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Just because. Constructions in spoken and written New Zealand English
(Saarland University of Applied Sciences, 2020)Just because (JB) is widely used and has been a target of commentary and humorous use by English speakers and aroused some interest among linguists, who have investigated its syntax, semantics, and derivation. Some, based ... -
Just part of the job: The experiences of parent caregivers caring for adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury
(University of Waikato, 2015)Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is one of the most frequently occurring injuries during adolescence. Typically care following such injuries is provided informally, by parents and close family members. The requirement ... -
Just take a second to breathe: Empowering youth through mindfulness at Atawhai 2019
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This research was an evaluation of The Kindness Institute’s 2019 Atawhai programme. It examined the effects that exposure to mindfulness-based skills, Māori cultural practices, mentoring, and the creative arts had on a ... -
“Just wrong,” “disgusting,” “grotesque,” “offensive”: How to deal with public rejection of new potentially life-saving technologies
(2018)New technologies can offer solutions to security concerns, such as preventing terrorist attacks. Many new technologies are criticised on moral grounds, leading some potentially life-saving technologies to be left on the ... -
“Just wrong”, “disgusting”, “grotesque”: How to deal with public rejection of new potentially life-saving technologies
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter begins by explaining how PAM was supposed to work and how public expressions of moral repugnance led to the project being shut down. It then introduces and explains the psychology of moral repugnance and ... -
Justice in Therapy: an autoethnography
(University of Waikato, 2014)Questions of social justice are a central concern to the profession of counselling and at the same time readily overlooked perhaps because of the infusion of individualism and humanism out of which counselling emerged. ... -
Justice through service: An action inquiry
(The University of Waikato, 2004)Through 2000 and 2001, I undertook an action research project with a group of staff in a church-affiliated social service agency in Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of the action inquiry was to work with the staff in the ... -
Justifying the design and selection of literacy and thinking tools
(IEJEE, 2008)Criteria for the design and selection of literacy and thinking tools that allow educators to justify what they do are described within a wider framework of learning theory and research into best practice. Based on a ... -
Justifying what we do: Criteria for the selection of literacy and thinking tools
(NZATE, 2006)Teachers of English, along with teachers from across the curriculum, have a moral and professional responsibility to nurture literate thinkers. In this article I argue that teachers who accept this responsibility stand to ... -
The K-complex and slow oscillation in terms of a mean-field cortical model
(Springer New York LLC, 2006-12)We use a mean-field macrocolumn model of the cerebral cortex to offer an interpretation of the K-complex of the electroencephalogram to complement those of more detailed neuron-by-neuron models. We interpret the K-complex ... -
Ka awatea
(New Zealand Psychological Society, 2016)This book realises a long held vision to boldly claim our space in psychology: showing how we as Māori practitioners, researchers, and teachers of psychology realise our belief in the potential of psychology to contribute ... -
Ka mate ko te mate, ka ora taku toa: Ko Ngā Matawhāura o te Rau Tau Tekau mā Iwa
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Tēnei te urutomo atu ki te rau tau o te tekau mā iwa ki te nanaiore i ngā tai o te Matawhāura i ngaeki ai te whenua i horo ai tuanuku, i horo ai te tangata, i tū ai te rangatiratanga. Ko te kimihanga i te āhua ki te tikanga ... -
Ka Māpuna: Towards a rangatiratanga framework for the governance of waterways
(On-line, 2021)Rangatiratanga is thenavigational courseforthis research, the aspiration that guides a frameworkfor thegovernance which, in respect ofwaterways and Te Taiao secures mauri, ecosystem health, and water for domestic and ... -
Ka moemoeā o koutou kaumatua...
(University of Waikato, 2015)Founded by the spiritual leader and prophet Te Kooti Te Turuki Arikirangi, the Ringatū faith came into existence in the 1870s during a very turbulent time for Māori. Struggling for survival many Māori tribes and communities ... -
Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi: Maori identities in the twenty-first century
(Auckland University Press, 2017-02)These social divides and problems are at the heart of this text. -
Kahokaho: ‘Ufi from the God/s; its future in the hands of people
(2012)For people like the Tonga, planting the seeds and harvesting signifies being in harmony with nature and the gods who regulate the process with sufficient rains at the right time and measured amounts of sunshine that helps ... -
Kainui silt loam: how the lepard changed its spots
(1991)The Kainui silt loam occurs on low rolling hills in the northern part of the Hamilton Basin, and is well expressed in Hamilton City. -
Kaitiakitanga - Active guardianship, responsibilities and relationships with the world: Towards a bio-cultural future In early childhood education
(Springer, 2015)The world is a vast family, and humans are children of the earth and sky, and cousins to all living things. Such unity means that nature is the ultimate teacher about life (Royal 2010, p. 9). For Māori (indigenous peoples ... -
Kaitiakitanga o te Taiao - Reconciling Legislative Provisions and Outcomes for Māori
(University of Waikato, 2017)The Resource Management Act (1991) (RMA) was heralded as internationally ground-breaking for its integrated approach, and for cementing 'sustainable management' as its overarching purpose. It was ground-breaking also for ... -
Kaitiakitanga: protecting New Zealand's native biodiversity
(Institute of Biology, 2000)Species diversity is a very important component of a healthy ecosystem, and a necessary condition for long-term sustainable development. However, it is widely recognised that species extinction is on the increase in New ...
