Browsing by Supervisor "Kotzé, Elmarie"
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Toward vocational training for young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Malaysia: Challenges, opportunities and reasonable hope
(The University of Waikato, 2022)The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (2004) noted that people with learning difficulties including those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), face challenges when attempting to get a job after completing their secondary ... -
"But I still love him": Women talk about love and violence, and counsellors respond
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This feminist research enacts a new materialist performance of theory/practice that investigates love-entangled-with-violence in intimate heterosexual partner relationship. The study investigates the double dilemma of a ... -
Sexual abuse in Jordan: Children and young people speaking up and breaking the silence
(The University of Waikato, 2021)All children and young people have the right to live free from being victims of child sexual abuse and from carrying out harmful sexual behaviour (United Nations, 1989). It is now more than three decades since the United ... -
Mates at the school gates:Investigating peer relationships among rangatahi Māori
(The University of Waikato, 2019)As a teacher, I have found that while some rangatahi feel connected to school, many others do not. In an attempt to reduce the gap between Māori and non-Māori educational achievement, there have been significant nationwide ... -
Incidental teacher<->student moments in an Aotearoa New Zealand secondary school: Entangled encounters with key competencies
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This study focuses on the performance of Key Competencies of the New Zealand curriculum in incidental teacher<->student moments. It makes visible a significant and often taken-for-granted portion of teachers’ daily work. ... -
Counselling in the context of suicidal ideation in Malaysia
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Counselling is particularly challenging in the context of potential harm through suicide. This is a time when it is clear that responsibilities for and influences on practice go beyond the client in the room. Socio-cultural ... -
Discursive and Material Practices of Mourning: Bodies, Space and Time
(University of Waikato, 2017)Within the territory of mourning, this thesis tells three autoethnographic stories of death; the unexpected death of the author’s 16-year old brother, Grant, when she was herself a child; the later painful dying of her ... -
Video-recording for therapeutic purposes in couple counselling
(University of Waikato, 2016)The challenges of producing fair and respectful relationships sometimes takes couples to counselling. Problematic and taken-for-granted, individualistic, adversarial and gendered discursive practices continue to get in the ... -
Heterosexual couples, gender discourse, and the production of relational subjectivity
(University of Waikato, 2015)This study is situated in feminist and poststructural theory. The focus of the study is heterosexual relationships. In particular, the study investigates the shaping effects of patriarchal discourses on the relational ... -
New stories of identity: Alternatives to suspension and exclusion from school
(University of Waikato, 2014)School suspension and exclusion practices are currently under the spotlight. Many schools go to great lengths before employing these disciplinary options. However even in the midst of practices of care for young people, ... -
A Poststructural Autoethnography: Self as event
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis takes the form of a poststructural autoethnography. It explores self as event in order to illustrate the fluid nature of self identities, and is informed by the writings of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, ... -
Reflexive audiencing practices for couple relationships-in-action
(University of Waikato, 2012)This doctoral study offers couples opportunities to be audiences to their own lives as a couple. It does this on the premise that a reflexive, recursive, process of acting and reviewing and acting enhances relationship ... -
Counselling and Religious and Spiritual Values: A Malaysian Study
(University of Waikato, 2011)The developing interest which led to this research project started when I was employed as a counsellor and a counsellor educator in an Islamic faith-based academic institution in Malaysia. Within these positions, I noticed ... -
Discursive dissonance: Critical reflexivity for counselling supervision
(University of Waikato, 2011)When practitioners and supervisors do not share the same counselling language or theoretical orientation, how is shared meaning achieved and relational connection sustained in supervision? How are differences in theoretical ... -
Spirituality in principal leadership and its influence on teachers and teaching
(University of Waikato, 2011)Spirituality in educational leadership has received renewed interest in the past decade. A growing body of literature claims that spirituality can make a difference in leadership practice. Spirituality is a complex and ... -
Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
(University of Waikato, 2010)The challenges of achieving the potential, which the Treaty of Waitangi offers for a postcolonial present and future, have shaped life in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last four decades. This thesis draws on this history ... -
Positioning and re-positioning of individual and family relationships in relation to anorexia/bulimia: An auto-ethnographical informed study
(The University of Waikato, 2010)Emerging from a ten-year long struggle with anorexia and bulimia and moving into a post-structuralist, narrative-guided counselling frame has drawn me to thinking about how knowledge shapes life. Anorexia and bulimia have ...
