Doctoral study in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Pedagogy

Our academic staff include national and international leaders in many areas of curriculum and pedagogy, including education in the Arts, Languages and Literacies, Science, Technology and Science, Social Sciences and in Health and Physical Education. For doctoral opportunities in curriculum subject areas, see Doctoral Study in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Curriculum Subjects.

Our staff also have deep practical and theoretical knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy and explore a wide range of topics related to teaching and learning in these learning areas. These areas include interventions to improve achievement, innovative curriculum and learning design, dialogic education and the role of teacher expectations and beliefs.

As a doctoral student in Curriculum and Pedagogy, you will become part of a vibrant, high-calibre research community. You will have access to opportunities to publish your work, attend conferences, and build a professional network within the academic community. Your research will not only contribute to the advancement of educational theory and practice but can also offer tangible benefits to educational systems, practitioners, and students worldwide.

Pursue your topic with us and benefit from exceptional standards of support and supervision from nationally and internationally recognised researchers in the following broad research areas:

Achievement

Gavin Brown, Maurice Cheng, Camilla Highfield, Mei Lai, Jude MacArthur, Stuart McNaughton, Jacinta Oldehaver, Barbara Ormond, Hana Turner-Adams, Shengnan Wang, Aaron Wilson

Bilingual education

Piata Allen, Angel Chan, Rosemary Erlam, Peter Keegan, Stephen May, Constanza Tolosa, Lawrence Zhang

Curriculum design

Piata Allen, Maurice Cheng, Megan Clune, Hēmi Dale, Lisa Darragh, Fiona Ell, John Fenaughty, Katie Fitzpatrick, Maia Hetaraka, Deidre Le Fevre, Mei Lai, Kerry Lee, Graham McPhail, Missy Morton, Alan Ovens, Barbara Ormond, Jacinta Oldehaver, Darren Powell, Elizabeth Rata, Claire Sinnema, Alexis Siteine, Tony Trinick

Dialogic education

Maree Davies, Janet Gaffney, Janet May, Stuart McNaughton, Jacinta Oldehaver, Deborah Widdowson, Lawrence Zhang

Inclusive education

Piata Allen, Joanna Ting Wai Chu, Lisa Darragh, John Fenaughty, Janet Gaffney, Missy Morton, Analosa Veukiso-Ulugia

Learning and teaching

Piata Allen, Blake Bennett, Sally Birdsall, Maurice Cheng, Tania Cliffe-Tautari, Megan Clune, Maria Cooper, Lisa Darragh, Maree Davies, Helen Dixon, Fiona Ell, Katie Fitzpatrick, Janet Gaffney, Maia Hetaraka, Paul Heyward, Camilla Highfield, Rebecca Jesson, Barbara Kensington-Miller, Deidre Le Fevre, Mei Lai, Kerry Lee, Jude MacArthur, Lyn McDonald, Missy Morton, Selena Meiklejohn-Whiu, Naashia Mohamed, Jacinta Oldehaver, Barbara Ormond, Alan Ovens, Darren Powell, Matt Rankine, Elizabeth Rata, Claire Sinnema, Alexis Siteine, Jennifer Tatebe, Constanza Tolosa, Hana Turner-Adams, Shengnan Wang, Melinda Webber, Aaron Wilson, Ema Wolfgramm-Foliaki, Lawrence Zhang

Learning design

Megan Clune, Fiona Ell, Janet Gaffney, Mei Lai, Lawrence May, Stuart McNaughton, Selena Meiklejohn-Whiu, Jacinta Oldehaver, Barbara Ormond, Elizabeth Rata

Learning support (specialist education)

Fiona Ell, Tania Cliffe-Tautari, Lisa Darragh, Kerry Lee, Jude MacArthur, Graham McPhail, Missy Morton

Pedagogies

Louisa Allen, Piata Allen, Blake Bennett, Sally Birdsall, Maurice Cheng, Helene Connor, Maria Cooper, Megan Clune, Tania Cliffe-Tautari, Hēmi Dale, Lisa Darragh, Maree Davies, Fiona Ell, David Fa'avae, Esther Fitzpatrick, Katie Fitzpatrick, Janet Gaffney, Kiri Gould, Maia Hetaraka, Paul Heyward, Camilla Highfield, Rebecca Jesson, Kerry Lee, Kirsten Locke, Hayley McGlashan Fainu, John Morgan, Jude MacArthur, Missy Morton, Jacinta Oldehaver, Barbara Ormond, Alan Ovens, Darren Powell, Rod Philpot, Christine Rubie-Davies, Claire Sinnema, Constanza Tolosa

