Noeline Elizabeth Alcorn QSO is a New Zealand education-research academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.^[1]

Academic career

After attending Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington, New Zealand^[2] and a 1971 PhD titled Vision and nightmare : a study of Doris Lessing's novels at the University of California, Irvine, Alcorn moved to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.^[1][3]

Honours and awards

In 1993, Alcorn was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.^[4] In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.^[5]

Selected works

• Alcorn, Noeline. To the fullest extent of his powers: CE Beeby's life in education. Victoria University Press, 1999.
• Locke, Terry, Noeline Alcorn, and John O’Neill. "Ethical issues in collaborative action research." Educational Action Research 21, no. 1 (2013): 107–123.
• Alcorn, Noeline. "Teacher education in New zealand 1974–2014." Journal of Education for Teaching 40, no. 5 (2014): 447–460.
• Alcorn, Noeline. "Knowledge through a collaborative network: a cross‐cultural partnership." Educational action research 18, no. 4 (2010): 453–466.
• Alcorn, Noeline, and Martin Thrupp. "Uncovering meanings: The discourses of New Zealand secondary teachers in context." New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies 47, no. 1 (2012): 107.