Dr Frauke Meyer

PhD, MEd, PGradDipE, MEd (teaching-special needs) GER

Lecturer

In: Learning, Development and Professional Practice » Faculty of Education and Social Work

Research | Current

Interpersonal leadership practices and capabilities (Open-to-learning conversations, problem-solving, building relational trust, openmindedness)
Organisational leadership parctices (goal-setting, leadership effectiveness, coherence)
Leadership preparation (leadership induction, beginning principals' experiences, mentoring)
Teaching for Better Learning (TBL): An inquiry-oriented approach to teaching standards

Teaching | Current

EDPROFST 738 Educational Leadership

EDPROFST 782 Educational Change

Postgraduate supervision

Supervision areas: Educational leadership, leadership practices, trust, mentoring

Preferred methodology: Mixed methods and qualitative.

Masters and Doctoral (EdD, PhD)

Areas of expertise

Frauke Meyer is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Education and a Research Associate with the Faculty's Centre for Educational Leadership. Her academic career and research has four main strands: educational leadership and leadership practices, teacher education, literacy practices and special needs education. Her current research is concerned with school leadership, leadership induction/mentoring and interpersonal leadership practices. The immediate focus of her research is the analysis, assessment, and development of interpersonal behaviours that promote relational trust. Her expertise lies in qualitative as well as quantitative research methodologies and mixed methods designs. Frauke has worked on a number of small to large-scale research projects and program evaluations.

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Member of the Auckland Science Policy Exchange Initiative by the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
Member of the LDPP Postgraduate Committee

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Meissel, K., Meyer, F., Yao, E. S., & Rubie-Davies, C. M. (2017). Subjectivity of teacher judgments: Exploring student characteristics that influence teacher judgments of student ability. Teaching and Teacher Education, 65, 48-60. 10.1016/j.tate.2017.02.021
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/33824
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Esther Yao, Kane Meissel, Christine Rubie-Davies
Meyer, F, Le Fevre, D. M., & Robinson, V.M.J. (2017). How leaders communicate their vulnerability: Implications for trust building. International Journal of Educational Management, 31 (2), 221-235. 10.1108/IJEM-11-2015-0150
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/33145
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Deidre Le Fevre, Viviane Robinson
Sinnema, C. E., Meyer, F., & Aitken, G. (2017). Capturing the complex, situated and active nature of teaching through inquiry-oriented standards for teaching. Journal of Teacher Education, 68 (1), 9-27. 10.1177/0022487116668017
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/31933
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Claire Sinnema, Graeme Aitken
Meyer, F., Yao, E., & Meissel, K. (2016). Sources of Variability in Summer Learning in New Zealand. Paper presented at AERA 2016, Washington, D.C. , US. 8 April - 12 April 2016. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Kane Meissel, Esther Yao
Robinson, V. M., Meyer, F., Sinnema, C., & Le Fevre, D. (2016). Truth-seeking or truth-claiming? Leaders' patterns of social problem solving. Paper presented at 2016 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA. 8 April - 12 April 2016. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Deidre Le Fevre, Viviane Robinson, Claire Sinnema
Meyer, F., Robinson, V. M. J., Sinnema, C., & Patuawa, J. (2016). Practices of and challenges for novice principals in setting goals for school improvement. Paper presented at AERA annual meeting, Washington D.C., US.. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Viviane Robinson, Claire Sinnema
Le Fevre, D. M., Sinnema, C. E. L., & Meyer, F. (2016). Possibilities for school improvement through Open-to-learning Leadership. In V. M. J. Robinson, D. M. Le Fevre, C. E. L. Sinnema (Eds.) Open-to-learning leadership: How to build trust while tackling tough issues (pp. 231-245). Moorabbin, Vic: Hawker Brownlow Education.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Deidre Le Fevre, Claire Sinnema, Viviane Robinson
Meissel, K., Meyer, F., Yao, E., Rubie-Davies, C., Timperley, H., & Ell, F. (2015). Exploring student characteristics that influence teacher judgments of student ability. Paper presented at 16th Biennial Conference of EARLI (European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction), Limassol, Cyprus. 25 August - 29 August 2015. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Christine Rubie-Davies, Kane Meissel, Esther Yao, Fiona Ell