Professor Stuart McNaughton

PhD, MA 1st Class Honours (in Education), BA

Professor

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Biography

Professor Stuart McNaughton is in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education and is also Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre.

Research | Current

My programme of research has several strands. It includes work on the development of a psychological model of socialisation (incorporating concepts of teaching, learning and development) applicable to informal and formal educational settings which provides a means of analysing development within and across settings. Associated with this is the demonstration through research applications of ways of incorporating cultural processes in research tools and in explanations of teaching, learning and development. These applications contribute to solutions to a long standing difficulty in developmental and educational psychology, explaining the role of culture in teaching and learning. The programme involves systematic applications of these concepts to areas of educational concern, specifically literacy instruction and language acquisition, and the identification and testing of specific properties of instruction in procedures designed to enhance teaching and learning. The programme contributes also to the development of more effective and equitable education. In addition to specific instructional procedures, recent work includes the development of assessment tools for language and literacy applicable to both English medium and Maori medium instruction in New Zealand, and in English medium instruction in other countries.

My current position includes being a Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre which opened in October 1998. This is an externally funded centre developing research-based educational programmes in communities with low resources in South Auckland. I lead a research team (of colleagues, post doctoral and doctoral students) in studies of effective educational interventions for schooling success. The centre has a focus on Maori and Pacific Islands children’s educational achievement.

Distinctions/Honours

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Membership of Professional Associations

New Zealand Psychological Society
Member 1974-1998; Awards Committee (Council) 1983
New Zealand Association for Research in Education 1979 – present
President 1993 – 1995
Council Member 1991 - 1997
American Educational Research Association
Member 1998 – to present
American Psychological Association
Foreign Affiliate 1976 - to present
International Reading Association
Member 2003-present
Society for Research in Child Development
Member 1976 - to present

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Thomas, S., Meissel, K., & McNaughton, S. (2019). What developmental resources do our pre-schoolers have approaching the transition to school?. Ministry of Education. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/47719
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Kane Meissel
McNaughton, S., Rosedale, N., Jesson, R., Hoda, R., & Teng, L. (2018). How digital environments in schools might be used to boost social skills: Developing a conditional augmentation hypothesis. Computers and Education, 126, 311-323. 10.1016/j.compedu.2018.07.018
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/44961
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Naomi Rosedale, Rebecca Jesson, Rashina Hoda
Jesson, R., McNaughton, S., Wilson, A., Zhu, T., & Cockle, V. (2018). Improving Achievement Using Digital Pedagogy: Impact of a Research Practice Partnership in New Zealand. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 50 (3), 183-199. 10.1080/15391523.2018.1436012
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/42378
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Tong Zhu, Rebecca Jesson, Aaron Wilson
Jesson, R., McNaughton, S., Rosedale, N., Zhu, T., & Cockle, V. (2018). A mixed-methods study to identify effective practices in the teaching of writing in a digital learning environment in low income schools. Computers and Education, 119, 14-30. 10.1016/j.compedu.2017.12.005
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/42570
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Naomi Rosedale, Rebecca Jesson, Tong Zhu
Reese, E., Keegan, P., McNaughton, S., Kingi, T. K., Carr, P. A., Schmidt, J., ... Morton, S. (2018). Te reo Māori: Indigenous language acquisition in the context of New Zealand English. Journal of Child Language, 45 (2), 340-367.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/44020
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Keegan, Susan Morton, Cameron Grant
Lai, M. K., & McNaughton, S. (2018). LEARNING NETWORKS FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT. In C. Brown, C. L. Poortman (Eds.) (pp. 152-171). ROUTLEDGE.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Mei Kuin Lai
Robinson, V., Bendikson, L., McNaughton, S., Wilson, A., & Zhu, T. (2017). Joining the dots: The challenge of creating coherent school improvement. Teachers College Record, 119 (8), 1-44.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/36477
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Aaron Wilson, Viviane Robinson, Tong Zhu
Wilson, A., McNaughton, S., & Zhu, T. (2017). Subject area literacy instruction in low SES secondary schools in New Zealand. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 40 (1), 72-85.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39838
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Aaron Wilson, Tong Zhu