Browsing Faculty of Culture and Society by Title
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Pacific Languages, Neoliberalism and Language Education Policy
(Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, 2015)Since 1984 and the election of a fourth Labour Government, New Zealand has been characterised as one of the most neoliberal countries in the world. Neoliberal theory frames most policy, including educational language policy. ... -
Pasifika youth in South Auckland: family, community, gangs, culture, leadership and the future
(The Families Commission, 2009)Pasifika youth make a significant impact on the demographic profile of South Auckland and are a major focus of the many projections regarding population, employment and education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The place of family ... -
Passion: commitment to the kaupapa
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2013)No abstract. -
Pause, Breathe, Smile: a Mixed-methods Study of Student Well-being Following Participation in an Eight-week, Locally Developed Mindfulness Program in Three New Zealand Schools
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Children today face increasingly high stress levels, impacting their well-being. Schools can play a crucial role in teaching social and emotional skills; therefore there is a need to identify effective interventions. This ... -
Pedagogical decolonization: impacts of the European/Pakeha society on the education of Tongan people in Aotearoa, New Zealand
(SAGE, 2008)This article is an invitation to engage critically in the discussion of indigenous languages and cultures and the implications for pedagogical decolonization. Among the isses raised are questions of the impacts of the ... -
"People who need people... are the luckiest people in the world." Views of "career" by Maori
(AUT University, 2011)No abstract. -
Personality or skill? The differing expectations of hospitality managers and students
(AUT University, 2010)This paper examines hospitality managers and students assumptions about the preferred attributes of hospitality employees. Using a quantitative approach, 74 hospitality managers and 137 students were surveyed, revealing a ... -
Perspectives of Emirati women in higher education
(Contemporary Research Center, 2014)United Arab Emirates (UAE) women have enthusiastically taken advantage of the educational opportunities available for all after the discovery of oil. Their access to higher education has expanded considerably, opening new ... -
Play and the professional early childhood teacher: a personal reflection
(Childforum, 2014)This article draws together some reflections on play and educationalisation in the historic context of the contemporary professionalism of early childhood. Looking historically, I suggest that both play and education are ... -
Pondering a curriculum of inquiry into wisdom
(School of Education, AUT University, 2012)No abstract. -
Postdigital Dialogue
(Elsevier, 2018)This article is a multi-authored experimental postdigital dialogue about postdigital dialogue. Fourteen authors were invited to produce their sections, followed by two author-reviewers who examined the article as a whole. ... -
Practitioner Inquiry: Shifting the Role from Consumers to Producers of Knowledge
(Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2016)This paper emerges from the preliminary findings of study of a cohort of postgraduate initial teacher education alumni that are now practising teachers. We reflect on the potential of practitioner inquiry in positioning ... -
Preparing EAL students for the interactional demands of mainstream group assessment projects
(TESOLANZ, 2006)For NESB (Non English Speaking Background) students, the adjustments required to study successfully at a tertiary institution are varied and taxing (Myles & Cheng, 2003). Probably the greatest difficulty they encounter is ... -
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., ... -
Producing Bollywood: sustainability and the impacts on Auckland’s cultural economy
(New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI), 2014)This paper examines the variety of ways producers, as entrepreneurs; create sustainable production networks within the local as well as connecting to global Indian communities. This ethnographic research demonstrates various ... -
Production Networks: Indian Cultural Production in Aotearoa, New Zealand
(Varna University of Management, 2016)No abstract. -
Pronunciation teaching: getting stress without getting stressed
(Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA), 2014)It has been established that stress plays an important role in intelligibility, but few studies have investigated teaching stress. This paper reports on the findings of two small-scale exploratory studies which investigated ... -
Psychosocial factors impacting job dissatisfaction and burnout in New Zealand’s hospitality industry
(The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), 2015)Job dissatisfaction and burnout in the New Zealand restaurant industry: The mitigating impact of psycho-social factors This presentation examines the problem of job dissatisfaction in the NZ restaurant industry, how it is ... -
Pursuing Equal Pay: The Perspectives of Female Engineers and Potential Policy Interventions
(Sage, 2016)The gender pay gap of higher paid women working in traditionally male-dominated sectors has received less analysis in equal pay research than low paid, female-dominated and undervalued women’s work. This article explores ...