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Tākina ko au, Tākina ko koe! Te āhuatanga o te whakataetae kapa haka
Nga mahi a Tane-rore me Te Rehia (traditional Māori performing arts) is one of the most visible aspects of Māori culture. Traditional Māori performing arts is one of the key elements seen on the marae and it marked the ...
Culture change in northern Te Wai Pounamu
In the northern South Island, the area northern Te Wai Pounamu (NTWP) is defined appropriate to a regional investigation of pre-European culture change. It is argued that the Māori sequence of this region is relevant to a ...
Pacific participation in Aotearoa/Niu Sila Netball: Body image, family, church, culture, education and physical education.
This thesis explores the netball experiences of a selection of people residing in Aotearoa/Niu Sila who have participated or continued to participate in netball. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach, it sheds a light ...
Documenting lives over time: How longitudinal documentaries provide a visual life course perspective
The term longitudinal documentary has become commonplace in film studies where it is used to describe any series of documentaries made over a long period of time; this thesis explores the origins of the word ‘longitudinal’ ...
Towards a Chinese vocabulary list for learners of Mandarin as a foreign language at tertiary level in Malaysia : a needs-based study.
This study aims to find solutions for the problems of ‘how much vocabulary’ and ‘what vocabulary’ when creating curriculum for the learning of Mandarin as a Foreign Language (hereafter MFL). Both the HSK Vocabulary List ...
Brazilian National Identity in the Lyrics of Chico Buarque
Music has a fundamental role in the popular culture of contemporary Brazil. Not only does music represent Brazilian national cultural identity, or brasilidade, to the international community, it is also a vehicle for ...
Previously On Battlestar Galactica: Narrative Innovation in Contemporary American Science Fiction Television
From the 1980s to the present, the American television industry has undergone many significant industrial and technological shifts which have enabled fundamental changes to the production and distribution of primetime ...
The Mechanics of World Music: Examining World Music through a framework of Intentional Hybridity
World music is an ambiguous term that defies singular definition, with focus generally placed on the ethnicity and geo-cultural origins of the musicians and the music, rather than the textural or mechanical constructs of ...
What can secondary student teachers learn from a day in a primary school? The impact of a primary field observation in secondary initial teacher education
This research examined the effects of a 1-day observation in a primary school for the 2012 (n = 68) and 2013 (n = 65) cohorts of secondary initial teacher education (ITE) students in New Zealand. Reflective journal entries ...
Natural Hazard Planning: The Contribution of Cook Island Maori traditional knowledge
Cook Island Maori traditional knowledge is a highly intellectual body of knowledge that has contributed to the ability of Cook Island Maori to forecast impending weather and natural hazard events. Cook Island Maori traditional ...