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Early welfare in Kurow, New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)This story is taken mainly from the booklet Four Shillings and Threepence (2008), produced by the Kurow Heritage & Information Centre. One of New Zealand’s first hydroelectric power stations was built on the Waitaki ... -
Engaging youth in community action research : a visual methods approach to HIV and AIDS awareness
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)Young people are among the most affected and vulnerable groups in the HIV epidemic. Targeting young people in prevention strategies requires inclusive and participatory approaches. This paper discusses a film production ... -
Epistemology and community-worker education : questioning the knowledge we value / valuing the knowledge we question
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)An appreciation and respect of how knowledge is created, classified and perpetuated is integral to community-work praxis. As community workers, ensuring that we have an epistemological foundation that guides our practice ... -
The experiences of diverse-gender tertiary students : structural discrimination and microaggressions
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)The following objectives framed the study: 1. To examine whether diverse-gender students experience discrimination related to their gender identities within tertiary settings in New Zealand and, if so, to identify the ... -
Financing community : economic development in New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)Community economic development and social enterprise are growing fast across the globe in both developed and developing countries. They are major components of a new economics arising from the failure of traditional ... -
First, revive the spirit: a paper for the community development conference 2015 – Unitec, Auckland
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)Following the 2014 General Election, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced that his government is determined to do something about those "doing it tough" - the poor. He considers poverty a long term issue and one ... -
First-year student achievement, attendance, and demography at NorthTec’s Bachelor of Applied Social Work Programme : a quantitative inquiry
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This paper reports on a quantitative inquiry into student achievement, attendance and demography and their correlations in the first year of an undergraduate social work degree at NorthTec, Whangārei, New Zealand. Data on ... -
Global warming and climate change in India : a social work perspective
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. (Mahatma Gandhi) India has ratified the Paris agreement in terms of its scope and impact, and it is probably the most far-reaching ... -
How does voluntary ethics improve research? : introducing a community research development initiative
(Unitec ePress, 2015-11-27)Until recently, community organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) have not had any avenue for ethical review of research involving human participants unless they were connected to researchers involved with health and ... -
IACD Practice Exchange India 2016. Conference report
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)Put 18 Community Development specialists on a train together in India and you have much more than a mobile party. You have the international professional development experience of a lifetime. The International Association ... -
In the context of mobility, social identity and belonging, where is ‘community’ – and why does it matter?
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)The word ‘community’ is used in many diverse situations. It may be that we move into a geographical community, buy into a product community, are part of a shared interest community, participate in a work or student community, ... -
Intergenerational transmission of communication : a Tongan perspective
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)Positive youth development requires good information to improve outcomes for service provision and delivery. This article discusses Tongan concepts that are central to effective intergenerational communication between ... -
Interview with Joan Lardner-Rivlin
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Kai Conscious Waiheke : a community development approach to food waste reduction
(Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)Organic waste, particularly food waste, has been identified as a significant hazardous component of the waste to landfill stream. The waste represents an economic loss as well as an environmental pollutant, which is digested ... -
Language and myths of poverty
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)“Poverty strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it.” G.B. Shaw, Major Barbara This paper explores the popular and political myths and language used about poverty and those who are ... -
Laudato si’ : establishing local approaches for global ecological conversion
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)In 2017 the Aotearoa Community Development Association (ACDA) and the International Association for Community Development (IACD) held a conference, Sustainably yours: Community development and a sustainably just future, ... -
Manufacture of ignorance
(Auckland District Council of Social Service, 2015-03)The book: Agnotology:The Making & Unmaking of ignorance provides valuable material about how the tobacco industry tried to undermine scientific evidence on the health impacts of smoking. It is a salutary lesson on how ... -
Newmarket Arts Trust: A brief history (2004–2021)
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)BACKGROUND The Newmarket Arts Trust (NAT) was formed in 2004. The original trustees were a mixture of people involved in the art world –– myself –– Sue Haigh (no relation to the author, local resident and active member ... -
One man's campaign in the Inner City News : Bruce Hucker (1970 - 1990)
(Sociological Association of Aotearoa/New Zealand (SAANZ), 2015)Bruce Hucker wrote a weekly article for the Inner City News between 1979 and 1990. Hucker took issue with Auckland City Council on many issues and accused the Citizens and Ratepayers group that ran council of being nothing ... -
Painting the desert pink : where place making, social cohesion and wellbeing collide
(Unitec ePress, 2015-11-27)In remote communities of western Queensland, where gatherings are rare and take the form of gymkhanas and campdrafts, women hardly take time out to invest in themselves. During droughts, the pressures are so great that ...