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Senses of hauora and wellbeing in early childhood initial teacher education: Report of phase one data
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021-08)Auckland University of Technology, Unitec Institute of Technology, The University of Auckland, and Open Polytechnic have joined together to research early childhood student teacher hauora and wellbeing. The project is ... -
Biculturalism, belonging, and vocal pedagogy: Experiments in embedding mātauranga Māori into the voice curriculum at a New Zealand acting school
(2021-07-31)OUTLINE Who am I? Who are my students? Why is belonging important for an actor? How does belonging link to the idea of biculturalism at Unitec? What is mātauranga Māori? Why should I embed mātauranga Māori into the ... -
Unitec students create street furniture for an Auckland housing community during COVID
(New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA), 2022-03)A portion of the undergraduate course required students to individually design street furniture for Auranga’s Village Square. The brief required the students to utilise recycled timber offcuts found within the Auranga ... -
The impact of COVID-19 on the lifestyle of tertiary students in an NZ polytechnic
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2022-05-05)The COVID-19 pandemic altered people’s life dramatically worldwide, with major concerns in different economic, political, scientific, and public health aspects. The impact on the lifestyle behaviour of the young generation ... -
Desires and doubts on cultural sustainability: A study from Aotearoa New Zealand
(2019-09)Original study - research objectives To know about the cultural components incorporated in an early childhood teacher education classroom; To reflect on how these components impact the learning of students (student-teachers); ... -
Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Research House: a collaboration between student design–makers and a local building contractor
(Monash University, 2019-10)Carter Holt Harvey Research House was a summer–school programme designed for architectural students to digitally design and fabricate a small dwelling in conjunction with construction professionals. The design required ... -
Covid-19: Experience of online learning from accounting courses at Unitec
(2020-11-09)AIM OF STUDY The paper is reflection on the teaching and learning practice in Accounting in the first semester of 2020 when New Zealand was in a period of lockdown The pandemic lockdown in late March 2020 was a rare ... -
The Tāmaki Makaurau Associate Teacher Network
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Practicum experiences are critical to the professional journey of every student teacher as they attain their teaching qualification. It is the site of induction and mentoring, intended to support the student teacher in ... -
Keynote presentation: Teaching into a changing world: Maintaining curricular currency in a continually evolving landscape
(2021-11-24)My research relates to how Screen Education might learn from past changes in order to keep ahead of the current rapid and continuous changes the Screen Industries are currently experiencing. Today, I’m going to be talking ... -
An alternative approach to teaching architectural history: Redrawing the pedagogical boundaries between architectural history and design studio with flexible and blended methods
(Festival Architettura Edizioni, 2021)Through the presentation of a case study this paper advocates for the use of flexible and blended learning techniques to teach architectural history in a way that reinforces the connections between architectural history ... -
Crossing over the cultural boundary to success: A case study
(2021-11-24)The case and our initial responses My observation and analysis My approach with a clear intention The theoretical framework i base my approach on What happened next was a great opportunity The outcome The benefit of ... -
When language skills support is not enough for an international nursing student to pass her placement: A case study
(2021-12)This case study explores my support of a nursing student who failed her placement twice but passed all her theoretical assessments while on campus. When she failed in her second placement with the effort on merely improving ... -
What movement counts as students' mathematical knowing
(2021-11)In educational research, and in teaching, we often privilege students’ verbalisations and written artifacts as demonstrations of their knowing. Increasingly, however, research in a variety of fields, including cognitive ... -
Building inclusivity, diversity and equity in my practice: A case study
(2021-11-23)The case and our initial responses My observation and analysis My approach with a clear intention The theoretical framework i base my approach on What happened next was a great opportunity The outcome The benefit of ... -
Nodal strategies for a sustainable architectural education
(University of A Coruña, 2020-09)The inescapable background to teaching and studying architecture today is an unprecedented climate crisis, particularly in the context of teaching sustainability. In order to bring architectural education and practice up ... -
Work-Integrated Learning: Shaping employability skills for the future
(2021-04-30)Over the last five years the employability skills sought by business has changed. This trend will continue due to the increasing impact of automation, outsourcing and information and communication technology (ICT) in the ... -
How do L2 student moderators facilitate a peer-led discussion forum?
(2021-10)Assigning students as moderators in online discussion forums is considered to be an effective strategy; however, a review of the literature indicates that previous studies have primarily focused on instructors as facilitators. ... -
Pop the “maths anxiety” bubble: An approach to support nursing students to self-manage anxiety while studying drug calculation
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2021-12-16)This is a report on an informal action research undertaken between 2013 and 2014 to find solutions to support tertiary nursing students experiencing anxiety while studying drug calculation. The literature identifies ... -
I'll be happy and smiling all the time” - The impact of relational and safety learning for 8-12-year-old children
(2019-07)This paper evaluates the impact of Jade Speaks Up (JSU), a safety and relational learning programme run for 1300 children in years 5-8 in eight New Zealand primary and intermediate schools. This is the first year of a ...