Becoming an Innovative Learning Environment

Noeline Wright is a teacher educator whose work centres on the secondary school sector. She helps prepare those entering secondary teaching via graduate initial teacher education programmes. Her research interests span digital technologies in secondary school settings, secondary schools as modern learning environments, and possibilities for integrated learning for students. She has worked closely with a local secondary school to investigate how teachers from different subject areas incorporate mobile digital technologies into their lessons, and what changes occur in their thinking and practices as a result. She has published on pedagogy and digital technologies, social media in initial teacher education, and on new schools as modern learning environments. She has been funded by the national Teaching and Learning Research Initiative programme to investigate the inception of another new secondary school.

1 Introduction.- 2 Framing the space: Mapping the territory of modern learning environments.- 3 Framing the research design.- 4 Framing the school: Hobsonville Point Secondary School.- 5 Framing the curriculum: 'Paradigm of one'.- 6 Framing pastoral care: 'Paradigm for one'.- 7 Framing the perspective: 'Paradigm of the many'.- 8 The first four years: Conclusion.