2007 Funding Recipients

Category A (2-year project)

Sustainability of effective teaching and school practices: Developing a model for sustaining and extending literacy achievement
Dr Mei Kuin, of the University of Auckland's Woolf Fisher Research Centre
The focus is on sustaining gains in reading comprehension made during two TLRI funded research-development projects in low-decile south Auckland schools. Researchers aim to come up with a model for sustaining effective teaching and school practices, once the interventions ends.
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Titiro Whakamuri, Hoki Whakamua: We are the future, the present and the past: caring for self, others and the environment in early years' teaching and learning
Associate Professor Jenny Ritchie and Cheryl Rau from Unitec, Dr Iris Duhn from The University of Auckland and Janita Craw from Auckland University of Technology,in partnership with kuia and kaumätua, a research facilitator and teachers from Dunedin Kindergarten Association, as well as teachers from nine other childcare centres and kindergartens from other Kindergarten Associations nation-wide.
This research will co-investigate ‘pedagogies of place’ that evolve around an ethic of care for self, others and the environment, utilising both kaupapa Māori and western perspectives to focus on global issues of ecological sustainability within a variety of local/national early childhood education contexts.
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Learning Wisdom
Professor Margaret Carr from the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research at the University of Waikato, in partnership with university researchers and 13 early childhood teacher-researchers.
The project is called Learning Wisdom, which it defines as knowing why, when and how to engage with learning opportunities.  Early childhood teachers will research their own practice as they revisit learning stories with children.
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Learning environments and student engagement with learning in tertiary settings
Associate Professor Nick Zepke and Dr Linda Leach from the College of Education, Massey University. They will work with partnerships from one wananga, two universities, four polytechnics, one private training establishment and a large community provider.
They will investigate student engagement, looking at the importance and nature of environmental influences. The findings will provide insight into ways to create better learning environments.
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