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Tau-utuutu: The development of a LIVING VISION for the Unitec School of Architecture Te Kura Hoahoanga
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)Late in 2019 a small group of Pākehā staff at Unitec School of Architecture organised an initiative to review the course structure after relocating to a different building on campus. Gifted a name, Tau-utuutu, by Kaihautū ... -
Auranga Abodo Seating Pavilion
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)Sustainability within the built environment has become a significant issue with the design and fabrication of architecture. Construction waste is just one of many issues that need to be resolved. To tackle this problem, ... -
Vocational education and training reform in Aotearoa New Zealand: The value of educators and education in a new VET environment
(New Zealand Council for Educational Research + Victoria University of Wellington, 2022-11-24)NOTE: Issue Vol. 27 (2021): New Zealand Annual Review of Education -- Updated on 2022-11-24. The Education and Training Act 2020 provides an opportunity to transform the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system ... -
Growing kaupapa Māori research capabilities and confidence through whanaungatanga as research mentorship
(Unitec ePress, 2022-09-28)The Ngā Wai a Te Tūī – Hiringa Hauora Summer Research Mentorship is a kaupapa Māori collaboration to increase hauora Māori (Māori wellbeing) research capacity. The idea of research internships is not new, nor is a focus ... -
Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand
(Frontiers, 2022-09-12)This paper provides insight into the evolution of a project designed to address longstanding adult attitudes and behavioural issues in junior and youth sport in New Zealand. The project was funded by Sport New Zealand ... -
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 ... -
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 upper class Māori
(Tertiary Education Union (TEU), 2022)[...] the assumption that Māori are primarily interested in trade or apprenticeship training conforms to old ideas about the kinds of talents, abilities, and interests of Māori. Such a view undermines the so-called ‘progress’ ... -
I wear my pride upon my skin: Becoming more of who I am
(Tertiary Education Union (TEU), 2022)INTRODUCTION Tua - beyond. Kiri – skin. Combined, tuakiri is a Māori (Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand) term for identity or that which lies beyond the skin. So, what if your skin does not match the phenotype ... -
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 ... -
Formative vs summative quizzes as regular feedback on Moodle in computer science courses: Which do students prefer?
(Unitec ePress, 2021-11-18)Deferred feedback on summative assessments can demotivate students and affect their overall learning performance, and it can change their study routines. The aim of this study is to compare and analyse students’ perceptions ... -
Puni Reo Poitarawhiti: Playing in te reo Māori
(Otago Polytechnic, 2021-11)In May 2018, the inaugural Puni Reo Poitarawhiti was held at Netball Waitäkere, West Auckland. The first Mäori language-only netball tournament of its kind, Puni Reo Poitarawhiti (PRP) was open to all schools (kura kaupapa ... -
The legitimisation of street art in visual arts education: Exploring the perspectives of five artists in New Zealand
(Education University of Hong Kong, 2021-09)Over the past decade, the phenomena known as ‘street art’ has flourished in the art world and become a prominent international art movement. This article extrapolates the fin dings from Hung’s PhD thesis from 2020, Hitting ... -
Face-to-face delivery this week; online the next: a reflection
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-08-16)PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the effects of online learning on student engagement as a result of a shift from face-to-face to online learning during the COVID-19 lockdown in New Zealand. DESIG ... -
Asynchronous instructional videos during COVID-19 emergency remote teaching: Student experiences within a New Zealand ITP
(Unitec ePress, 2021-08-02)The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for tertiary education institutions worldwide. The crisis placed enormous pressure on educational institutions as they were required to pivot suddenly to teaching fully ... -
Walking backwards into the future: Prophecy as an approach for embedding Indigenous values in tertiary education
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021-06-23)Indigenous peoples understand time differently to Pākehā (Rangiwai, 2021a). Mahuika (2010) maintains that the notion of walking backwards into the future is a common one for Māori and other people of the Pacific. Roberts ... -
Fostering group autonomy through collaborative learning in an online environment
(Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS), Chiba, Japan, 2021-03)Learner autonomy is recognised as being associated with effective and successful learning. Whilst significant scholarship has focused on individual learner autonomy, a review of the literature indicates that the interdependence ... -
An agent for change : a legacy of dance education in Aotearoa
(University of Waikato, 2021-01-21)Thirty-one years on from the founding of the National Diploma of Contemporary Dance (which is currently the Unitec Bachelor of Contemporary Dance—School of Performing and Screen Arts) this reflection celebrates the legacy ... -
E-learning and social media: Using Facebook to create an online community among applied social practice postgraduate students during a COVID-19 lockdown
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This paper will discuss the use of Facebook as a means for creating an online community to support e-learning among applied social practice postgraduate students in the School of Healthcare and Social Practice at Unitec ... -
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 ...
