Research outputs 2022
Bishop, P., & Nelson, E. (2022, April 21-26). Intersections between young adolescent well-being and schooling. In K. M. Main & S. L. Whatman (Chairs). Building Shared Knowledge: Research on the Health and Well-Being of Middle-Grades Youth [Symposium]. 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. https://doi.org/10.3102/1886440
Bishop, P., & Nelson, E. (2022, November). Intersections between young adolescent well-being and schooling. [Paper presentation]. Annual Conference for Middle Level Education, Orlando, FL.
Nelson, E., & Cowie, B. (2022, November 27-December 1). The potential of material agency for rethinking student voice: Hybrid agents, nature connectedness and curriculum design [Paper presentation]. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2022 Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
Research outputs 2021
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2021). Addressing the socio-spatial challenges of innovative learning environments for practicum: Harmonics for transitional times. In W. Imms & T. Kvan (Eds.), Teacher transition into innovative learning environments: A global perspective (pp. 291-303). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7497-9_23
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2021). ‘Jump in off the deep end’: Learning to teach in innovative learning environments on practicum. In N. Wright & E. Khoo (Eds.), Pedagogy and partnerships in innovative learning environments: Case studies from New Zealand contexts (pp. 225-242). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5711-5_12
Nelson, E., & Rehu, M. (2021). Culturally located learning: The potential of ILEs for Māori student success. In N. Wright & E. Khoo (Eds.), Pedagogy and partnerships in innovative learning environments: Case studies from New Zealand contexts (pp. 291-309). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5711-5_15
Nelson, E. (2021). Student voice in pedagogical decision-making: Nexus of transformation and problematic alliance. The Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-020-00419-3
Nelson, E., Davies, L., Johnson, L., Jones, K., & O’Connor, N. (2021). Adapting to the ILE Practicum: New grammar for changing times in initial teacher education. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 56(1), 103-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-021-00207-2
Cowie, B., & Nelson, E. (2021, November 28-December 2). Engaging with the residues of time: Palimpsest as a metaphor [Paper presentation]. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2021 Conference (Online).
Nelson, E., & Cowie, B. (2021, November 28-December 2). A diffractive analysis of visual data nuggets: Image, caption, talk. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2021 Conference (Online).
Research outputs 2020
Charteris, J., Smardon, D., & Nelson, E. (2020). Innovative learning environments and new materialism: A conjunctural analysis of pedagogic spaces. In L. Benade & M. Jackson (Eds.), Design, education & pedagogy (pp. 28-41). Routledge. (Original work published 2017)
Nelson, E., & Charteris, J. (2020). Student voice research as a technology of reform in neoliberal times. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2020.1713867
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2020). ILEs as social assemblages: Implications for initial teacher education. In W. Imms & M. Mahat (Eds.), What is involved in making the journey from traditional to innovative learning environments? Proceedings of international symposium Transitions19: One journey, many pathways (pp. 89-97). Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC). http://www.iletc.com.au/publications/proceedings/
Bishop, P. A., & Nelson, E. J. (2020, April). The Global Listening Project: What 2,000 Young adolescents across the world wish their teachers knew [Paper session]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. http://tinyurl.com/szj5rpk (Conference cancelled)
Bishop, P. A., & Nelson, E. J. (2020, October). The Global Listening Project: What 2,000 Young adolescents across the world wish their teachers knew [Roundtable session]. #AMLE20 (Association for Middle Level Education) Virtual.
Nelson, E. (2020, November). ILEs: Perspectives, opportunities & implications for initial teacher education [Conference presentation]. TEFANZ Research Hui Online.
Nelson, E., & Rehu, M. (2020, October). The potential of ILE for Māori student success [Conference presentation]. NZARE (New Zealand Association for Research in Education) Learning Environment Webinar.
Research outputs 2019
Nelson, E. (2019). Teaching experience and innovative learning environments: Implications for initial teacher education. In M. A. Peters (Ed.), Encyclopedia of teacher education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_377-1
Nelson, E. (2019). Student voice as power-laden activity. In M. A. Peters (Ed.), Encyclopedia of teacher education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_28-1
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2019, April). Learning to teach in innovative learning environments on practicum: Affective, embodied, collaborative practice. Paper presented at the 2019 ITP Research Symposium, Napier, New Zealand.
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2019, October). ILEs as social assemblages: Implications for initial teacher education. Paper presented at the Transitions 19 Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Nelson, E. (2019, April). Tying the threads together and closing remarks. Paper presented at the Primary Education Research Symposium, Napier, New Zealand.
Nelson, E., & Rehu, M. (2019, April). MLE: Māori learning environments. Paper presented at the Primary Education Research Symposium, Napier, New Zealand.
Nelson, E., & Cowie, B. (2019, September 16). Learning in nature Phase 1: Starting points. Presentation to Learning in Nature Project Stakeholders, Napier, New Zealand
Nelson, E. (2019, November 28). Innovative learning environments: Perspectives, opportunities & implications for pre-service education. Brown Bag Research Lunchtime Seminar presented at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.
Research outputs 2018
Nelson, E. (2018). Teachers and power in student voice: ‘Finger on the pulse, not children under the thumb’. In R. Bourke & J. Loveridge (Eds.), Radical collegiality through student voice: Educational experience, policy and practice (pp. 197-216). Singapore: Springer.
Nelson, E., & Rehu, M. (2018). Our vision, our work, our children, our community – ILE development at Richmond School 2015-2017. Report prepared for Richmond School Board of Trustees.
