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title: Summerhill school is it possible in Aotearoa New Zealand?: Challenging the neo-liberal ideologies in our hegemonic schooling system
authors: Peck, Mikaere Michelle S.
subjects: Matriarchal society
abstract: The original purpose of this thesis is to explore the possibility of setting up a school in Aotearoa (N... | title: Representations of diversity in the revised New Zealand PictureBook Collection
authors: Daly, Nicola
subjects: picturebooks
abstract: Collections of children’s literature are used for a range of reasons including preservation, record keeping, and more recently the encouragement of intercultural understanding.... | title: Stop 2 Kainui silt loam and Naike clay, Gordonton Rd
authors: Lowe, David J.
subjects: New Zealand
abstract: At this stop are several remarkable features both stratigraphic and pedological, and a “two-storied” soil, the Kainui silt loam alongside (in just a few places) the Naike clay. Both soils are Ultisols.... | maori_origin |
title: Summerhill school is it possible in Aotearoa New Zealand?: Challenging the neo-liberal ideologies in our hegemonic schooling system
authors: Peck, Mikaere Michelle S.
subjects: Matriarchal society
abstract: The original purpose of this thesis is to explore the possibility of setting up a school in Aotearoa (N... | title: Māori Goddesses in Literature Part 1: pre 1880 - 1900
authors: Yates-Smith, Aroha
subjects: Atua wāhine
abstract: Many contemporary Māori are familiar with atua wāhine, Māori goddesses, through accounts that have been passed on to them by word of mouth. Few, however, have had an opportunity to consult account... | title: Digital technologies and online learning in primary education (New Zealand)
authors: Forbes, Dianne Leslie
abstract: Two key sources of research on digital technologies and online learning come in the form of largescale surveys of schools. First, Research New Zealand’s survey (Johnson, Maguire, and Wood 2017) ... | maori_origin |
title: The Unmet Legal, Social and Cultural Needs of Māori with Disabilities
authors: Hickey, Susan Jane
subjects: Māori
abstract: There is little work done in the area of indigenous disability identity issues and how they are recognised in domestic and international human rights laws. The discourse of disability ha... | title: Introduction to special section on Māori culture and education.
authors: Bishop, Russell
subjects: language policy
abstract: An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the need for coordinated language policy, the Treaty of Waitangi, and mon... | title: 'Rock ova and lap up': A critique of Caribbean theories of national identity through the Jamaican public transport system
authors: Bennett, Sharayne
subjects: national identity
abstract: Public transport is a major aspect of the social and economic life of Jamaican people. With a population of 2.7 million and... | maori_origin |
title: The Unmet Legal, Social and Cultural Needs of Māori with Disabilities
authors: Hickey, Susan Jane
subjects: Māori
abstract: There is little work done in the area of indigenous disability identity issues and how they are recognised in domestic and international human rights laws. The discourse of disability ha... | title: "Everything has shaped you": Contributors to young Māori university students' ability to flourish
authors: Major, Darcie Ngahuia
subjects: Maori
abstract: There are many disparities when considering the health and wellbeing of Māori in Aotearoa today, and the education sector is no different, with Māori less ... | title: Congruences modulo ρ between ρ-wisted Hasse-Weil L-values
authors: Delbourgo, Daniel
subjects: Science & Technology
abstract: Suppose E₁ and E₂ are semistable elliptic curves over Q with good reduction at p, whose associated weight two newforms f₁ and f₂ have congruent Fourier coefficients modulo p. Let RS(E... | maori_origin |
title: Te whakatau i te mita o Ngāti Kahungunu; tōna hītori, tōna whanaketanga me tōna ahunga whakamua
authors: MacLeod, Jeremy Tātere
subjects: Ngāti Kahungunu, Dialect
abstract: He Whakamāramatanga
Ko Te Whanganui-a-Tara te maunga,
Ko Waingōngoro te awa,
Ko Takitimu te waka,
Ko Waimārama te marae,
Ko Taupun... | title: Too many Māori and Asian people are drowning – can better cultural understanding reverse the trend?
