Papers by Elizabeth McKinley
Handbook of Indigenous Education, 2019
The Culture of Science Education, 2007
The World of Science Education, 2009
Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2016
The engagement of indigenous students and their families has often been a challenge for mainstrea... more The engagement of indigenous students and their families has often been a challenge for mainstream schools. Many indigenous students and their parents have reported a sense of disconnection from educational contexts due to a lack of personalized or ongoing relationships with the teachers or the school. There are indications in the literature that well-conducted academic counseling can increase engagement with students and their families. However, despite the evidence, New Zealand research has shown that many students do not receive any form of academic counseling. This study examined the effectiveness of an academic counseling intervention from the perspective of 78 Mā ori students in 12 focus groups and school reported attendance data. The results of the study indicated that Mā ori students appreciated enduring achievement-focused relationships with teachers that were premised on three factors: 1) collective vision-the degree to which all parties were committed to equipping students with the skills to achieve academic excellence; 2) collective efficacy-the judgment that all three parties could organize and execute the actions required to have a positive effect on Mā ori students; and 3) coordinated and timely collective action-the belief that all parties had a role to play in actively supporting Mā ori student achievement.
Nzcer Press, 2010
There is nothing like a good story to capture the imagination and help us engage with other peopl... more There is nothing like a good story to capture the imagination and help us engage with other people's experiences. This book is made up of fifteen such stories, written by young NZers as they look back on their individual journeys from school to tertiary education. They come from rural and urban schools located mostly in economically disadvantaged communities, and many are the first in their family to embark on university studies. The authors reflect the ethnic mix of Aotearoa New Zealand today - with Maori, Pacific, European/Pakeha, and other voices telling of their dreams, experiences and lessons learned along the way. If you are a high school student planning to go to university (or wondering if you should), or a teacher, parent or mentor to a young person in this situation, then this book will give you some helpful pointers. Sometimes funny and at times painfully honest, these stories go beyond the glossy brochures and university guidebooks to provide a real glimpse of what it is like to leave the familiarity of school, family and community and become a university student.
Iwgia Document, 1998
L'A. considere la situation contemporaine des Maori de Nouvelle-Zelande, notamment dans ses r... more L'A. considere la situation contemporaine des Maori de Nouvelle-Zelande, notamment dans ses relations avec la societe englobante, et en centrant son analyse sur les roles et la place de la femme. Elle decrit d'abord brievement la situation economique et sociale et la relation traditionnelle des Maori avec la nature. Elle donne ensuite deux exemples qui montrent l'importance des femmes dans la preservation des ressources naturelles et culturelles maori et illustrent le type de developpement envisage dans le cadre de la globalisation. Le premier exemple concerne la defense et la reconnaissance des savoirs traditionnels, notamment pour la preservation et la gestion de la faune et de la flore. L'A. decrit la plainte 262 deposee au Tribunal Waitangi afin de faire reconnaitre les droits maori sur la propriete intellectuelle et culturelle. Le deuxieme exemple decrit les revendications pour la reconnaissance de la langue maori et son introduction dans le systeme educatif. En conclusion, l'A. suggere de quelle maniere le combat des femmes maori est indissociable et solidaire de celui des femmes occidentales.
Diversity in Higher Education
Abstract Māori and Pacific school leavers, who tend to be clustered in low-decile schools, are le... more Abstract Māori and Pacific school leavers, who tend to be clustered in low-decile schools, are less likely than any other ethnic groups in New Zealand to begin degree-level studies, to succeed in their first year, and continue with their studies. This chapter will draw on the research findings from a prospective, longitudinal, qualitative study of student transition from secondary school to university (Madjar, McKinley, Deynzer, & van der Merwe, 2010). The study was an in-depth, longitudinal one with young people in transition, recruited in their last term of high school and followed to the end of their first semester. A sub-sample was followed until the end of their second year of university study. The chapter will discuss the critical importance of engagement, both academic and social, for student success in university environment. We will also explore the significance of connections with the students’ whānau (extended family) and community, and the peer connections and their impact on students’ experience of transition.
