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
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.
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. (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., & 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
Find more research publications by Nadine Ballam
Keywords
Education; Gifted and Talented Education; Human Development; Human Development and Education; Inclusive Education; Inclusive Learning; Special Education