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Accompanied by suspicion: An ethnographic account of negotiating gender tensions and positioning in counselling practice and researching child sexuality
(Routledge, 2015)This chapter presents my experience of journeying into research on the contentious area of sexuality in childhood. Reflecting on experiences from professional, personal and academic contexts, I expose occasions of discomfort, ... -
Addressing diversity: Race, ethnicity, and culture in the classroom
(Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)The widely accepted educational goals for Maori, established at the first Hui Taumata Matauranga held in 2001, are that Maori ought to be able to live as Maori, actively participate as citizens of the world, and enjoy both ... -
Advancing Scholarship /scholarship in geography classrooms
(New Zealand Council for Educational Research Press (NZCER), 2015)The Scholarship examination is a longstanding feature of secondary school assessment. Scholarship is available to our “brightest and best” students in geography, and it is designed to recognise excellence and thereby enhance ... -
Aesthetics of the beautiful: Ideologic tensions in contemporary assessment
(Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2011)Pedagogy is an uncertain art. Yet by its very nature, contemporary teaching and learning practice typically suggests that the expert teacher must come to know their student well enough to plan and predict for educational ... -
Afterword: Emotional reason: Challenging cognitivism in education
(Sense Publishers, 2015)In 2004 R. W. Picard and nine colleagues at the MIT Media Lab published “Affective Learning – A Manifesto” that registered a challenge to cognitive theories recognizing the way that the computer as model and metaphor had ... -
The age of personalized medicine—From patients to consumers: The digital environment, clickwrap contracts, and implications for autonomy
(Oxford University Press, 2019)How many online contracts have you entered into this year and how many of those did you actually read? This chapter explores the impact that the designed environment of websites and electronic contracts have on the exercise ... -
Agile methods for agile universities
(Sense Publishers, 2013)We explore a term, Agile, that is being used in various workplace settings, including the management of universities. The term may have several related but slightly different meanings. Agile is often used in the context ... -
Aging and chronic illness in language and sexuality
(Oxford University Press., 2018-09)In Western societies and globally, there is an ageing demographic, and public health issues, such as dementias, are often described using hyperbolic metaphors like 'tsunami' and 'time bomb'. This chapter provides an overview ... -
AI: a new (r)evolution or the new colonizer for Indigenous peoples?
(Initiative for Indigenous Futures and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), 2020)We are often told that there is one constant in life and that is change; it is inevitable, inescapable. When the forces of power begin to blow and conditions are right, change will happen. As the planet undergoes a period ... -
Akoranga whakarei: Learning about inclusion from four kura rumaki
(NZCER Press, 2015)In 2004 the New Zealand Ministry of Education proposed two research projects to understand how learning, social and cultural outcomes were being promoted for tamariki and rangatahi Māori with special educational needs in ... -
Algar do Bom Santo: a Middle Neolithic necropolis in Portuguese Estremadura
(Archaeopress, 2012)A research project on the Algar do Bom Santo necropolis started in 2010. This paper presents a preliminary synthesis on the exhumed human population and a first insight into the funerary practices recorded during the site ... -
All in the family: The history and philosophy of Experimental Philosophy
(de Gruyter, 2022)Experimental philosophy (or “x-phi”) is a way of doing philosophy. It is “traditional” philosophy, but with a little something extra: In addition to the expected philosophical arguments and engagement, x-phi involves the ... -
'Almost with ravished listening': A most rare speaker in King Henry VIII (All is True)
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)Edward Stafford, the third duke of Buckingham, was condemned for high treason and executed on 17 May 1521, despite p rotestations of his innocence throughout his trial and after his indictment. Transplanted from Holinshed's ... -
Alteration, formation, and occurrence of minerals in soils
(CRC Press, 2012)This chapter, like Churchman (2000), seeks to bring readers up to date with information and understanding about the alteration of minerals and the nature of their products in the context of the formation and development ... -
Andisols
(CRC Press, 2012)Andisols are soils that typically form in loose volcanic ejecta (tephra) such as volcanic ash, cinders, or pumice. They are characterized by andic properties that include physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties ... -
Anesthesia-induced state transitions in neuronal populations
(Humana Press., 2010)It is a simple observation that the function of the central nervous system changes abruptly at certain critical brain concentrations of the anesthetic drug. This can be viewed as analogous to “state transitions” in systems ... -
Animals ethics and international law
(Federation Press, 2009)The purpose of this chapter is to give the reader an overview of where some of the ethical debates around animals and international law are found. In part, the chapter builds upon my earlier work in this area. At the time ... -
Aphorisms and archipelagos: Relationality in modernist studies
(Brill, 2019)Modernist studies, these days, is on the move. Global, planetary, transnational, postcolonial, and geomodernist rubrics map new routes of aesthetic interconnection and change as the geographical and temporal reaches of ... -
Appendix A: Maps showing the distributions of lakes in New Zealand and their grouping into distinct districts reflecting the predominance of particular geological processes
(New Zealand Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, 1987-01-01)The large-scale maps of each of the lake districts show lakes with a maximum dimension ≥ c0.5 km. -
Appendix B: Some morphometric parameters of named lakes with areas [greater than or equal to] 1.0 km2, and some smaller lakes, in New Zealand
(New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1987-01-01)Gaps indicate uncertainty or that accurate data are unavailable. Note that lakes with fluctuating levels e.g., those used for hydro-electric purposes, or near coasts have varying parameters. Table based mainly on Irwin ...
