Amanda White

Kairangahau | Researcher

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