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He manu hou ahau, he pī ka rere: The transition of Māori language immersion students to the University of Otago

Leoni, Gianna (University of Otago, 2012)
The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the transitional experiences of graduates from Māori language immersion secondary schools to tertiary education. The thesis will show how Māori language immersion ...
Affect and Identity: The Mathematical Journeys of Adolescents

Ingram, Naomi (University of Otago, 2011)
This research captured the mathematical journeys of 31 New Zealand students over two years of their adolescence. The research framework combined a conceptualisation of identities with the notion in the affective domain of ...
Examination of an Assessment-Informed Instructional Consultation Process Implemented with Junior Primary School Teachers

Thurlow, Jane (University of Otago, 2010)
Literacy is an enabler within our society (Stanovich, 2000). The majority New Zealand (NZ) children have and are responding favourably to current teaching methods (Wilkinson, 1998). Those who continue to struggle may ...
The Art of Peace: Performative and Arts Based Peace Practices in Contemporary Fiji

Clery, Tui Nicola (University of Otago, 2013)
This thesis seeks to address the relative absence of literature about grounded and localised approaches to peacebuilding in contemporary Fiji. It documents how and why Fiji artists, activists and Civil Society Organisations ...
Code Switching in the Malaysian ESL Classroom

Selamat, Joanna Tiffany (University of Otago, 2014)
This study explores the perceptions and beliefs of teachers and students regarding the practice of code switching in Malaysian ESL classrooms. It also examines the roles and functions of code switching in the classroom. ...
A pragmatic tutorial dialogue system: design, implementation and evaluation in a health sciences domain

McDonald, Jennifer Anne (University of Otago, 2014)
In large undergraduate classes, it is time-consuming, costly and seldom practical for the teacher to provide individualised feedback to students on their written responses to questions. A request for advice in relation ...
Girls Identity and Learning in Outdoor Education

McNatty, Shannon (University of Otago, 2014)
This thesis examines the residential outdoor education programme of New Zealand’s St Cuthbert’s College, a private girls’ school, in which year 10 girls (14 years old) live at the remote Kahunui campus for 28 days. The ...
Funnily Serious: Using Comedy to Communicate Science

Scott, Andrew Neil (University of Otago, 2012)
The public perception of science and its practitioners is one of stoic seriousness or of laughable arcana. But science and humour have had a long (if marginalised) history together, from in-jokes and jocular critiques ...
Māori Knowledge in Mainstream Secondary Schools: Issues of Responsibility, Engagement and Validation

McIntyre, Kathryn Joy (University of Otago, 2011)
Māori pupils' rate of academic success is far lower than their Pākehā (New Zealanders of predominantly European descent) counterparts. Schools' active engagement with Māori knowledge has been shown to improve the social, ...
Undergraduate student perceptions of a career in the tourism and hospitality industry in New Zealand

Bamford, Kirsten (University of Otago, 2012)
As the highest economic earner the tourism and hospitality industry in New Zealand is often plagued by negative employment characteristics. Previous research has found that tertiary students, seen as the next cohort of ...