Dr Nadine D Ballam
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: PhD
About Nadine
I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and am located on the Tauranga campus. Prior to completing my Bachelor of Teaching (Hons) at the University of Waikato, 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.
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
PhD supervision:
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
Risk and resilience
Human development
Identity and wellbeing
Recent Publications
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
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
Ballam, N., & Sturgess, A. (2019). Meeting the needs of gifted learners who just don’t ‘fit’: Parent perspectives. Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 6-16. doi:10.21505/ajge.2019.0012
Amundsen, D., Ballam, N., & Cosgriff, M. (2019). The ABCs of collaboration in academia. Waikato Journal of Education, 24(2), 39-53. doi:10.15663/wje.v24i2.667 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13280
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Keywords
Education; Gifted and Talented Education; Human Development; Human Development and Education; Inclusive Education; Inclusive Learning; Special Education