authors: Wheaton, Belinda
abstract: The article discusses the high rate of drownings in New Zealand, particularly among Māori and Asian communities. It highlights the need for culturally specific water safety ed... | title: Establishing normative calf muscle function values in male rugby union athletes in New Zealand
authors: Ngawhika, Te Manawa
subjects: Biomechanics
abstract: Rugby union is a popular and fast-growing sport played internationally that involves high levels of physical contact and running activities. Unfortunatel... | maori_origin |
title: Te whakatau i te mita o Ngāti Kahungunu; tōna hītori, tōna whanaketanga me tōna ahunga whakamua
authors: MacLeod, Jeremy Tātere
subjects: Ngāti Kahungunu, Dialect
abstract: He Whakamāramatanga
Ko Te Whanganui-a-Tara te maunga,
Ko Waingōngoro te awa,
Ko Takitimu te waka,
Ko Waimārama te marae,
Ko Taupun... | title: The Hospital Transfers Project: Supporting whanau engagement during hospitalisations
authors: Masters-Awatere, Bridgette
abstract: For Māori, as the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, the care of those who are unwell has always been the concern of whānau (family) and community. Māori have established ... | title: The equilibrium model for the effect of temperature on enzymes: Insights and implications
authors: Weinberg, Cristina S.
subjects: Equilibrium Model
abstract: A new, experimentally-validated “Equilibrium Model” describes the effect of temperature on enzymes, and provides a new mechanism for the reversible los... | maori_origin |
title: Māori and community news constructions of Meningococcal B: the promotion of a moral obligation to vaccinate
authors: Groot, Shiloh Ann Maree
subjects: psychology
abstract: News media communicate various risks of disease, showcase medical breakthroughs and disseminate texts that both reflect and renegotiate sh... | title: The Transformative Possibilities of 'Noticing' in Community Gardening and my Life
authors: Casey-Cox, Anna Mary
subjects: Globalised Capitalism
abstract: The growing gap between rich and poor and the degradation of the planet are among the systemically generated outcomes increasingly associated with contempor... | title: Lie theory and separation of variables. 6. The equation iUt + ∆2U = 0
authors: Boyer, C.P.
subjects: Mathematics
abstract: This paper constitutes a detailed study of the nine−parameter symmetry group of the time−dependent free particle Schrödinger equation in two space dimensions. It is shown that this equati... | maori_origin |
title: Māori and community news constructions of Meningococcal B: the promotion of a moral obligation to vaccinate
authors: Groot, Shiloh Ann Maree
subjects: psychology
abstract: News media communicate various risks of disease, showcase medical breakthroughs and disseminate texts that both reflect and renegotiate sh... | title: Education for sustainability in New Zealand schools: An evaluation of three professional development programmes
authors: Eames, Chris W.
subjects: Education for Sustainability
abstract: This Summary Report summarises an evaluation of three Education for Sustainability (EfS) professional development programmes... | title: Mood disorders and poetry: Archaeology of the self
authors: Fraser, Deborah
subjects: creativity
abstract: The focus of this article is on poetry therapy as a readily accessible resource about mood disorders. An examination of poems that reveal each writer's ability to explore moods with a particular focus on... | maori_origin |
title: Intra-propositional relations and their signalling: An investigation of authentic Māori texts
authors: Whaanga, Hēmi
subjects: Language & education
abstract: I report here on one part of a research project that involved the investigation of a range of authentic Māori texts in terms of two types of meaning rel... | title: Boat electrofishing survey of fish abundance in the Ohau Channel, Rotorua, in 2014
authors: Hicks, Brendan J.
abstract: The aim of the survey was to provide on-going monitoring of the fish communities and abundance by boat electrofishing in the Ohau Channel, especially fish species that are taonga to Maori (ee... | title: What is the past?
