Faculty of Culture and Society
The Faculty of Culture and Society is comprised of the School of Hospitality and Tourism, the School of Education, the School of Language and Culture and the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, as well as three research institutes:
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Impact of School-Based Support on Educational Outcomes of Teen-Mothers: Evidence From Linked Administrative Data
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Teen Parent Units (TPUs) provide education and support for high school students who are pregnant or parents in New Zealand. They provide childcare, links to health and other social services, guidance and mentoring. Because ... -
Trust Predicts Compliance to COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence From Ten Countries Using Big Data
(Quaderni Del Dipartimento, 2021)Previous evidence indicates that trust is an important correlate of compliance with Covid-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over ... -
The Impact of Exogenous Shocks on National Wellbeing. New Zealanders’ Reaction to COVID-19
(Springer, 2021)In this paper, we explore the response of an aggregate measure of subjective wellbeing to the arrival and passage of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small, geographically separate economy in the South Pacific. Studies of national ... -
Understanding Domestic Tourists to Support COVID-19 Recovery Strategies – The Case of Aotearoa New Zealand
(UCSI University (Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management) and Sarawak Research Society, Supported by Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture (MTAC) Sarawak and RCE (Regional Centre of Expertise) Kuching, 2021)With international tourism at a standstill and domestic tourism being decisive in post-COVID-19 recovery strategies, tourism destinations need to turn their lenses more inwardly again. Pre-COVID-19 destination marketing ... -
Developing Marine Ecotourism for a Sustainable Blue Economy: A Literature Review
(Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge., 2021)Overview Before Covid-19, tourism contributed 9.8% GDP, $40.9 billion and 14.4% national employment (StatsNZ, 2019). While Covid-19 has diminished the country’s most valuable export sector (tourism), it is also a catalyst ... -
The Ugly Truth About Social Welfare Payments and Households' Subjective Well-being
(Global Labor Organization, 2021)Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate ... -
Renewing Steiner Teacher Education: A Conversation With Florian Osswald
(Other Business, 2021)This article contains an interview between the author and Florian Osswald, one of the co-leaders of the Steiner education movement worldwide, held at the end of the four-day Asian Steiner Teacher Educators’ Conference in ... -
An Integrative Review on the Research on the Impact of Teacher Inquiry on Student Achievement
(The New Zealand Annual Review of Education Te Arotake a Tau o Te Ao o te Matauranga i Aotearoa (NZAROE), Department of Education, Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)This review investigated the impact of teacher inquiry on student achievement and identified characteristics of effective inquiry. We first explore the theoretical underpinning inquiry research and then discuss studies ... -
Education for Freedom for All? The Relevance of Contemporary Theory to Steiner Education
(Research on Steiner Education (RoSE), 2021)This article considers three current approaches to education for social justice: culturally responsive pedagogy, critical pedagogy and decolonisation. It is informed by the work of Gloria Ladson-Billings, Paulo Freire, ... -
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-being Data From Twitter. Evidence From Ten Countries
(EconStor - Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2021)In this article we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being ... -
Fine-dining in Prisons: Online Tripadvisor Reviews of The Clink Training Restaurants
(Elsevier, 2021)This study evaluated customer reviews about The Clink restaurants to understand how they are rated and what experience is gained by fine dining in a prison. The Clink Charity runs training restaurants in four U.K. prisons ... -
To Dine, or Not to Dine on a Cruise Ship in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Tripartite Approach Towards an Understanding of Behavioral Intentions Among Female Passengers
(MDPI AG, 2021)Given that cruise line companies are rushing to restart their operations with modified dining services, the aim of this research is to establish a conceptual framework that precisely outlines female passengers’ behavioral ... -
Wildlife Tourism Resources Development: A Case Study of Beijing Wildlife Park
(Faculty of Management Studies, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2021)In this era of mass tourism, and to create social and financial benefits, it is useful to clarify the positive and negative aspects of animal tourism resources. Following the principles of environmental protection, public ... -
Preschoolers' and Adults' Animism Tendencies Toward a Humanoid Robot
(Elsevier, 2021)This study examined whether three- and five-year-old children and adults changed their perceptions of a robot after a naturalistic interaction with it. We examined whether participants exhibited animism errors (i.e., ... -
Flight, Climate Change, and Dangerous Times for Art and Pedagogy
(Brill, 2020)In his last book Chaosmosis, Felix Guattari (1995, p. 129) argues that both “intellectuals and artists have got nothing to teach anyone,” and that they produce “toolkits composed of concepts, percepts and affects, which ... -
Lived Spirituality: Exploring the Richness of Inner Work
(2020)This article investigates and documents inner processes which underlie and support my professional life – a livingeduational- theory based on what I term 'lived spirituality'. Influenced strongly by the work of Rudolf ... -
Chinese Tourists’ Attitude Towards Road Safety in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Road safety is a global issue that has been given more attention in many countries. In tourist destinations, a high rate of car accidents could negatively influence the market image in tourism. Self-drive tourism has become ... -
Beyond Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning: An Attempt with SVM
(The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020)A big challenge in continual learning is avoiding catastrophically forgetting previously learned tasks. The possibility of improving existing knowledge whilst integrating new information has been much less explored. In ...