Kaupapa Māori, is a term that surfaced within the educational realm but its concept is one that was derived from our tupuna. It is a contested term and has become common-place but what hasn't occurred is its 'defined ...

Metaethical constructivism holds that a judgement is normatively compelling for an agent if that judgement follows from within the standpoint of the judging agent. Christine Korsgaard, a Kantian constructivist, holds that ...

This thesis examines the emergence of human rights discourse in debate over marriage equality in Aotearoa/New Zealand, focusing on four key pieces of legislation enacted between 1986 and 2013: the Homosexual Law Reform ...

This thesis presents an analytical framework for studying the evolution of museological culture in a post-colonial context and then applies that framework to the case of the Christchurch public art gallery, the Robert ...

This thesis investigates first-year students' challenges in making sense of the learning and teaching environment during their first semester at university. The aims for the research are threefold. Firstly, mapping the ...

This research analyses the important place God’s identity as the God of Israel has in the systematic theology of American Lutheran theologian Robert W. Jenson. I demonstrate that the identification of the God of Israel as ...

This study investigates the rhetorical organisation of the introduction section of English and Chinese research articles in the field of educational psychology using Swales’s (1990 & 2004) framework of move analysis. A ...

Skeletal remains of the prehistoric New Zealand dog, the kuri, are frequently recovered from archaeological sites. Despite their relative ubiquity only one major study, and the last for twenty five years, has been conducted. ...

This research seeks to assess Djebar’s place in the Arabic literature and to underline the aspects of Sufism relevant to her discourse on the otherness of an Algerian war. Her work conveys important aspects of Sufi aesthetics. ...

In this Master Thesis, my goal was to analyze a few war representations in 20th Century French literature and its complex functions. Therefore I have chosen three different genres, i.e. the historical novel, poetry and the ...