authors: Young, Benjamin David
subjects: presentism
abstract: This thesis explores the question: what is the past? I take up the radical view that the past exists, but the present and future do not. The four main theories of time have described the past in a variety of ways: Presentism says ... | maori_origin |
title: Intra-propositional relations and their signalling: An investigation of authentic Māori texts
authors: Whaanga, Hēmi
subjects: Language & education
abstract: I report here on one part of a research project that involved the investigation of a range of authentic Māori texts in terms of two types of meaning rel... | title: He Taonga te Ta Moko ki Tauranga Moana: A survey of attitudes, opinions, whakāro noa iho, towards ta moko during the Tauranga Moana, Tauranga Tangata Festival (Labour Weekend 2002)
authors: Cairns, Puawai
subjects: Maori
abstract: During Labour Weekend (26 – 28 October 2002) in Tauranga, a celebration called
... | title: Using swarm optimization to enhance autoencoder’s images
authors: Doaud, Maisa
subjects: computer science
abstract: Autoencoders learn data representations through reconstruction. Robust training is the key factor affecting the quality of the learned representations and, consequently, the accuracy of the appl... | maori_origin |
title: Mā ngā huruhuru ka rere te manu: Understanding leadership for critical educational reform in Aotearoa New Zealand
authors: Anderson, Zac Kylie Elizabeth
subjects: educational leadership
abstract: The research project presented in this thesis explores the leadership journeys of four first-time principals engag... | title: He Māori, He Turi, He Turi, He Māori. Advancing the aspirations of Māori Deaf with their indigenous Connections: A case study
authors: Dunn, Katie Merepaea
subjects: Māori Deaf
abstract: Indigenous peoples consider their connection to whenua (land), whakapapa (genealogy), te reo (language) and tikanga (cultur... | title: Enhancing Skin-Effect Using Surface Roughening and its Potential to Reduce RF Heating from Implant Leads
authors: Seshadri, Sinduja
abstract: Patients wearing Deep Brain Stimulators or Spinal Cord Stimulator implants experience heating at radio frequencies when subjected to an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ... | maori_origin |
title: Mā ngā huruhuru ka rere te manu: Understanding leadership for critical educational reform in Aotearoa New Zealand
authors: Anderson, Zac Kylie Elizabeth
subjects: educational leadership
abstract: The research project presented in this thesis explores the leadership journeys of four first-time principals engag... | title: Memento Mori : Memento Maori – moko and memory
authors: Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia
subjects: tangi
abstract: Moko patterns, mau moko, “wearing ink” is often explained as an act of remembrance, a symbol of honour or success, of grieving or loss. Memento mori, remembering the dead and remembrance of death, pervades ... | title: Testing the efficacy of a motor analogy designed to promote safe landing by older adults who fall accidentally: a study protocol for a randomised control study
authors: Oladi, Sana
abstract: Introduction: Falling is associated with adverse effects on the health of older people. The majority of research into fa... | maori_origin |
title: Waata Kukutai: Rangatira o Ngaati Tiipa 1822-1867
authors: Ewe, Denise Te Tuhi
subjects: Biography
abstract: This thesis examines the life of Ngaati Tiipa rangatira Waata Kukutai (1822-1867), and critiques historical perspectives that have narrowly identified him as merely a Kuupapa loyalist. This study argue... | title: Whānau Māori explain how the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool assists better access to health services
authors: Masters-Awatere, Bridgette
abstract: In this paper whānau Māori highlight how a Kaupapa Māori centred intervention (the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool) has improved interactions with health services. The Harti... | title: Protein from pasture
authors: Donnelly, Paul Edward
subjects: Plant proteins
abstract: Ryegrass, white clover, ryegra.ss/whi te clover and lucerne herbages were used in an industrial pilot-scale study of the effects of regrowth period and season on protein extraction, separation and recovery. Herbage was harv... | maori_origin |
title: Waata Kukutai: Rangatira o Ngaati Tiipa 1822-1867
authors: Ewe, Denise Te Tuhi
subjects: Biography
abstract: This thesis examines the life of Ngaati Tiipa rangatira Waata Kukutai (1822-1867), and critiques historical perspectives that have narrowly identified him as merely a Kuupapa loyalist. This study argue... | title: An evaluation of Te Rau Puawai workforce 100: Academic mentor's perspectives
authors: Nikora, Linda Waimarie
subjects: Maori students
abstract: To evaluate the Te Rau Puawai programme, the Ministry of Health commissioned the
Maori and Psychology Research Unit of the University of Waikato in July 2001. The
o... | title: Bourdieu, feminism and female physical culture: Gender reflexivity and the habitus-field complex
authors: Thorpe, Holly Aysha
subjects: sport
abstract: Feminist theorizing in the sociology of sport and physical culture has progressed through ongoing and intense dialogue with an array of critical positions and... | maori_origin |
title: Political critique and genealogical vision in te oriori a Rihi Puhiwahine, 1870s
authors: Iti Prendergast, Sam
abstract: Long before twentieth-century scholars developed the language to describe 'settler colonialism', nineteenth-century Māori writers, composers, and storytellers critiqued British imperialism a... | title: Paremias xeocosmolóxicas de predición do tempo en galego e maorí (Geocosmologic paroemias of weather prediction in Galician and Maori)
authors: Lopez-Fernandez, Laura
abstract: This comparative study collects phraseological units -dictons- (Rodegem 1984 e Sevilla Muñoz 1988; 1992) related to the semantic field... | title: The effects of dung beetles on ecosystem functioning: From global trends to New Zealand pastures
authors: Hasan, Fevziye
subjects: Dung beetles
abstract: Dung beetles are amazing. Their diverse nesting behaviours affect a suite of important biotic and abiotic ecosystem processes, or functions. However, the dy... | maori_origin |
title: Political critique and genealogical vision in te oriori a Rihi Puhiwahine, 1870s
authors: Iti Prendergast, Sam
abstract: Long before twentieth-century scholars developed the language to describe 'settler colonialism', nineteenth-century Māori writers, composers, and storytellers critiqued British imperialism a... | title: 1999 Professorial Address: Nau te rourou, naku te rourou… Māori education: setting an agenda.
