There is a great depth and range of research expertise in the School of Education at AUT. Below you will find a short synopsis of the research interests and expertise that exists within our school.
Professor
Research expertise: Philosophy of education: policy studies; Pasifika studies in education; Foucault; Derrida; Public choice theory.
Associate Professor
Research expertise: Philosophy, Technology, Education, Politics.
Associate Professor
Research expertise: Autoethnography, Critical discourse analysis (CDA), Kaupapa Māori research, Māori education, Narrative research, Philosophy of education, Science education.
Associate Professor
Research expertise: Higher Education; Educational Leadership; Academic Identity; Postgraduate Education and Supervision; Researcher Development; Interdisciplinary Research.
Director Research; Associate Professor
Philosophy and theory of education; policy studies and analysis (including curriculum policy and practice); teacher’s work; flexible and innovative learning environments; knowledge economy; ethics; organisation and educational leadership; research theory.
Deputy Head of School; Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Mindfulness for teachers, stress reduction. Career, career counselling, career assessment, professional standards, career theory.
Senior Lecturer; Associate Head of School (South Campus)
Research expertise: Mentoring, low SES schooling, initial teacher education, sociology of education, policy studies, the visual arts in education.
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: education through the arts, first-person research, Steiner Waldorf education, spirituality in education.
Lecturer
Primary science, dramatic inquiry (or drama-based learning), Mantle of the Expert.
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Changing nature of public education, its policy and practice; systems of schooling; school governance; educational decision-making; knowledge mobilisation; and the utilisation of educational research. Theoretical frameworks include public sphere theory, critical theory, policy sociology and pragmatism. Methodologies include case study, global ethnography, policy analysis, survey and comparative methods
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Phenomenological research of lived experiences, practice-based research, practitioner inquiry, mathematics education, and immigrant experiences.
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Sociology of education; policy studies; political economy; bicultural education policy, Maori language learning in mainstream school settings.
Senior Lecturer
Metacognition in reading, Narrative understandings of good readers, Verbal protocol analysis
Senior Lecturer
Indigenous models and practices within the career development and education field; Indigenous career practitioners; Organisational career management and the convergence with career counselling models and theories.
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Adult education, vocational education and training, teachers’ work, practitioner based research, critical theory, ethnographies.
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Post-heroic leadership (distributed, shared, collective), Leadership-as-Practice, Critical Leadership Studies, school leadership, higher education leadership, organisational and team development, teacher development, mixed methods research design, case study research, New Zealand and ASEAN contexts.
Lecturer
Research expertise: Gender, sexualities and schooling; Femininities; New materialisms; Feminist post-structuralism; Posthumanist research practices.
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Phenomenological pedagogy, the arts in education, poetic inquiry, alternative and non-formal education, tutor pedagogy, youth studies, social pedagogy, education and development studies, and Pacific education.
Lecturer
Research expertise: Educational Leadership; student voice and agency; appraisal; leadership development; school 'image'; coaching and mentoring.
Senior Lecturer
Research expertise: Early childhood: Bicultural Curriculum, Equity Culture and Diversity, Ethics, Gender, Appreciative Inquiry and Action Research.
Senior Lecturer
Pacific Peoples’ Education, Early Childhood Education, Pasifika Pedagogy, Studies of Pacific Peoples’ Societies, Higher Education, Pasifika Research Methodologies
Lecturer
Research expertise: Education, Technology, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Design Thinking, Educational Environments.
Lecturer
Research expertise: Parental involvement, Father participation, Super diversity in education, Immigrants and refugee studies, Initial Teacher Education, Practice-based and mixed methods research design.
Lecturer
Māori student success, teacher expectations, student-teacher relationships, and the disparities in educational achievement between Māori and non-Māori students.
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