Viviane Robinson

Viviane Robinson completed her doctorate at Harvard University and subsequently took a position in the School of Education at the University of Auckland where she is now Professor. She is passionate about doing research that makes a difference to practice, and it is this passion that motivated both this book and her previous, more theoret­ical volume, Problem-Based Methodology: Research for the Improvement of Practice (1993). She has considerable experi­ence in the formative evaluation of school reform initiatives and in teach­ing teachers how to research their own schools and classrooms. She has published extensively about how to understand and close the research-practice gap, and on organizational learning and school improvement. Viviane is the Academic Leader of the induction program for New Zealand’s school principals and Director of a master’s program in educa­tional management.