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What does it take to make us listen? The experiences of those leading whole school reform to improve outcomes for indigenous minority students
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis examines how the Kia Eke Panuku: Building on Success school reform initiative shaped the experiences of groups of educators within mainstream New Zealand secondary schools. These experiences are analysed against ... -
What explains the wealth gap between immigrants and the New Zealand born?
(New Zealand Association of Economists, 2007-09)Immigrants are typically found to have less wealth and hold it in different forms than the native born. These differences may affect both the economic assimilation of immigrants and overall portfolio allocation when ... -
What happened to educational criticism? Engaging with a paradigm for observation
(Routledge, 2009)In The Educational Imagination, Elliot Eisner presents a theory of educational criticism and a form of qualitative research in education. Central to his theory is the notion of the connoisseur, a particular kind of observer ... -
What happens to diet and child health when migration splits households? Evidence from a migration lottery program
(Elsevier, 2010)The impact of migration on food security and child health is likely to differ depending on whether children themselves migrate or whether they remain behind while other household members migrate. However, existing studies ... -
What have scholars retrieved from Walsh and Ungson (1991)? A citation context study
(SAGE Publications, 2010)Organizational memory is fundamentally important to organizational learning. The seminal work on organizational memory is Walsh and Ungson’s article published in the Academy of Management Review in 1991. More than 300 ... -
What have we learned? Themes from the literature on best-practice benchmarking
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)The aim of this paper is to review the important themes in the literature on benchmarking, and to assess the contribution to knowledge provided thus far. Four themes from the literature are highlighted: studies of the ... -
What I believe [Book review]
(2010)This article reviews the book “What I believe”, edited by Tariq Ramadan. -
What influences the emergence of a new subject in schools? The case of environmental education
(International Journal of Environmental & Science Education (IJESE), 2010)New subjects are always emerging but only some gain a place in the formal school curriculum. In fact, most of the now accepted conventional school subjects have, at some stage, struggled to become established. This paper ... -
What informs primary school principals' decision-making in relation to teacher placement in class levels?
(ACER Press, 2012)One of the most challenging decisions for primary school principals is to decide what class level each of their teachers will teach. It seems there is very little research on the way principals go about making these ... -
What is a logical diagram?
(2011)Robert Brandom’s expressivism argues that not all semantic content may be made fully explicit. This view connects in interesting ways with recent movements in philosophy of mathematics and logic (e.g. Brown, Shin, Giaquinto) ... -
What is creative to whom and why? Perceptions in advertising agencies
(2003)The authors apply recent advances in creativity theory to discover perceptual differences in the factors of strategy, originality, and artistry among creatives and noncreatives. It was found that current advertising position ... -
What is Māori typography?
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Te Reo Māori was traditionally an oral language similar to many indigenous cultures. Writing systems were not familiar to Māori until 1769 where Māori were introduced to the written language by Pākehā. Early Māori writing ... -
What is the difference? What factors contribute to the variation of achievement for Year 7 and 8 Māori students in high decile, full primary schools?
(University of Waikato, 2013)The educational disparity between indigenous Māori students and those of the majority continue to be a major issue in New Zealand. Attempting to bridge the gap for Māori students has generated focus on Māori student ... -
What is the role of English transition in Māori-medium education?
(University of Waikato, 2010)The place of English language instruction in Māori-medium programmes is a controversial issue. Many Māori-medium schools either exclude it from their curriculum, or pay lip service to it. However, English language instruction ... -
What kind of countryside do the public want: community visions from Wales UK?
(Springer, 2011)This paper assesses how far community led rural visions accord with the current thrust of rural planning policy delivery in the UK. Adapting conventional visioning methods, qualitative techniques were used on eight different ... -
What makes constitutions legitimate? A legal analysis of constitutions and legitimacy: The example of Fiji.
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The title of this thesis What makes Constitutions Legitimate? A Legal Analysis of Constitutions and Legitimacy: the Example of Fiji gives an indication of its subject matter and its significance to understanding the ... -
What makes consumers willing to pay a price premium for national brands over private labels?
(American Marketing Association, 2010)The growing sales of private labels (PLs) pose significant challenges for national brands (NBs) around the world. A major question is whether consumers continue to be willing to pay a price premium for NBs over PLs. Using ... -
What may be learnt about the archaeology of islands from archaeologically derived models of the exploration of Polynesia, 1966-2001?
(Archaeopress, 2008)Polynesian archaeology is one regional specialization in the world-wide practice of archaeological investigations of islands, oceans and seas. It is timely to consider how Polynesian archaeology fits within that newly-articulated ... -
What motivates manufacturing SMEs to outsource offshore in China?: Comparing the perspectives of SME manufacturers and their suppliers
(Emerald, 2011)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the motivations for offshore outsourcing encountered by manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their suppliers in China. The paper explores the ... -
What scanner-panel data tell us about advertising
(2011)There have been some news releases claiming that Professor Henle in Germany has found the chemical identity of UMF, and that in future chemical analysis will be used instead of assays of antibacterial activity to indicate ...
