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Re-envisioning the status quo: Developing sustainable approaches to outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand
We live in a world characterised by significant environmental degradation issues, increasing social inequality, and economic uncertainty. These pressing issues compel an active response from all sectors of our society to ...
(Re) Conceptualising Dance: Moving towards embodying environment from Japan to Aotearoa
This study is about the relationship between body, landscape, and dance through the researcher’s experiences of learning a Japanese movement approach known as Body Weather (BW) in rural Japan in 2007, and her current dance ...
Determinants of Cardiovascular Health in Breast Cancer Survivors Based on Physical Activity Status
While the worldwide incidence of breast cancer is high, the New Zealand 5-year survival rate is encouraging at 86% which can be attributed to improvements in screening programmes and technological advances in chemotherapy ...
Mahinga kai- He tāngata. Mahinga kaitiaki- He mauri.
Mahinga kai (food gathering sites and practices) emerged at the beginning of the creation narratives when the Māori world was first formed and atua (deity, Gods) roamed upon the face of the land. Mahinga kai sites are ...
Boys go bush: Lived solo experiences at Tihoi Venture School
Boys Go Bush elucidates the lived experiences of adolescent males encountering a two-day, two-night solitary experience (solo) in the New Zealand bush. A hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry framework (van Manen, 1997) was ...
Effects of cold and clothing on metabolism in female cyclists
Research investigating substrate metabolism during exercise with female participants is limited, especially regarding effects of cold stress. The aims of this study were to determine whether exercising in cold ambient ...
Transport to School Habits, Physical Activity and Weight Status in Adolescents
Background: Active transport (AT) to school is a means for adolescents to increase the amount of daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and can help them achieve physical activity (PA) guidelines. This study ...
Guilt, Women, and Exercise
In this thesis I explore exercise-related guilt experienced by mid-age women. While guilt occupies a prominent place in women’s narratives about exercise, it has been largely overlooked in sociocultural research on health, ...
“It Didn’t Exactly Make Me Feel Grand”: Students with Physical Disabilities’ Experiences of Secondary School Physical Education
Physical Education has long been recognised as the domain of the physically ‘able’ (Barton 1993, 2009). As a result, many students with physical disabilities who do not display the socially constructed abilities, movements ...
Follow the Leader The Role of Local and Global Visual Information for Keeping Distance in Interpersonal Coordination
Despite many years of research into human movement, how humans deal with information in dynamical situations is still subject to debate. The current research programme examined an individual’s ability to coordinate their ...