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'French adds to its owner’s culture and general intelligence’. The politics of subject languages in New Zealand schools: the first fifty years
(University College London, 2015)In publicly monolingual, English dominant countries like New Zealand, why, how, when, where, which and for whom subject languages are taught in schools, are important questions. Unfortunately these questions rarely receive ... -
From hospitality work to hospitable working: a hotel case study on increasing productivity and decreasing staff turnover
(Griffith University, 2008)This paper presents the case study of the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor, a New Zealand hotel that has reduced staff turnover through focusing on two particular drivers of productivity - Creating a Productive Workplace ... -
From Pisa to Santander: a statement on children’s growth and wellbeing
(Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health (CRES), University of Malta, 2014)No abstract. -
From self-employed hospitality entrepreneur to paid employee: the motivational factors behind the transition
(Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), 2013)The New Zealand hospitality industry is characterised by a high rate of business start-ups and closures, especially in small and medium enterprises (Inland Revenue Department, 2011). One reason for this is that many ... -
From teacher preparation to classroom practice: perceptions of novice Emirati teachers
(Natural Sciences Publishing, 2013)The teacher-training college where this research took place prepares Emirati primary school teachers to teach the subjects of English, Mathematics and Science through the medium of English. The college courses taught have ... -
Full of sound and fury signifying nothing: the implementation of ambush marketing legislation
(AUT University, 2010)One of the conditions for hosting mega-events, such as the Olympics, World Cup Football and the Rugby World Cup, is that the host country develop and implement event-specific legislation to support efforts to reduce the ... -
Gender and Diversity in Tourism
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Gender in Marketing
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Gender Research in Hospitality and Tourism Management: Time to Change the Guard
(Emerald, 2020)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the problem with how gender is positioned in hospitality and tourism management studies. It recommends critical theories to investigate how gender is researched in the ... -
Georgina Tuari Stewart on Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada
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Getting on in hospitality: a preview
(University of Waikato, 2009)Although ageism is an acknowledged form of discrimination in employment (Snape & Redman, 2003; Taylor & Walker, 1998), compared to other discriminatory behaviours such as racism and sexism, relatively little research has ... -
Global India and cultural space in Auckland’s performance scene
(Graduate School of Management, the University of Auckland, 2013)This paper presents recent ethnographic research that focuses on young, educated recent migrants from India who are creating cultural space through live performance events, Their emerging voices challenge the establish ... -
The globalisation of Steiner education: some considerations
(Research on Steiner Education (RoSE), 2015)Steiner early childhood centres and schools span the globe and are attended by thousands of children in contexts and settings far removed from that of the first school in Southern Germany. This article attempts to assess ... -
Globalised Language and Culture Policy Borrowing for Aotearoa: Colonisation, History and Language Power
(Scandanavian University Press, 2022)This chapter examines the introduction of intercultural competency into the New Zealand learning languages curriculum released in 2007 and based largely on the work of the Council of Europe. An important question is raised ... -
Good Morning Vietnam
The following is a reflection from two Auckland University of Technology (AUT) academics seconded as visiting professors to teach events and human resource management at a Vietnamese university. As this may be an ongoing ... -
Group assessments: dilemmas facing lecturers in multicultural tertiary classrooms
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)'Group is good, and group is good for curing all social ills' was the cynical observation of one of the lecturers in this study. Her comment reflects the uneasiness of lecturers at tertiary institutions with the notion ... -
The Growth of ‘Botos Feeding Tourism’, a New Tourism Industry Based on the Boto (Amazon River Dolphin) Inia Geoffrensis in the Amazonas State, Brazil
(Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 2012)The Amazon’s reputation and ability to draw tourists is strongly associated with the natural environment and with tourist’s ability to sight and interact with iconic animals. In Brazil, four cases of aggregations of wild ... -
The ‘Hau’ of Research: Mauss Meets Kaupapa Māori
(Indiana University, 2017)‘The Gift’ is the English title of a small book first published in French in 1925 by sociologist Marcel Mauss, which catalyzed an ongoing debate linked to a wide range of scholarship. Mauss’s gift theory included the Māori ... -
He iti, he pounamu: The Significance of Doctoral Theses Written in Te Reo Māori
(Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, 2019)This article illuminates the embryonic academic practice of writing doctoral theses in te reo Mäori, storying the experiences of graduates, supervisors, examiners and senior managers involved in this pathway. In keeping ...