Papers by Christine Harris
Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice
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Journal of educational administration and leadership, 2017
This story of leading change is written by the Principal and Deputy Principal of Thorrington Scho... more This story of leading change is written by the Principal and Deputy Principal of Thorrington School in Christchurch where the leadership focus has been to shift curriculum design and teaching practices to be more responsive to the needs of learners. The article considers the shift in the practices of twenty teachers over a three-year time frame. The school does not have purpose built Modern Learning Spaces / Environments (referred to as flexible learning spaces in this article) so considerations for moving towards flexible learning had to start with changing mindsets and pedagogy. Initially there was a group of early up takers from amongst the staff who adapted their classrooms, furniture and processes to implement a change in practice. Although other teachers in the school recognised the success of this team the impetus to change practice across the whole school was largely rhetoric. Over time school wide resultant change was an amalgam of purpose, support, and development of new skills and strategies. Various drivers for change were recognised as being helpful for some teachers but not for others. Changes in teachers' mindsets happened independently of each other and at different times for different people but together they eventually combined to change the attitudes and behaviours of teachers towards flexible learning practices. Although student achievement data is improving in all areas across the school this article does not track the trajectory of student data for consideration nor does this article address the community consultation process that occurred alongside this journey. Context for change Since 2007 the New Zealand government vision for education has been to "prepare learners for the knowledge age where people will become 'confident connected actively involved lifelong learners'" (Ministry of Education, 2007, p. 8). As part of this vision the New Zealand government recognised the need to provide flexible and modern learning spaces. In Canterbury where many of the school buildings suffered seismic issues from the significant earthquakes in 2010-2011, the process of rebuilding schools to underpin more flexible learning practices began to happen at a rapid rate with more and more schools emerging from their rebuild with large attractive interior and exterior spaces. The size of these new flexible spaces could easily accommodate 50 to 70 children and two to three teachers and there were many breakout spaces where teachers could work with smaller groups of students. Size wasn't the only consideration in these rebuilds; lighting, heating, ventilation, facilities, storage, technology and access were also part of the attractive package that the New Zealand government was making available to these school communities. Over the last four years visiting these new schools became a popular way for school leaders to support teachers in their understanding of what flexible learning spaces looked like and more importantly what teachers and students were doing in them. Learning from other teachers and school wide practices marked a significant change in the way that school leaders sought out relevant professional development for their teachers. Many schools, like ours are still waiting for their rebuild. Our estimated time of completion is set at the end of 2019. As school leaders we understood that new buildings are only one aspect of flexible learning
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Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice , 2016
This article discusses the findings of one aspect of a larger research project which asks " What ... more This article discusses the findings of one aspect of a larger research project which asks " What motivates parents to engage with their children's schooling? " The New Zealand education system already encompasses and supports private schools, state integrated schools, special character schools, charter schools and public partnership schools along with state schools. This gives parents myriad of options and adds to the nimbus of competition and choice within the New Zealand education system. Emerging themes in this section of the research are viewed theoretically through a social capital lens and indicate that middle class parents are active participants in their children's education for many disparate reasons. This article does not consider the drivers for parents to participate in childrens' education in other demographics of society, nor does it include the voices of teachers or children. Knowingly or unknowingly the parents in this research seem to have brought into market driven notions of transparency and data and are seeking advantage for their children to quell their own anxiety about their children's future prospects in a competitive society. The research uses Grounded Theory methodology to distill emerging themes from within and around open ended focus group interviews with fourteen parents.
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Judgment and Decision Making, Feb 1, 2006
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Circulation, Oct 31, 2006
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Neuroimaging Clinics of North America, 2006
This article represents a review of the authors&a... more This article represents a review of the authors' experience with two 3.0 T Siemens Trio Whole Body MR imaging units, with a cumulative experience of 12 months total imaging time on these scanners, over 1000 cases. The authors were able to identify and review numerous patients who had diagnostic studies both on 1.5 T and 3.0 T.
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Sex Roles, 2011
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Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2003
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998
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Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2005
Page 1. http://psr.sagepub.com/ Review Personality and Social Psychology http://psr.sagepub.com/c... more Page 1. http://psr.sagepub.com/ Review Personality and Social Psychology http://psr.sagepub.com/content/9/1/76 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0901_6 2005 9: 76 Pers Soc Psychol ...
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Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2003
The specific innate modular theory of jealousy hypothesizes that natural selection shaped sexual ... more The specific innate modular theory of jealousy hypothesizes that natural selection shaped sexual jealousy as a mechanism to prevent cuckoldry, and emotional jealousy as a mechanism to prevent resource loss. Therefore, men should be primarily jealous over a mate's sexual infidelity and women over a mate's emotional infidelity. Five lines of evidence have been offered as support: self-report responses, psychophysiological data, domestic violence (including spousal abuse and homicide), and morbid jealousy cases. This article reviews each line of evidence and finds only one hypothetical measure consistent with the hypothesis. This, however, is contradicted by a variety of other measures (including reported reactions to real infidelity). A meta-analysis of jealousy-inspired homicides, taking into account base rates for murder, found no evidence that jealousy disproportionately motivates men to kill. The findings are discussed from a social-cognitive theoretical perspective.
