Financial boost for UC teaching initiatives
Published by Communications and Development
25 November 2009
Two research projects involving Canterbury University College of Education academics have received funding in the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative’s (TLRI) 2009 funding round.
Associate Professor Alison Gilmore (Educational Studies and Human Development) is involved in a project titled “Learning to become ‘assessment capable’ teachers” which has received funding of $450,000 over three years.
The project aims to enhance understanding about how pre-service teachers learn to use assessment in the service of students’ learning. It will identify pre-service teachers’ understanding of using assessment for learning as they begin and when they exit their pre-service programme.
Professor Gilmore is leading the project with Dr Mary Hill of Auckland University and Associate Professor Bronwen Cowie of Waikato University.
Associate Professor Judith Duncan (Maori, Social and Cultural Studies) is working on a project called “Active adult participation in ECE: Enhancing child learning and community wellness” which received funding of $199,878 over two years from TLRI. She is leading the project with Sarah Te One from Victoria University of Wellington
The project will investigate reconceptualising early childhood centres as places for adult participation and active teacher-whanau partnership for positive holistic outcomes for children and their whanau within the community. The research team will consist of practitioners from three of the five ECE centres, staff from the parent support centre, teaching, management and senior staff, and the two university researchers.
The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI), which is co-ordinated by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, was set up by the government in 2003 and aims to build knowledge about teaching and learning that will lead to significantly improved outcomes for learners. The fund is open to the early childhood, school and post-school sectors and nine projects received funding in the latest round.
For further information please contact:
Stacey Doornenbal
Communications Officer
University of Canterbury
Ph (03) 364 2984
stacey.doornenbal@canterbury.ac.nz