The focus is the letters and diaries penned by Marianne Coldham Williams (1793-1879) and Jane Nelson Williams (1801-1896) who were resident at the Paihia mission station in the 1823-1835 period. Initially appointed to ...

The article examines the development of performance management and appraisal in New Zealand Schools. This is an electronic version of an article published in School Leadership and Management 23 (1) p 91-. School Leadership ...

This article argues that debates about indigenous leadership and indigenous women's leadership has been ignored and most educational leadership writing and research concentrates on an ethnocentric model.

For the past two decades schools and teachers in New Zealand and elsewhere have been the subject of and subjected to intense public scrutiny of their performance and professional activities. In effect, policy solutions ...

Running records of children‟s oral reading are commonly used to assess children‟s reading and to make decisions about the types of reading instruction that children require. This paper critiques recent guidelines on the ...

The development of early literacy knowledge is generally seen as an important aspect of early childhood education. The way early literacy learning is promoted, however, varies greatly in different national curriculum ...

This article reports findings from a larger study into the role of middle leaders of change in New Zealand Higher Education. The study discusses the perceptions of being in the ‘middle’ and how change leaders reconcile ...

An earlier article in EJA (Piggot-Irvine 2008) reported on the background, methodology and overall results for an evaluation study of a special education teacher professional development project that involved action research ...

'Adult learning makes a difference - to the economy of course, to health, well-being, confidence and to our ability to help our children. Alan Tuckett - 4 December 2006 Alan has steadfastly believed that the inherent ...