Joce Nuttall

Jocelyn "Joce" Grace Nuttall is a New Zealand education academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in teacher education, early childhood curriculum policy and workforce capacity-building.

Jocelyn Nuttall
Born	1961
Awards	Fellow of the Australian Teacher Education Association
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Canterbury
Theses	Women, capitalism and feminisation: workers' experiences in private and non-profit childcare centres (1992) Why don't you ask someone who cares? (2004)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Canterbury, Australian Catholic University
Doctoral students	E. Jayne White

Academic career

Nuttall qualified as a teacher at the Dunedin College of Education and the University of Otago, and taught in primary schools in New Zealand and Australia before moving into early childhood education.^[1] She was appointed as a senior lecturer at Christchurch College of Education in 1990.^[1] Nuttall completed a master's degree in education in 1992 titled Women, capitalism and feminisation: workers' experiences in private and non-profit childcare centres at the University of Canterbury.^[2] In 2004 she completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, with a thesis titled Why don't you ask someone who cares?.^[3] Nuttall first worked at Monash University before moving to the Australian Catholic University in 2011, where she was Research Director of Teacher Education.^[1] Nuttall then joined the faculty of the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor. As of 2024 Nuttall is Executive Dean for the School of Education at Canterbury.^[4]

Nuttall's research focuses on the education of teachers and educational leaders. She is also interested in how to develop workforce capacity-building in early childhood education, and in early childhood curriculum policy.^[4][5]

Nuttall edited the first two editions ofWeaving te Whāriki: Aotearoa New Zealand’s early childhood curriculum document in theory and practice, a series of critical reflections on the New Zealand early childhood curriculum, and was joined by Alexandra Gunn for the third edition.^[6]

Honours and awards

Nuttall was elected a Distinguished Member of the Australian Teachers Education Association in 2019.^[1][4] She was awarded the Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence in 2018.^[4]

Selected works

• Alexandra Gunn and Joce Nuttall (eds) Weaving te Whāriki: Aotearoa New Zealand’s early childhood curriculum document in theory and practice New Zealand Council for Educational Research. 3 editions. ISBN 978-1-98-854280-5 (3rd edition)
• Sally Murray; Joce Nuttall; Jane Mitchell (January 2008). "Research into initial teacher education in Australia: A survey of the literature 1995–2004". Teaching and Teacher Education. 24 (1): 225–239. doi:10.1016/J.TATE.2007.01.013. ISSN 0742-051X. Wikidata Q125455466.
• Joce Nuttall; Susan Edwards; Ana Mantilla; Sue Grieshaber; Elizabeth Wood (12 March 2015). "The role of motive objects in early childhood teacher development concerning children's digital play and play-based learning in early childhood curricula". Journal of In-Service Education. 41 (2): 222–235. doi:10.1080/19415257.2014.990579. ISSN 1367-4587. Wikidata Q125455450.
• Kate Ord; Joce Nuttall (November 2016). "Bodies of knowledge: The concept of embodiment as an alternative to theory/practice debates in the preparation of teachers". Teaching and Teacher Education. 60: 355–362. doi:10.1016/J.TATE.2016.05.019. ISSN 0742-051X. Wikidata Q125455435.
• Ali Formen; Joce Nuttall (12 February 2014). "Tensions Between Discourses of Development, Religion, and Human Capital in Early Childhood Education Policy Texts: The Case of Indonesia". International Journal of Early Childhood. 46 (1): 15–31. doi:10.1007/S13158-013-0097-Y. ISSN 0020-7187. Wikidata Q125455459.
• Yrjö Engeström; Joce Nuttall; Nick Hopwood (30 August 2020). "Transformative agency by double stimulation: advances in theory and methodology". Pedagogy Culture and Society. 30 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1080/14681366.2020.1805499. ISSN 1468-1366. Wikidata Q125455413.
• Joce Nuttall; Sally Murray; Terri Seddon; Jane Mitchell (November 2006). "Changing Research Contexts in Teacher Education in Australia: Charting new directions". Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. 34 (3): 321–332. doi:10.1080/13598660600927224. ISSN 1359-866X. Wikidata Q125455470.