Knowledge, agency, and curriculum integration

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Sue McDowall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Curriculum Integration ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
Research Project

In this article I explore a challenge identified by teachers involved in a recent research project on curriculum integration. Teachers described this challenge as how to balance the need to “cover” The New Zealand Curriculum with the need to support student agency. I describe how teachers saw this challenge, and the different ways they responded to it. I end by considering how our conceptions of knowledge might contribute to the ways in which we might think about and address this challenge.

scholarly journals What do social work students think social work research is?

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Anita Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Social Work Values

In New Zealand, social work students often undertake social work research training as part of their first qualification in social work. The focus of this article is to consider what social work students think social work research is and whether they think social work research should be part of normal, everyday practice or not. Forty-three social work students from Otago University participated in a small research project during 2009 aimed at exploring their constructions of social work research. They emphasised that social work research should be compatible with social work values like empowerment and social justice, and bring about positive change of benefit of service users. 

Digitisation of Indigenous Cultural Objects: An Investigation into the Policy and Protocols for Digitised Indigenous Knowledge in selected Cultural Heritage Organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kirsten Donna Francis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
National Level ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Theoretical Finding ◽  
Digital Collection

<p>This research project investigates the digital collections from selected heritage organisations, exploring how/if the rights of indigenous peoples are being protected by policy and protocol documents on the World Wide Web. It purposively surveys selected heritage collections across Australia and New Zealand and explores digital collection policies at local and national level, investigating the extent of international pressure, socio-cultural influences, and legislative constraints. This research project uses qualitative methodology in an interpretive way, using the hermeneutic circle and method for the collation for data and analysis. The major theoretical finding of this research project is that many cultural heritage organisations attempt to bridge the gap between Anglo-American development of legislation and indigenous intellectual property rights by the inclusion of specific policy measures becoming in effect socio-cultural agents for change</p>

Gambling issues for Tongan people in Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sione Tu'itahi ◽  
Yvette Guttenbeil-Po'uhila ◽  
Jennifer Hand ◽  
Tin Htay
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Regional Public Health ◽  
Future Plans

This paper focuses on a research project on gambling issues within the Tongan community in Auckland, New Zealand that was conducted by the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS). It outlines the background and rationale for the research, progress as of the time of writing, preliminary findings, and future plans.

Specific Oral Communication Skills Desired in New Accountancy Graduates

2010 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Elizabeth Gray
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
International Research ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Research Project ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Study Offer

International research findings and anecdotal evidence alike suggest that new accountancy graduates often begin their careers with inadequate oral communication skills. However, there is a lack of well-grounded empirical data concerning precisely what accountancy employers mean by “oral communication” and what specific skills they value most highly. This article describes a research project investigating the importance of 27 oral communication skills for students intending to begin an accountancy career in New Zealand, as perceived by chartered accountancy professionals. It also examines how frequently accountancy employers are finding these desired skills in new graduates. The findings reported in this study offer important guidance concerning the oral communication skills that new graduates will find most useful in the New Zealand accountancy workplace and suggest useful directions for accountancy students internationally.

scholarly journals Principles for a future-oriented education system

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Bolstad
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Education System ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
System Change ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Educational Stakeholders

A research project commissioned by the Ministry of Education recently presented NZCER researchers with an opportunity to consider how educational research could contribute to the development of a more future-oriented learning system. Our goal was to synthesise ideas from the “21 st century learning” literature with current knowledge about practice issues and future possibilities for innovation in New Zealand education in order to distil a set of themes or principles which a wide audience of educational stakeholders might be able to engage with. While this approach and the themes we have developed are open to critique, we hope this synthesis might provide a platform for educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders in education to engage in ongoing discussion about how to develop “next practice” and achieve system change.

scholarly journals The [in]significance of New Zealand wallpaper in the 1940s

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Beth Chaney ◽  
Sophia Cogswell ◽  
Sarah Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Surface Treatments ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Wall Surface ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Centennial Exhibition

