New Zealand has been a veritable "laboratory" for a range of social experiments in the last twenty years, including an arranged marriage with neo-liberal economic policies during the late 80s and 90s. These experiments extended to education, where students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers have experienced wide-ranging "reforms" in administration, curriculum and qualifications. The most contentious of these have been a series of untrialled and radical qualifications reforms. This book offers a critical examination of these reforms from the perspective of a group of educators who...
New Zealand has been a veritable "laboratory" for a range of social experiments in the last twenty years, including an arranged marriage with neo-libe...
Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in educational contexts and the implications for writing pedagogy. It conceptualises writers identities, and draws upon empirical studies to explore their construction, enactment and performance. Focusing largely on teachers identities and practices as writers and the writer identities of primary and secondary students, it also encompasses the perspectives of professional writers and highlights promising new directions for research. With...
Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a wr...
Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in educational contexts and the implications for writing pedagogy. It conceptualises writers identities, and draws upon empirical studies to explore their construction, enactment and performance. Focusing largely on teachers identities and practices as writers and the writer identities of primary and secondary students, it also encompasses the perspectives of professional writers and highlights promising new directions for research. With...
Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a wr...