Tuesday, September 20, 2011

From nurse to a top academic - The Dominion Post


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The Dominion Post
"My PhD was on why Pacific and Maori students didn't do as well in our undergraduate programme as other students," she says.
"My findings were that they come into programmes often as 'wounded learners', so you address that life script that often [they think] they're dumb and they don't know things. You have to put them into an environment where they can get confident enough to make mistakes around their own learning, because that's how any of us learn."