Amanda joined NZCER in July 2022. Prior to this, Amanda worked as a speech-language therapist for over 20 years, with experience in both New Zealand and UK education systems (Scotland and England).
Amanda recently completed her PhD on early childhood literacies in a diverse community of Aotearoa New Zealand. For her doctoral research, Amanda used video methods to explore multimodal story interactions between infants/toddlers and others in their family homes and early childhood education (ECE) settings.
Amanda’s current research interests include:
- Multimodal communication
- Early childhood literacies
- Oral language development
- Home-education partnerships
- Sociocultural perspectives on learning
Qualifications
- PhD in Education, University of Auckland
- BSLT (Hons), University of Canterbury
- BA (Hons) in Education, University of Canterbury
Journal publications
- White, A., Gaffney, J.S., and Hedges, H. (2021). Active, competent communicators: Lexie’s story. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984211047998
- Jacobs, M., Harvey, N., and White, A. (2021). Parents and whānau as experts in their worlds: Valuing family pedagogies in early childhood. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 16(2), pp. 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2021.1918187