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Maria Cooper; Jacinta Oldehaver; Helen Hedges – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
Strong teacher-family partnerships are vital for children's educational success. Educational policies influence how teachers perceive and engage in these significant relationships. Critical policy analysis focuses on the language, and underlying meanings and beliefs that reify certain understandings and positions in policy. We trace changes in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Family School Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Fickel, Letitia; Abbiss, Jane; Brown, Liz; Astall, Chris – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
Culturally responsive teaching is an essential component of reframing educator preparation for equity and has particular resonance when working in partnership with indigenous communities. As teacher educators in Aotearoa New Zealand, we continually seek to enhance our practices to ensure that Maori cultural values, pedagogies, and epistemologies…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Methods, Epistemology
Heugh, Kathleen; Mohamed, Naashia – UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
The Asia-Pacific region hosts the largest number of refugees and displaced people in the world, and is the place of origin for nearly half of all international migrants. However, data related to the unique language-in-education needs of refugee and migrant children in and from this area is sparse. The report aims to create a stronger knowledge…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Language Planning, Language of Instruction
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Conway, Clare; Richards, Heather; Harvey, Sharon; Roskvist, Annelies – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This paper examines a language teacher education professional development programme in New Zealand that draws on the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum. At the heart of the Learning Languages area in the curriculum is communicative competence, with the understanding that communication involves "language knowledge" and "cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Communicative Competence (Languages), Professional Development