Deborah Widdowson

University of Auckland — New Zealand

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

6h-index262citations11works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Early Childhood Education and Development(4), Parental Involvement in Education(3), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies(2), Health, Medicine and Society(2), Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity(2)

Publications11 total

Father and mother executive function and parenting: associations with preschool children’s executive function
Early Child Development and Care·2026Open Access
Why go to school? Student, parent and teacher beliefs about the purposes of schooling
Asia Pacific Journal of Education·2014· 13 cited
Final Report for the Evaluation of the Parent Mentoring Project in Manukau. This report was commissioned by the Ministry of Education.
ResearchSPAce (Bath Spa University)·2012
RESEARCH INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPORT PARTICIPATION, TRUANCY, SELF-ESTEEM AND SCHOOL CONNECTEDNESS: FINAL REPORT, commissioned by Sport and Recreation NZ
ResearchSPAce (Bath Spa University)·2012
Who is to Blame? Students, Teachers and Parents Views on Who is Responsible for Student Achievement
Research in Education·2011· 44 cited
2010 Student, teacher and parental beliefs and expectations about learning and their impact on student achievement and motivation: The BELA project. This report was commissioned by the Cognition Institute.
ResearchSPAce (Bath Spa University)·2010
Expectations of Achievement
Research in Education·2010· 89 cited
Parents’ and children’s perceptions of active video games: a focus group study
Journal of Child Health Care·2010· 59 cited
Expectations: Raising achievement
ResearchSPAce (Bath Spa University)·2009
Teleo‐functional constraints on preschool children's reasoning about living things
Developmental Science·2003· 44 cited
The Effects of Teacher Modelling of Silent Reading on Students’ Engagement During Sustained Silent Reading
Educational Psychology·1996· 13 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Robyn Dixon(8), Elizabeth R. Peterson(4), Christine M. Rubie‐Davies(3), Margie J. Elley-Brown(2), S. Earl Irving(2), Christine Davies(2), Earl Irving(1), Ralph Maddison(1), Cliona Ní Mhurchú(1), Andrew Jull(1), Patricia Meagher-Lundberg(1), Deborah Kelemen(1), Tamar Posner(1), Ann L. Brown(1), Krista Casler(1), Dennis W. Moore(1), R A Dixon(1), M. Vanessa Hector-Nathan(1), Louise J. Keown(1), Elizabeth Peterson(1)