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What’s in a title? The use of honorifics in media coverage
(Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2008)On the 15th August 2006, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu (referred to in this paper as Te Arikinui) passed away at the age of 75 years old after serving the Kingitanga movement for forty years. Her passing heralded the ... -
What’s the story? Outdoor education in New Zealand in the 21st century
(Physical Education New Zealand, 2008)Outdoor education, in its various guises, has been part of the New Zealand education system for decades and is considered by many to be integral to school life. This paper addresses outdoor education within physical education ... -
Whāia ngā pae o te māramatanga: our horizons of pursuit
(New Zealand Association of Scientists, 2019)In Aotearoa New Zealand there is a growing recognition that Māori engagement and leadership across the science and research sector is essential for addressing national challenges and realising the distinctive contribution ... -
Whānau aspirations, extracurricular activity and positive youth development: The leisure activity patterns and narratives of successful young Māori men and how they might inform urban whānau raising tamatāne.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The purpose of this research is to offer parents and whānau (extended family groups) insight about the kinds of leisure activities that might make a positive contribution to their boys’ development. Focused on the positive ... -
Whānau Māori explain how the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool assists better access to health services
(2019)In this paper whānau Māori highlight how a Kaupapa Māori centred intervention (the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool) has improved interactions with health services. The Harti tool is undergoing a Randomised Control Trial at ... -
Whānau Stories: Creating meaningful engagement and wellbeing for the indigenous culture of Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2017)This research sees my interests coalesce into a particular focus on how collaborative partnerships with parents/caregivers can provide whānau Māori with opportunities to strengthen wellbeing in their own lives. It is located ... -
When appearances are misleading: Psychosocial consequences of facial masking in Parkinson’s disease
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Facial masking, the loss of expressive facial mobility in Parkinson’s disease, has the potential to impact communication, emotion perception, subjective wellbeing, and social relationship functioning. This unique symptom ... -
When citizen politics becomes uncivil: Between popular protest, civil society and governance in Jamaica
(The University of Waikato, 2007)This thesis focuses on the problem of incivility within the domains of citizen politics and civil society by exploring the proclivity for popular protest in Jamaica and the intersections between popular citizen protest, ... -
When does it get any easier?: Beginning teachers' experiences during their first year of teaching.
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2001)Studies of beginning teachers' readiness to teach indicate a range of areas in which these teachers feel nervous about teaching, prior to beginning their first teaching position. Studies of the first year of teaching ... -
When educational supervision meets clinical supervision: what can we learn from the discrepancies?
(Routledge, 2008)The authors question the taken-for-granted notion of supervision. Their concerns arose out of an attempt to introduce 'clinical' supervision into academia as a way of addressing an increasing number of the ethical issues ... -
When loanwords are not lone words: Using networks and hypergraphs to explore Māori loanwords in New Zealand English
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2023)Networks are being used to model an increasingly diverse range of realworld phenomena. This paper introduces an exploratory approach to studying loanwords in relation to one another, using networks of co-occurrence. While ... -
When one of them is in our place: Early childhood settings as spaces of resistance
(Sage Publications, 2016)When they come to us in our place, what happens, for them and for us? This article investigates conceptions of Otherness through the story of an immigrant early childhood teacher, seen as the stranger, foreigner, who comes ... -
When salient science is not enough to advance climate change adaptation: Lessons from Brazil and Australia
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Increased social and environmental vulnerability to extreme climatic events and inherent aggravation of environmental and social problems has placed climate change adaptation as an urgent challenge for decision-makers. ... -
When Two Worlds Collide: Mātauranga Māori, Science and Health of the Toreparu Wetland
(University of Waikato, 2014)Much of our understanding of wetland health and function comes from scientific-based monitoring and methodologies. However, there is a wealth of knowledge to be gained from Māori-value based assessment methods for monitoring ... -
Where did the rats of big South Cape Island come from?
(New Zealand Ecological Society, 2016)The ship rat invasion of Big South Cape Island/Taukihepa in the 1960s was an ecological catastrophe that marked a turning point for the management of rodents on offshore islands of New Zealand. Despite the importance of ... -
"Where did we go wrong?" An examination of students treatment of experimental error in engineering mechanics laboratories
(CQUniversity Australia, 2008)The ability of engineers and applied scientists to undertake experimental measurements is a fundamental requirement of the profession. However, it is not simply good enough to be able to perform experiments if we are not ... -
Where else have TDRs been applied
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013)Phillip originally hails from Reporoa. His upbringing and living rurally in the Western Bay of Plenty District for many years, including developing his own orchard, gives him a strong appreciation of the rural environment. ... -
Where firms choose to disclose voluntary environmental information
(Elsevier, 2011)Corporate environmental performance is of increasing importance to investors, public policy makers and the general public. Firms disclose environmental information (mostly) voluntarily in their annual reports and on their ... -
Where geology meets pedology: Late Quaternary tephras, loess, and paleosols in the Mamaku Plateau and Lake Rerewhakaaitu areas
(Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2012)On this trip we focus on tephrostratigraphy and soil stratigraphy together with aspects of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction over long and short time-spans. We will examine the relationship between the deposition of tephras ... -
Where have all the children gone? Experiences of children, parents and teachers in a changing early childhood education service
(University of Waikato, 2014)This study analyses the experiences of children, parents and teachers in a changing early childhood education (ECE) service in New Zealand. This thesis derived from the researcher’s growing awareness of neo-liberal politics ...