Research outputs 2017
Nelson, E. (2017). ‘It’s cool, people your same age being in charge of you’: Enacting student voice through classroom governance partnerships. In R. M. B. Cowie (Ed.), Realising innovative partnerships in educational research: Theories and methodologies for collaboration (pp. 9–20). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
Charteris, J., Smardon, D., & Nelson, E. (2017). Innovative learning environments and new materialism: A conjunctural analysis of pedagogic spaces. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(8), 808–821. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1298035
Mayes, E., Bakhshi, S., Wasner, V., Cook-Sather, A., Mohammad, M., . . . Nelson, E., . . . Cowley, E. (2017). What can a conception of power do? Theories and images of power in student voice work. International Journal of Student Voice, 2(1). Retrieved from https://ijsv.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IJSV_Mayes-et-al_2017.pdf
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2017). Learning to teach in ILEs on practicum: Anchoring practices for challenging times. Waikato Journal of Education, 22(3), 63–74. https://doi.org/10.15663/wje.v22i3.374
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2017). Addressing the challenges of Innovative Learning Environments for practicum: Socio-spatial entanglements. In M. Mahat & W. Imms. (Eds.), Transitions 2017 Australasia: Symposium proceedings (pp. 41–46). Retrieved from http://www.iletc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Transitions_Melb_Web.pdf
Research outputs 2016
Charteris, J., Smardon, D., & Nelson, E. (2016). Innovative learning environments and discourses of leadership: Is physical change out of step with pedagogical development? Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice, 31(1), 33-47.
Nelson, E. (2016). Re-thinking power in student voice as games of truth: Dealing/playing your hand. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/14681366.2016.1238839
Smardon, D., Charteris, J., & Nelson, E. (2016). Shifts to learning eco-systems: Principals’ and teachers’ perceptions of innovative learning environments. New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work, 12(2), 149-171. Retrieved from https://teachworkojs.aut.ac.nz/autojs/index.php/nzjtw/article/view/31/56
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2016). Learning to teach in innovative learning environments: Candidate teachers’ perceptions [Abstract]. In Conference proceedings TEFANZ Conference & AGM 2016: “How best to educate a nation’s teachers? Debating quality teacher education for today and the future”, Thursday 30 June & Friday 1 July 2016, University of Otago College of Education, 145 Union Street East, Dunedin 9016 (p. 8). Retrieved from http://www.tefanz.org.nz/conferences/2016-conference/
Charteris, J., Smardon, D., & Nelson, E. (2016, November). Innovative learning environments and the conjunctural epoch: A new material reading of the spatial politics of schooling. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2016, Melbourne, Australia.
Nelson, E. (2016, April). Engaging students as partners in co-constructing middle years’ pedagogy: Revealing student influence through discourse analysis. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Nelson, E., & Johnson, L. (2016, October 20). Responding to the challenge of innovative learning environments in preservice education. Presented at the Brown Bag Research Lunch Seminar, Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.
Bishop, P., Alley, K., Andrews, G., Cronenberg, S., Falk‐Ross, F., Miller, N., Moran, C., Nelson, E., & Weiler, C. (2016). Digital technologies. In Middle Level Education Special Interest Group, MLER SIG research agenda (pp. 23-25). Retrieved from http://mlersig.net/research/mler-sig-research-agenda
Nelson, E. (2016). Student voice [Video]. Interview by L. Turner. Resource for EIT Teaching Students Under 25s Professional Development Seminar. Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.
Research outputs 2015
Nelson, E. (2015). Opening up to student voice: Supporting teacher learning through collaborative action research. LEARNing Landscapes, 8(2), 285-300. Retrieved from http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/images/documents/ll-no16/enelson.pdf
Nelson, E. (2015). Student voice as regimes of truth: Troubling authenticity. Middle Grades Review, 1(2). Retrieved from http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/mgreview/vol1/iss2/3
Nelson, E. (2015, September 30). Student voice: What does it mean for teachers? Public lecture presented at University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Nelson, E. (2015, September 10). Student voice: A modern catch-cry but what does it mean for teachers? Public lecture presented at Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.
Nelson, E. (2015, August 27). Power in the research relationship. Presented at the Brown Bag Research Lunch Seminar, Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.
Research outputs 2014
Nelson, E. (2014). Enacting student voice through governance partnerships in the classroom: Rupture of the ordinary for radical practice. FORUM, 56(1), 91-104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/forum.2014.56.1.91
Nelson, E. (2014). ‘Is this student voice?’ Students and teachers re-negotiate power through governance partnerships in the classroom (PhD thesis, University of Waikato). Retrieved from http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/8846
Nelson, E. (2014, June). Shifting the power lens: Power relations within classroom-based student voice initiatives. Paper presented at the 4th Cambridge University Student Voice Seminar, Cambridge, England.
Nelson, E. (2014, November). Student voice research and games of truth: Playing/dealing your hand. In J. Charteris (Chair), Student voice: Interrupting essentialism, power and agency. Symposium conducted at AARE-NZARE 2014: The joint Australian Association for Research in Education and New Zealand Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
Nelson, E. (2014, June 20). Building student capacity to co-govern in the classroom. Presented at the Centre for Children’s Rights, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Nelson, E. (2014, September 30). Faces of voice: Positioning students as partners in classroom decision-making. Presented at the University of Waikato Student Voice Symposium, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Research outputs 2013
Nelson, E., & Bishop, P. (2013). Students as action research partners: A New Zealand example. Middle School Journal, 45(2), 19-26.