Dr Noeline Wright
Senior Research Officer
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
| Secondary Teachers College Diploma | Auckland Teachers College |
| Bachelor of Arts | University of Auckland |
| Master of Arts | University of Auckland |
| Diploma in Teaching | NZ Department of Education |
| Diploma in Educational Leadership | University of Waikato |
| Doctor of Education | University of Waikato |
Teaching
Secondary Teacher Graduate Education Programme: ICT module (PICT). This primarily focuses on pedagogical understandings of how to think about and use technological tools in New Zealand secondary school classrooms. To that end, programme content changes regularly to be current with changes in social media, cloud and mobile tools and their affordances for education.
Research
Current personal research centres on aspects of e-learning, particularly educational uses for mobile phones and microblogging (Twitter). I also convened an mLearning Day on July 7 2010, for FOE staff, students and New Zealand teachers. A key feature of my research centres on using action research to examine the pedagogical uses of digital technologies in both preservice and inservice educational contexts.
Embedding literacy in tertiary/vocational contexts also features as a research interest again using action enquiry as a method for data collection, generation, analysis and reflection leading to enhanced practices. Internationally, I was part of a longitudinal NZAID project to support staff and programme development for the School of Education in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
In 2002, I completed an educational leadership doctorate centred on the professional lives of English Heads of Department, with the findings represented as a short story.
Research interests
e-learning and mLearning; leadership in secondary schools, especially heads of department and organisational change processes; literacy in secondary schools; gender and education; beginning teacher development; pedagogy.
Publications
Wright, N. (2007). School Language Policies. In, S. May and N. H. Hornberger (eds), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Edition, Volume 1: Language Policy and Political Issues in Education. 243-254.
Wright, N. (2007). Building literacy communities of practice across subject disciplines in secondary schools. Language and Education. 21(5) 420-433 http://www.www.multilingual-matters.com
May, S. & Wright, N. (2007). Secondary literacy across the curriculum: Challenges and possibilities. Language and Education. 21(5) 370-376 http://www.www.multilingual-matters.com
Wright, N. (2009). Shifting teachers' practices: how literacy can be a focus for altering pedagogical practices.The International Journal of Learning. 16(4) 503-514.
Wright, N. (2010) e-learning and implications for New Zealand schools: a literature review. Welington, Ministry of Education at: http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/ict/77614
Wright, N. (2010). Twittering in teacher education: reflecting on practicum experiences. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning. 25(3) 259-265.
2000-2004 publications
Wright, N. (2000). Baring some essentials: Boys' achievement, ERO and leadership. Waikato Journal of Education 6, 107-120
Wright, N. (2003). Writing stories: Telling tales of educational leadership practice. New Zealand Journal of Educational Leadership.18, 23-34
Wright, N. (2003). A short story from the inside. In, English teachers at work: Narratives, counter narratives and arguments. Brenton Doeke, David Homer & Helen Nixon (Eds). South Australia: Wakefield Press
Wright, N. (2003). Sharp learning tools versus blunt axes- our pedagogical heart. English in Aotearoa. December, 51, 4-11.
Wright, N. (2004).Taking flight: English teaching and albatrosses. English in Aotearoa. November, 54, 3-10.