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2000
Three studies measured psychophysiological reactivity (heart rate, blood pressure, and electroder... more Three studies measured psychophysiological reactivity (heart rate, blood pressure, and electrodermal activity) while participants imagined a mate's infidelity. The specific innate modular theory of gender differences in jealousy hypothesizes that men are upset by sexual infidelity and women are upset by emotional infidelity, because of having faced different adaptive challenges (cuckoldry and loss of a mate's resources, respectively). This view was not supported. In men, sexual-infidelity imagery elicited greater reactivity than emotional-infidelity imagery. But, sexual imagery elicited greater reactivity even when infidelity was not involved, suggesting that the differential reactivity may not specifically index greater jealousy. In two studies with reasonable power, women did not respond more strongly to emotional infidelity. Moreover, women with committed sexual relationship experience showed reactivity patterns similar to those of men. Hypothetical infidelity self-reports were unrelated to reactivity.
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001
The cardiovascular effects of embarrassment and of attempts to suppress embarrassment were examin... more The cardiovascular effects of embarrassment and of attempts to suppress embarrassment were examined. In 2 studies, embarrassment was associated with substantial increases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, which monotonically increased over a 2-minute embarrassment period. In contrast, heart rate (HR) rose significantly during the 1st minute of embarrassment but returned to baseline levels during the 2nd minute. This pattern of reactivity may be distinctive. The effects of trying to suppress emotion in an interpersonal situation were also tested. Relative to the no-suppression group, suppression participants showed greater blood pressure during embarrassment and during posttask recovery. Suppression did not significantly affect HR. Possible mechanisms for these results, including passive coping, are discussed. Nonverbal behavior was also examined.
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The Journal of Pediatrics, 2008
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Journal of Neurosurgery, 2003
Whether the brain differs in its response to traumatic injury as a function of age remains unclea... more Whether the brain differs in its response to traumatic injury as a function of age remains unclear. To further investigate the age-dependent response of the brain to mechanical trauma, a cortical contusion model scaled for brain growth during maturation was used to study the evolution of injury over time as demonstrated on serial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies in piglets of different ages. Sixteen Yorkshire piglets received scaled cortical contusions. Animals were either 5 days (six animals), 1 month (five animals), or 4 months (five animals) of age at injury. These ages correspond developmentally to human infants, toddlers, and early adolescents, respectively. Serial MR imaging examinations, including fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery and T1-, T2-, and diffusion-weighted sequences were performed at 24 hours, 1 week, and 1 month after injury. Lesions were quantified and expressed as a ratio of the lesion volume divided by the volume of the uninjured hemisphere for each animal and each MR sequencing. Differences in relative lesion volume among the varied ages at a single time point and in lesion volume over time at each age were compared. In addition, the relationship between age and evolution of injury were analyzed using a two-compartment mathematical model. Histological features were examined at 1 month postinjury. Despite comparable injury inputs, the youngest animals had lesions whose volumes peaked earlier and resolved more quickly than those in older animals. The intermediate-age piglets (toddler) had the most pronounced swelling of any age group, and the oldest piglets (adolescent) had the latest peak in lesion volume. Scaled cortical contusions in piglets demonstrated age-dependent differences in injury response, both in magnitude and time course. These observations may shed light on development-related trauma response in the gyrencephalic brain.
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Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 1983
The concentration of taurine in the aqueous humour and serum of 21 rabbits with hereditary buphth... more The concentration of taurine in the aqueous humour and serum of 21 rabbits with hereditary buphthalmia (Bu rabbits-genotype bu/bu) was compared with the aqueous and serum taurine levels of eight strain-related normal rabbits (JAX) and nine non-strain-related normal rabbits (MCV). There was a significant difference in the mean aqueous taurine concentration in each of the three groups. The Bu rabbits had only 29% of the MCV rabbits' level while the JAX rabbits were intermediate with 56% of the MCV level. It is suggested that some of the JAX rabbits may be heterozygous and the Bu rabbits homozygous for a semi-dominant allele of a gene that is less efficient in taurine transport in the ciliary epithelium than the normal allele represented by the MCV animals.
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Education + Training, 2007
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British Journal of Health Psychology, 2007
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2006
Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 1, no. 1, July 2006, pp. 48-63. Gender Differences in Risk Ass... more Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 1, no. 1, July 2006, pp. 48-63. Gender Differences in Risk Assessment: Why do Women Take Fewer Risks than Men? Christine R. Harris 1 , Michael Jenkins University of California, San Diego ...
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