Second International Handbook of Science Education, 2011
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Science & Technology Education Library
Abstract: Science educators worldwide are calling for the development of scientific literacy in t... more Abstract: Science educators worldwide are calling for the development of scientific literacy in today's schools, yet there is little consensus as to what criteria or goals might constitute the attainment of scientific literacy. In this chapter, we explore the diverse meanings international ...
Science Education, 2000
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International Journal of Science Education, 1992
... In this respect it is similar to the notion of multicultural science education in the UK (Tho... more ... In this respect it is similar to the notion of multicultural science education in the UK (Thorp 1991,Ditchfield 1987). ... These two aspects of bi/multicultural education are evident in the research of Ritchie and Butler (1990) and Ritchie and Kane (1990) who report on bicultural ...
International Journal of Science Education, 2005
... act as the wellspring. The article concludes by reviewing the situation in Aotearoa New Zeala... more ... act as the wellspring. The article concludes by reviewing the situation in Aotearoa New Zealand with respect to the indigenous population, Maori, and the recent science education initiatives in te reo Maori (Maori language). ...
Higher Education Research & Development, 2010
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The literature search was largely confined to large empirical studies and meta-analyses carried o... more The literature search was largely confined to large empirical studies and meta-analyses carried out in the last 5 years. The process adopted used electronic and physical searches and consultation with national and international experts. Around 200 references are ...
Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2005
provide an excellent essay on science learning and students' sense of place that offers insight i... more provide an excellent essay on science learning and students' sense of place that offers insight into and opens scholarly conversation in relation to a number of domains. The authors ask, what do we mean when we refer to urban students' sense of place and how does it affect what happens in middle school science classrooms? By sense of place Lim and Calabrese Barton are referring to "a living ecological relationship between a person and a place" that includes "physical, biological, social, cultural, and political factors with history and psychological state of the persons who share the location." The conversation that followed between the authors and the respondents led us on a journey of complexity to a "connected science" that opens a conceptual window to a plethora of transgressive concepts. The exchange that took place indicates how difficult it is to document and describe any person or group's sense of place, let alone trace the effects of place on specific science classroom activities. Undoubtedly, this was a particularly difficult research assignment undertaken by Lim and Calabrese Barton. This paper is an attempt to follow through the exchange of ideas
Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
The use of hybridity today suggests a less coherent, unified and directed process than that found... more The use of hybridity today suggests a less coherent, unified and directed process than that found in the Enlightenment science's cultural imperialism, but regardless of this neither concept exists outside power and inequality. Hence, hybridity raises the question of the terms of the mixture and the conditions of mixing. Cultural hybridity produced by colonisation, under the watchful eye of science at the time, and the subsequent life in a modern world since does not obscure the power that was embedded in the moment of colonisation. Indigenous identities are constructed within and by cultural power. While we all live in a global society whose consequences no one can escape, we remain unequal participants and globalisation remains an uneven process. This article argues that power has become a constitutive element in our own hybrid identities in indigenous people's attempts to participate in science and science education. Using the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand (called Māori) as a site of identity construction, I argue that the move from being the object of science to the subject of science, through science education in schools, brings with it traces of an earlier meaning of 'hybridity' that constantly erupts into the lives of Māori women scientists. Keywords Indigenous women Á Hybrid identity Á Colonialism Á Subjectivity Mai i te kaupapa ki te kaikōrero: ngā tuakiri momorua o ngā wahine Māori i roto i te pū taiao I takea mai te whakaaro mō te 'momoruatanga' i te mātai koiora, mātai tipu hoki. Ka roa, ka whakawhiti atu te whakaaro nei ki te ao mātai ahurea, mā runga i ngā whakaaro mō ngā iwi tokomaha o te ao, i kīa nā ētahi he momo koiora rerekē. Nā tēnā, ka whakaritea te uri o
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