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Highlights: Induction
(Human Resources Development Working Group, APEC and Department of Education, 2015-02)This chapter on induction programs reviews recent research, Economy policies, and promising practices based on surveys filled out by Economy researchers participating in this international study. This is the chapter 8 ... -
Water systems: New Zealand particularly vulerable to climate change
(New Zealand Planning Institute, 2018-03)This article outlines the findings of research commissioned by the Deep South National Science Challenge - a major interdisciplinary collaboration designed to help enable New Zealanders to adapt, manage risk, and thrive ... -
A renewed look at Greenstone: Lessons from the second decade
(IPSI Transactions on Internet Research, 2020)The Greenstone Digital Library Software has helped spread the practical impact of digital library technology around the globe. As Greenstone enters its third decade, this article takes are newed look at its development, ... -
The problem with 'the problem with gangs': Reflections on practice and offender desistance
(Department of Corrections/Ara Poutama Aotearoa, 2015)Gang membership is considered to be a criminogenic factor that negatively impacts an individual’s ability to successfully desist from offending and presents special management challenges across Corrections’ service delivery. ... -
The last defence against gang crime: Exploring community approaches to gang member reintegration
(Ara Poutama Aotearoa The Department of Corrections., 2018)There is a need to recognise that gangs are a form of community with accompanying norms, values, processes and practices internal to those communities. Any behaviour change efforts with members of these groups would benefit ... -
Dancing into the unknown: Learning leadership
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018-09-12)In this chapter I explore the ways in which understandings of women’s leadership intersect with critical feminist pedagogies and with my practice as a dance artist. Combining narrative and theorizing, I retrace my dancing ... -
INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS RUPTURE AND REVIVAL IN THE PACIFIC
(POLYNESIAN SOC INC, 2019-12-01)This special issue arose from a panel, “Political and Religious Conversions in the Pacific”, convened by Fraser Macdonald and Michael Goldsmith at the 2017 Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) annual conference held ... -
MELANESIA BURNING: RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC
(POLYNESIAN SOC INC, 2019-12-01)In the history of Pacific Christianity, the explosion of revival activity within Melanesia during the 1970s remains an untold story. Within this regional spiritual upheaval, ecstatic Pentecostalist phenomena spread with ... -
Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui river claims settlement) Bill – the endless quest for justice
(Maori Law Review Ltd, 2016-08)Linda Te Aho continues her review of the new legal framework for Te Awa Tupua (the Whanganui River system) as part of the settlement of historical claims by Whanganui iwi about the Whanganui River. -
Strawmen and the decolonisation of the academy
(Macquarie University Australia, 2019-07-10)For this piece I take as my point of departure Biko Agozino’s response to a series of questions posed by a member of the audience, to a panel he was a member of during this time in New Zealand. The panel in question was ... -
Melody slithering through the misery [Review of Good-bye Maoriland: The songs and sounds of New Zealand's Great War by Chris Bourke]
(New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa, 2018)For both civilians and the soldiers alike on active service during WWI, music proved a significant and enduring element of New Zealand’s war effort and war experience. This was recognised at the time: a contributor to the ... -
PATHA's vision for transgender healthcare under the current health reforms
(New Zealand Medical Association, 2023)Aim: The Aotearoa New Zealand healthcare system does not adequately meet the needs of transgender people. Due to healthcare reforms and increases in funding and awareness of transgender health, the Ministry of Health has ... -
Mana whenua / Belonging through assessment: A kōhanga reo perspective
(2020)This article presents the findings from a Teacher Led-Innovation Fund (TLIF) project where kaiako set out to develop and then explore Ngā kōrero tuku iho as an assessment approach within kōhanga reo. Underpinned by kaupapa ... -
Dancing national Identity: The evolution of meta-narratives in Colombian and Filipino Folk Dance
(2023-04-04)The Philippines and Colombia share a history of colonial conquest from the same country, Spain. This shared history has influenced the ways in which folk dance has developed. Both countries have a wide folk repertoire, ... -
Reo Rua Pukapuka Pikitia: Whānau drawing on their community cultural wealth to create strategies for developing Te Reo Rangatira
(2023)The use of Te Reo Māori in Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand is mandated in the ECE curriculum. Research shows that picturebooks are powerful tools in language learning, but there is a lack of research ... -
Early childhood teachers partnering with teacher educators to connect children to taiao (the natural world) through place-based learning
(2023-04-27)Initial cycles of an action research project brought together local early childhood (ECE) teachers, and tertiary ECE teacher educators, to explore possible uses of the Ōtātara Outdoor Learning Centre (ŌOLC), adjoining the ... -
Quantum empathy: an alternative narrative for global transcendence
(Routledge, 2020)This paper proposes an alternative narrative for global transcendence that has spirituality at the core of shaping society. It draws on contemplative practices such as mindfulness, reflexivity and empathy that may contribute ... -
FEAT: A fairness-enhancing and concept-adapting decision tree classifier
(Springer, 2020-10-15)Fairness-aware learning is increasingly important in socially-sensitive applications for the sake of achieving optimal and non-discriminative decision-making. Most of the proposed fairness-aware learning algorithms process ... -
Work distribution of multiple Cartesian robot arms for kiwifruit harvesting
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2020-02-01)Employing multiple robot arms for kiwifruit harvesting can raise the efficiency since the task completion time is shortened. However, task partitioning and reachability are two major concerns. It is found that the task ... -
Framework for soft and hard city infrastructures
(Thomas Telford Ltd., 2019)The term city infrastructures is often restricted to the physical elements of a city, while in practice it comprises both hard infrastructures for built environment and utilities, as well as soft infrastructures involving ...
