title: Designing an internet search interface for children

authors: Vanderschantz, Nicholas

subjects: computer science

abstract: Interaction design and interface design research for children is of critical importance to ensure an educated future generation ready for the technology-focussed world. Significantly, the empirical studies that guide designers, developers, and technologists to support the production of suitable tools for children are under-represented in the scholarly literature. Using evidence from the literature combined with our own recent investigations, we provide a list of requirements for interfaces for children’s educational information seeking. An interaction model and interface design are developed and tested with an expert heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough.

text: Designing an internet search interface for children Interaction design and interface design research for children is of critical importance to ensure an educated future generation ready for the technology-focussed world. Significantly, the empirical studies that guide designers, developers, and technologists to support the production of suitable tools for children are under-represented in the scholarly literature. Using evidence from the literature combined with our own recent investigations, we provide a list of requirements for interfaces for children’s educational information seeking. An interaction model and interface design are developed and tested with an expert heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough.

year: 2018

title: Experiencing a mathematical problem-solving teaching approach: Opportunities to identify ambitious teaching practices

authors: Bailey, Judy

subjects: practice-based pre-service teacher education

abstract: Learning to teach is a complex matter, and many different models of pre-service teacher education have been used to support novice teachers in preparation for the classroom. More recently there have been calls for embedding practice at the centre of teachers’ professional preparation. Preparing novice teachers for ambitious teaching is demanding. A focus on core high-leverage practices such as teaching through problem-solving are suggested. In this study novice teachers engaged in practice-based teacher education to explore the learning and teaching of mathematics using a problem-solving approach. Findings suggest experiencing this approach is an important first step towards novice teachers learning about practices congruent with current reform expectations such as justifying mathematical reasoning, emphasising conceptual understanding, and catering for all learners. Novice teachers also began to envisage how ambitious mathematics pedagogies could be enacted in their future practice.

text: Experiencing a mathematical problem-solving teaching approach: Opportunities to identify ambitious teaching practices Learning to teach is a complex matter, and many different models of pre-service teacher education have been used to support novice teachers in preparation for the classroom. More recently there have been calls for embedding practice at the centre of teachers’ professional preparation. Preparing novice teachers for ambitious teaching is demanding. A focus on core high-leverage practices such as teaching through problem-solving are suggested. In this study novice teachers engaged in practice-based teacher education to explore the learning and teaching of mathematics using a problem-solving approach. Findings suggest experiencing this approach is an important first step towards novice teachers learning about practices congruent with current reform expectations such as justifying mathematical reasoning, emphasising conceptual understanding, and catering for all learners. Novice teachers also began to envisage how ambitious mathematics pedagogies could be enacted in their future practice.

year: 2015

title: Everyday experiences of racism: Suppressing Māori cultural expressions in mental health

authors: Southey, Kim Marie

abstract: Tēnā kautau i runga i ngā tini āhuatanga o te wā.

This publication has been produced as part of the He Kokonga Ngākau Fellowships, an initiative of Te Atawhai o Te Ao that seeks to support and contribute to our research projects, and grow Māori research capability that promotes Kaupapa Māori research. These fellowships have been established to support Māori postgraduate students, practitioners, community researchers, and writers in their writing on kaupapa that have relevance to our organisation and wider community.

Dr Kim Southey (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia) draws on her doctoral research on re-presenting Māori and Indigenous understandings of being, and deconstructing the notion of mental illness. This
publication focuses on how Māori and Indigenous expressions within the mental (and wider) health system are suppressed and restricted by a dominant (western) worldview. Dr Southey posits that the western insistence on representing things in the world through rational, logical explanations impacts on Māori cultural understandings, limiting how we can express ourselves. This is viewed by Dr Southey as a form of institutional racism.

text: Everyday experiences of racism: Suppressing Māori cultural expressions in mental health Tēnā kautau i runga i ngā tini āhuatanga o te wā.

This publication has been produced as part of the He Kokonga Ngākau Fellowships, an initiative of Te Atawhai o Te Ao that seeks to support and contribute to our research projects, and grow Māori research capability that promotes Kaupapa Māori research. These fellowships have been established to support Māori postgraduate students, practitioners, community researchers, and writers in their writing on kaupapa that have relevance to our organisation and wider community.

Dr Kim Southey (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia) draws on her doctoral research on re-presenting Māori and Indigenous understandings of being, and deconstructing the notion of mental illness. This
publication focuses on how Māori and Indigenous expressions within the mental (and wider) health system are suppressed and restricted by a dominant (western) worldview. Dr Southey posits that the western insistence on representing things in the world through rational, logical explanations impacts on Māori cultural understandings, limiting how we can express ourselves. This is viewed by Dr Southey as a form of institutional racism.

year: 2022