Dr Michele Morrison
Senior Lecturer, Master of Educational Management (MEdM) Programme Leader
Qualifications: PhD, MEdL, BA(Hons), Dip Tchg
About Michele
Dr Michele Morrison attunes practising and aspiring leaders to identity and practice that transforms educational settings and secures high performance, equity outcomes for all.
An experienced teacher and senior school leader, Michele’s research and teaching focuses on the professional formation of educational leaders through dialogic praxis. Michele prioritises educative processes that privilege lived experience and a concern for the humanity of leadership.
Her doctoral thesis highlights the embedded and embodied nature of leading in context. It provides insight into the messiness of change, factors that enable and constrain school leaders, and the human impact of change endeavours. Accordingly, Michele favours longitudinal narrative research that honours participant voices.
Consistent with her commitment to relationship, relational sensitivities and reciprocity, Michele has developed and teaches postgraduate coaching and mentoring qualifications. She has completed international mentor training with renowned world expert, David Clutterbuck.
Papers Taught
Research Interests
Highlighted publications:
- Morrison, M. (2019). Context counts: Leading educational reform in New Zealand secondary schools. PhD thesis. University of Waikato.
Recent Publications
Morrison, M. (2017). Editorial. Journal of Educational Leadership Policy and Practice, 32, 1-2.
Morrison, M., & Kedian, J. (2017). In the mi[d]st of policy enactment: Leading innovative learning environments (ILEs) in New Zealand schools. Journal of Educational Leadership Policy and Practice, 32(1), 1-6.
Notman, R., Morrison, M., & McNae, R. (2017). Introduction: Leading for social justice and high needs in education. In R. McNae, M. Morrison, & R. Notman (Eds.), Educational leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand: Issues of context and social justice (pp. 1-13). NZCER Press.
Morrison, M. (2017). “I wasn’t really a decile 10 person”: Deliberate enactment of social justice leadership in a high-needs context. In R. McNae, M. Morrison, & R. Notman (Eds.), Educational Leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand (pp. 73-87). NZCER Press.
Keywords
Education; Education Research; Leadership; Learning Centered Leadership; Schools (Primary/Secondary); Te Kotahitanga
Coaching and Mentoring, Social Justice, Culturally Responsive Leadership, Context, Narrative, Qualitative Methodologies, Bourdieu
Contact Details
Email: michele.morrison@waikato.ac.nzRoom: TL.3.02
Phone: 8384466 xtn7875