Dr Nadine D Ballam
Director of Tauranga (Education) / Senior Lecturer
Keywords
Education; Gifted and Talented Education; Human Development; Human Development and Education; Inclusive Education; Inclusive Learning; Special Education
Qualifications: PhD
Papers Taught
About Nadine
I am the Director of Tauranga (Education programmes) and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education on the Tauranga campus of the University of Waikato. Prior to completing my Bachelor of Teaching (Hons), I spent several years working in administration and the health industry both in New Zealand and overseas. My PhD research, which is titled 'Defying the Odds': Gifted and Talented Young People from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds, focused on the development of talent in young people from 'less privileged' backgrounds.
Research Supervised
PhD supervision:
Tracyanne May (2nd supervisor)
Samantha Heaney (2nd supervisor)
- Educators' knowledge of concussion in New Zealand
Julie Hest (2nd supervisor)
- The pedagogical architecture of modern learning environments: Case study research in four New Zealand secondary schools
Kwame Otu-Danquah (2nd supervisor)
- Researching together: Using a collaborative approach and the voice-centred relational methodology to examine the experiences of students with visual impairment in higher education
Lesley Lyons (2nd supervisor)
- Talking the walk or walking the talk? An examination of the discursive positioning of disabled children in long-day early childhood education and care centres in Aotearoa New Zealand
Sara Chynoweth (3rd supervisor)
- Student experiences in the modern learning environment in New Zealand secondary schools
Mellisa Chin Lee (2nd supervisor)
- A critical realist discourse analysis of inclusive education policy and practice in a rural Malaysian Primary School
Research Interests
Giftedness and talent across the lifespan
Risk and resilience
Lifespan development
Identity and wellbeing
Recent Publications
Ballam, N. (2021). An interview with Professor Tracey Riley. Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 30(1), 65-68. doi:10.21505/ajge.2021.0005
Amundsen, D., Ballam, N., & McChesney, K. (2021). Students' transitions into initial teacher education: Understanding barriers and enablers through an ecological lens. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 46(3), 91-111. Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol46/iss3/6/ Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14296
McChesney, K. (2021). Barriers and enablers to students’ transitions into initial teacher education programmes. In New Zealand Association for Research in Education Annual Conference 2021. Virtual/online conference.
Ballam, N. (2019). Fostering resilience in ‘at-risk’ gifted and talented young people. In Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 1-18). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-3021-6_14-1
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