Teacher expectations and beliefs

Gavin Brown, John Fenaughty, Janet Gaffney, Lexie Grudnoff, Paul Heyward, Barbara Kensington-Miller, Deidre Le Fevre, Kerry Lee, Jude MacArthur, Lyn McDonald, Frauke Meyer, Missy Morton, Christine Rubie-Davies, Alexis Siteine, Constanza Tolosa, Hana Turner-Adams, Shengnan Wang

'Approaches to Translation Teaching: An Exploratory Study of Translation Teacher Cognitions, Teaching Practices, and Student Cognition' | Supervised by Professor Lawrence Zhang and Associate Professor Aaron Wilson

'An Ecology for Learning and Teaching: Integrating Education Science into Teacher’s Pedagogies using an adaptation of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Framework' | Supervised by Associate Professor Graham McPhail and Associate Professor Aaron Wilson

'Classroom-based Assessment of Young EFL Learners in the Chinese Context: Teachers' Conceptions and Practices' | Supervised by Professor Lawrence Zhang and Associate Professor Helen Dixon

'Curriculum Design for the Teaching Profession: A Curriculum Design Coherence Model Intervention Study' | Supervised by Professor Elizabeth Rata and Dr Alexis Siteine

'Dancing through the fourth wall: Process drama as an enactment of critical pedagogy' | Supervised by Professor Peter O'Connor

'Double Minority Youth Mental Health: An investigation of challenges and opportunities to support Chinese sexual/gender minority young people in New Zealand' | Supervised by Associate Professor John Fenaughty, Dr Theresa Fleming and Professor Christa Fouché

'Expectations Matter: Relations Between Teacher Expectations, Student Perceptions, Classroom Climate, Student Self-Efficacy, Emotions, and Achievement' | Supervised by Professor Christine Rubie-Davies and Professor Jason Stephens

'Fostering peer interactions in online learning environments: the potential of videoconferencing for interactional abilities of foreign language learners in New Zealand secondary schools' | Supervised by Professor Martin East and Dr Constanza Tolosa

'Identity, Knowledge, and Curriculum: A Sociological Study of Ethnicity in New Zealand Education' | Supervised by Professor Elizabeth Rata, Professor Carol Mutch and Associate Professor Graham McPhail

'Intervening for Educational Improvement; A Problem Based Methodology Approach to Understanding and Implementing Curriculum' | Supervised by Associate Professor Claire Sinnema and Emeritus Professor Viviane Robinson

'Ka whati te tai, ka pao te Torea: Investigating culturally responsive policy, particularly, te reo Maori in English-medium schools, using an ecological framework' | Supervised by Associate Professor Peter Keegan and Professor Tony Trinick

'Learning to Teach with Technology: Traversing the Initial Teacher Education Landscape' | Supervised by Associate Professor Alan Ovens and Associate Professor Dawn Garbett

'LGBTQ Youth, Physical Education, and Sexuality Education: Affect, Curriculum, and (New) Materialism' | Supervised by Professor Katie Fitzpatrick and Associate Professor Richard Pringle

'Recasting the subject: Curriculum, equity, and the educated ideal in secondary English classrooms' | Supervised by Professor Carol Mutch and Associate Professor Barbara Grant

'Student-created digital learning objects (SC-DLOs): Transformative, design-for-learning practices for 21st century e-learning ecologies' | Supervised by Professor Stuart McNaughton and Professor Rebecca Jesson

'Talanoa as a framework to develop more effective dialogic pedagogy with Pasifika students' | Supervised by Professor Rebecca Jesson and Professor Stuart McNaughton

'Te Kauae Tuku Iho; Inheriting the Sacred Jawbone: Re-imagining Māori cultural competence in education by engaging the wisdom of indigenous knowledge keepers' | Supervised by Professor Katie Fitzpatrick and Professor Cindy Kiro

'The Impact of Context-Driven Assessment and Feedback Conceptions on University Students' Approaches to Learning ― A Cross-Cultural Perspective' | Supervised by Professor Gavin Brown and Associate Professor Richard Hamilton

'Transition with Dignity: From Special School to Community Life Understood in Partnership with Individuals with Significant Disabilities' | Supervised by Associate Professor Mary Hill and Professor Jan Gaffney

'Working in Wonderland: Teachers’ Reactions to Innovative Learning Environments' | Supervised by Professor Deidre Le Fevre and Emeritus Professor Helen Timperley

There are several scholarships you may be eligible for when you decide to pursue your doctoral studies in Curriculum and Pedagogy.

• University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarships

Do you want to chat further about your studies? Contact us using the details below.

Email: foed-doct@auckland.ac.nz