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Climate change accounting: the challenge of uncertainty in Pacific Islands
(Inderscience, 2017)The paper aims to set out several key issues in relation to climate change research based on accounting and accountability. The literature on climate change accounting and the archival data on climate change from the Pacific ... -
Level 2 Māori medium programmes: What are the perceptions of parents and students on this form of education?
(Springer, 2017)Māori medium education provides a range of options for families wishing to educate their children through the indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand. Level 2 programmes with 51–80% Māori language instruction, can play ... -
The end of national standards: An opportunity to find creativity in primary mathematics?
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2018)On December 12, 2017 the Ministry of Education enacted the new Government’s commitment to end the use of National Standards writing, “schools and kura are no longer required to use and report on National Standards and Ngā ... -
Impact of environmental education on beginning preservice teachers’ environmental literacy
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017)One of the goals of environmental education is the development of environ- mental literacy. The development of environmental literacy for preservice teachers is critical if they are to be con dent and competent to deliver ... -
Using mobile learning in free-choice educational settings to enhance ecological literacy
(2017)This article presents the case for using mobile technologies to facilitate the integration of classroom and outside-of-classroom learning experiences designed to enhance the ecological literacy of primary school students ... -
Numeracy is more than number: The teaching of mathematics for numeracy
(Wilf Malcom Institute of Educational Research, 2018)In recent years, the term numeracy has been commonly used in reference to school mathematics education, alongside its counterpart literacy. While many teachers appear comfortable differentiating between the curriculum area, ... -
Striking gold: Introducing Drama-Maths
(Wilf Malcolm Institue of Educational Research, 2018)Conducted within a Masters in Teaching and Learning, this article details an inquiry which sought to offer meaningful purpose to learning within a fictional frame to engage students in level two mathematics. After considering ... -
Sad or happy? The effects of emotions on stated preferences for environmental goods
(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2017)A substantial literature in behavioural science and psychology shows that emotions affect human choices and values. This paper investigates whether such emotional impacts are also present in stated choice experiments for ... -
Selecting one from many: The development of a scalable visualization tool
(IEEE, 2001)This paper describes visualisation tools to support the task of selecting one object from a collection of many on the basis of its attribute values. For this frequently encountered task we identify a set of tools appropriate ... -
Modelling Energy Balance and Storage in the Design of Smart Microgrids
(IARIA XPS PRESS, 2017)This paper introduces and demonstrates appropriate and realistic modelling approaches for smart microgrids, with a focus on local energy balance. There is an increasing interest in microgrids, as the nature of large-scale ... -
Hangarau me te Māori: Māori and technology
(Auckland University Press, 2018)A sign of a vibrant, healthy developing nation is the adaptation and uptake of new technologies. Māori have a long, but mostly unrecognised, history of ingenious innovation and adaption of new technologies. This chapter ... -
Characterising Sound Visualisations of Specifications using Micro-charts and Refinement
(IEEE, 2017)For validation or for communication with a client, it is useful to create a visualisation of a specification. It is important that the visualisation does not mislead the user. In this work we look at how to characterise ... -
Charles Gould: a farmer living near Te Aroha
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Coming from a wealthy business family and with a brother who became a successful businessman, Charles Gould left the South Island to settle in Waitoa with every prospect of making a success of the large estate he had ... -
Talking the language to death: Observing Hawaiian language classes
(Indigenous Studies Research Network, 2017)In the late 19th century, when the United States began its illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the teaching of languages was dominated by an approach—grammar translation—that has been associated with élitism and ... -
What are the perceptions of Māori bilingual-educated families towards growing up and learning the Māori language?
(2018)The Māori language occupies an important place as New Zealand’s indigenous language. This is despite over a century of attempts to wipe it out. The revitalisation movement from the 1980s has made a significant contribution ... -
Enhancing regulatory compliance by using artificial intelligence text mining to identify penalty clauses in legislation
(2017)As regulatory compliance (or compliance governance) becomes ever more challenging, attempts to engage IT solutions and especially artificial intelligence (AI) are on the rise. This paper suggest that regulatory compliance ... -
William Buchanan Maxwell: a veteran who became ‘Te Aroha’s pet adornment’
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)Famous in Te Aroha as a veteran soldier, Maxwell had fought in the Crimea, China, and India before fighting against Maori in New Zealand. Proud of his four wounds, he would lead a detachment of volunteers marching off to ... -
At the nexus of data and collections: new affordances in the age of mass-scale digital libraries
(ACM, 2018)Within the context of mass-scale digital libraries, this panel will explore methodologies and uses for-as well as the results of- conceiving of "data as collections" and "collections as data." The panel will explore the ... -
MEDDLEing with digital library searches: surmounting user model and system misalignments through lightweight bespoke proxying
(ACM, 2018)We document how surprisingly easy it is for user misconceptions to arise when using digital library search interfaces, and the significant unseen impact this can have on the user's interpretation of search results. Further, ... -
Algebraic invariants arising from the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs
(CMSA (Inc.), 2014)This paper investigates some algebraic properties of the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs, i.e. graphs which have three internally disjoint paths sharing the same two distinct end vertices. We give a complete description ...
