
| The Science-for-Life Partnerships: Does size really matter, and can ICT help? | |
| Garry Falloon |
| Evaluating an online learning community: Intellectual, social and emotional development and transformations | |
| Elaine Khoo, Michael Forret |
| Confirmations and contradictions: Investigating the part that digital technologies play in students’ everyday and school lives | |
| Margaret Walshaw |
Research Methods
| Doing qualitative educational research in the mid-1990s: Issues, contexts and practicalities | |
| Sue Middleton |
| Teacher–researcher relationships and collaborations in research | |
| Bronwen Cowie, Kathrin Otrel-Cass, Judy Moreland, Alister Jones, Beverley Cooper, Merilyn Taylor |
| Tension and challenge in collaborative school–university research | |
| Deborah Fraser |
| The Te Kotahitanga observation tool: Development, use, reliability and validity | |
| Mere Berryman, Russell Bishop |
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© Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education, 2015