Browsing Faculty of Culture and Society by Title
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Death by hospitality: beyond the call of duty
(AUT University, 2009)Hospitality staff are often very dedicated to their work, protecting guests’ privacy even when circumstances are suspicious, and treating their wants and needs as paramount. In November 2008, several hotel staff were killed ... -
Destinations: tourists’ perspectives from New Zealand
(Elsevier, 2013)Although tourists are frequently cited as the central focus of much destination management activity little is known about how they regard destination management. Through a series of focus groups with guests at youth hostels ... -
Developing a Methodology for Public Engagement With Critical Research
(SAGE Publications, 2017)In this article we argue that a refined understanding of ‘public’ and ‘public engagement’ can help researchers who produce critical research make better decisions towards achieving policy influence. We acknowledge the ... -
Developing an English language/literacy course for adult deaf learners: insights from the chalk-face
(AUT UniversityCLESOL, 2005)This paper offers insights into the teaching of literacy / English language to adult learners who are severely and profoundly deaf. The paper builds on an earlier study (Denny 2002), which documents the inclusion of Deaf ... -
Developing employment relations teaching in New Zealand
(University of South Australia: Division of Arts, Education & Social Science, 2006)Recent changes in New Zealand’s employment relations framework has made the topic vital for many students but its multi-disciplinary foundation and its particular historical and cultural setting have proved difficult for ... -
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 Development of Steiner / Waldorf Education: Looking Through the Lens of Time
(Research on Steiner Education (RoSE), 2022)Steiner Waldorf education has undergone many developments since it was first introduced in Stuttgart in 1919. Some of these have been the result of pedagogical experience, others in response to outer requirements, while ... -
Digital identity: are students' views regarding digital representation of 'self' gendered?
(ePortfolios Australia, 2013)Through the medium of a showcase eportfolio, the owner creates and expresses a digital ‘self’ for an external, virtual audience. As teacher education graduates realize the value of creating eportfolio views for prospective ... -
Discourse analysis of popular song lyrics
(AUT University, 2011)This paper outlines a thesis that involves a three-tier approach to the discourse analysis of historically and culturally significant song lyrics in the New Zealand album Whats’ Be Happen? (Herbs, 1981). The study is framed ... -
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Electronics, Coin-operated Relic Boxes and Techno-animist Shrines
(The MIT Press, 2021)The author uses creative practice and DIY electronics as the vehicle for a practice-led inquiry into the similarities between techno-animism and material agency. Combining technology with aspects of magic and religion, ... -
DiY (Do-it-Yourself) pedagogy: A future-less orientation to education
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)A future-less orientation, as defined in this article, explores approaches to education within the context of precarious, shifting, labour markets and the uncertain future of employment trends. A future-less orientation ... -
Domestic tourism in New Zealand: the Kiwi family holiday
(Association of Pacific Studies, 2010)In New Zealand, 56 % of all tourism earnings come from domestic tourism (Ministry of Tourism, 2009), yet the attention by the government is primarily directed towards international tourism. In fact, Interactive Travellers, ... -
“Don't tell me, show me!” Rethinking scholarship in the age of the video journal
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)No abstract. -
Early Childhood Education Policy Pathways: A Learning Story
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Early signs of language shifting among recent Chinese immigrants in New Zealand
(AUT University, 2008)Recently, learning Chinese as foreign language (CFL) is becoming more and more popular around the world. However, promoting Mandarin among tens of millions of overseas Chinese has not been given enough attention. Research ... -
Eating on the Fringe: Influences on Organic Food Consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2016)Organic food is defined by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (2009) as food grown and processed without chemicals, fertilisers or genetically modified organisms, using sustainable farming methods such as crop rotation ... -
Editorial: social class and inequality in New Zealand and Overseas: introduction to special issue
(New Zealand Sociology, 2013)No abstract. -
Editorial: Teaching As Inquiry–mandated Requirement or Critical Disposition?
(AUT University, 2016)No abstract. -
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, ... -
Educational Makerspaces: Disruptive, Educative or Neither?
(AUT University, 2017)Makerspaces are now common in schools. This idea, which originated outside education, is being advocated as a way to improve student engagement in learning and/or to foster creativity and/or innovation. It is also linked ...