authors: Bishop, Russell
subjects: educational outcomes
abstract: Current educational policies and practices in Aotearoa/New Zealand were developed and continue to be developed within a framework of power imbalances,... | title: The role of brief mindfulness meditation instruction and practice in changing biophysical indicators in pregnant women and their babies
authors: Clark, Mary Rosanne
subjects: Mindfulness
abstract: Pregnancy is a time of change that has the potential to be a stressful experience for some women. There is eviden... | maori_origin |
title: Māori women’s perspectives of leadership and wellbeing
authors: Ruru, Stacey Mariu
subjects: Māori women leadership
abstract: This research sought to understand how Māori women leaders maintain their wellbeing within their leadership roles. Semi-structured interviews acknowledging kaupapa Māori theory (Māori ... | title: How Maui captured the sun: using a MUD for educational simulation
authors: Cunningham, Sally Jo
subjects: computer science
abstract: MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) are text-based, multi-user communication and modelling programs. This paper investigates the potential of a popular extensible MUD, the LambdaMOO syst... | title: Lived experiences of childfree lesbians in the United Kingdom: A qualitative exploration
authors: Clarke, Victoria
subjects: Social Sciences
abstract: Evidence suggests that most lesbians remain childless, but little is known about the childfree lesbian experience. The current study qualitatively explores the... | maori_origin |
title: Māori women’s perspectives of leadership and wellbeing
authors: Ruru, Stacey Mariu
subjects: Māori women leadership
abstract: This research sought to understand how Māori women leaders maintain their wellbeing within their leadership roles. Semi-structured interviews acknowledging kaupapa Māori theory (Māori ... | title: Sharing, listening, learning and developing understandings of Kaupapa Māori research by engaging with two Māori communities involved in education.
authors: Kana, Fred
subjects: Kaupapa Maori research methodology
abstract: This paper is a culmination of common understandings that were elicited from two pieces ... | title: Maintained generalization of delay-specific remembering
authors: White, K. Geoffrey
subjects: memory
abstract: According to the discrimination hypothesis (White, 2002), remembering is a delay-specific discrimination made at the time of retrieval. In the present experiment the delay-specific nature of the disc... | maori_origin |
title: E hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō | Return to your place of nourishment [Te Kōputu a te Whanga a Toi | Whakatāne Art Gallery]
authors: Apiata, Hāwea
subjects: toi Māori
abstract: E Hoki Mai Nei ki te Ūkaipō | Return to Your Place of Nourishment brings together works by four wāhine Māori artists, Aimee Ratana, Aisha... | title: Culture, for and against: patterns of "Culturespeak" in New Zealand
authors: Goldsmith, Michael
subjects: multiculturalism
abstract: Culture is invoked not only as a means of justifying redress for discrimination or historical injustice, but also as a standard of accountability by which the upholding of right... | title: Sexual offender risk assessment strategies: is there a convergence of opinion yet?
authors: Boer, Douglas Pieter
subjects: risk assessment
abstract: While there is no convergence of opinion in the academic literature, many clinicians have already adopted a convergent approach to risk assessment, whether throu... | maori_origin |
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