This paper draws on research into the use, imaging and recording of wallpaper in New Zealand from 1850 to 1950, conducted as part of the Martin Hill Wallpaper research project. It tests New Zealand wallpaper as an industry, a craft, and as a design activity, comparing it to other applied wall surface treatments significant to the contemporary 1940s context, aiming to contextualise the value placed on wallpaper in the modern interior. To explore the content and context of wallpaper as it was recorded in 1940s New Zealand, this paper specifically draws on the definitive contemporary exhibition; The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, and a definitive contemporary text; DE Barry Martin's Modern Decoration & Furnishing: The Complete Guide to Planning and Buying for all interiors, as sources to provide a framework within which to locate wallpaper and its perceived significance.

scholarly journals Timing of Intravenous Therapy, Venepuncture and Cannulation Education for Nurses

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bronwynne Lesley Anderson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Intravenous Therapy ◽  
District Health ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Undergraduate Study ◽  
And Training

<p>Internationally it is becoming more acceptable for nurses to carry out intravenous (IV) therapy, venepuncture and cannulation. There does not appear to be consensus about when nurses should undergo this education either nationally or internationally. The aim of this research project was to try and identify when IV therapy, venepuncture and cannulation education should take place and also to identify what different District Health Boards (DHBs) and nursing schools in New Zealand consider should be included in undergraduate nursing curricula related to IV therapy, venepuncture and cannulation. An email survey method was employed, which returned 36 responses. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse these responses. This research project has utilised an exploratory descriptive approach to examine perceptions of registered nurses, who are employed in hospitals and schools of nursing, about whether nurses in New Zealand should be prepared to administer intravenous therapy, undertake venepuncture and cannulation prior to, or following, registration. Participants were asked to share their personal beliefs, thoughts and understanding about the topic. Benner's framework of Novice to Expert was used as a theoretical framework for this study. The major findings that emerged from this study were that IV therapy should be a core component of undergraduate study and that there should be a national education and training programme. There was however, no agreement about the timing of venepuncture and cannulation education and training. The findings of this study indicated that education and competency are an issue which needs to be addressed by the different health providers and associated educators. This would lead to the development of a nationally agreed framework, with agreed standards.</p>

scholarly journals Binding Matters

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Isla Griffin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
The Body ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Darkened Room ◽  
Uniform Wall ◽  
Cadaver Studies

This visual essay introduces and critically reflects on a creative research project entitled ‘Spectra on the edge of embodiment,’ undertaken as part of my Master of Fine Art study in 2017 at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. The project was motivated by several questions and concerns: What is the being that is human? How does it interact with the space it occupies? Through a work of art, is it possible to convey to a viewer the metacognitive perceptions I have propagated in connecting to my interiority and how it interfaces with the world? The work took the form of an immersive spatial installation including multiple video projections accompanied by a sound loop. Occupying a darkened room within a gallery setting, it animated uniform wall surfaces and corner spaces. The video imagery originated from textural surfaces, detritus, fluids and other such flotsam and jetsam reminiscent of interior anatomies, compelling viewers to linger and wonder what the body might look like from the inside. Such a detailed imaginary view of the body’s interior environment stems from extensive cadaver studies that I undertook as part of my training as a physiotherapist.

scholarly journals Library instruction services for international students in New Zealand's tertiary libraries : a survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Heather M. Ward
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Tertiary Institutions

<p>This research project examines the issue of library instruction services for international students studying at New Zealand tertiary institutions. The aim of the project was to ascertain the measures that New Zealand academic librarians are taking to meet the needs of international students, and how well this compares with tertiary libraries in other countries. The data was gathered by mailed questionnaire to tertiary libraries with over 1% international student population. The findings of the survey indicate that there is a lack of awareness of the issues faced by international students and highlights the need for further research in this country.</p>

scholarly journals Healthy Pacific grandparents: a participatory action research project exploring ageing well among Pacific people in New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
El-Shadan Tautolo ◽  
Wendy Wrapson ◽  
Janis Paterson ◽  
Valerie Wright-St Clair ◽  
Stephen Neville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Pacific People
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