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Labour turnover in a New Zealand hotel company: the Gordian Knot? Initial results from a decade of exit interviews
(Elsevier Ltd, 2011)This paper presents findings from the data analysis of formal exit interviews conducted in New Zealand’s largest hotel brand. The data is from 24 hotels, covering all regions of New Zealand and provides comparable data ... -
Language shift and host society attitudes: Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965
(Sage Publishers, 2012)Language shift and host society attitudes - Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965 Abstract A study published in 2010 reported on past and current language use of a group of older Dutch migrants ... -
A Languages Strategy for Auckland: Why and What Are The Issues?
(Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, 2015)No abstract. -
The Leadership-as-practice (L-A-P) Movement: Transforming Education Research Through Applying an Emerging Frontier to Teacher Collaborative Inquiry Research
(Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2016)A new frontier of understanding leadership is emerging in the broad field of leadership studies known as the leadership-as-practice movement. Rather than assume leadership resides in the specific behaviours and traits of ... -
Leading in Collaborative, Complex Education Systems
(Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2015)No abstract. -
Learning From the 1991 Law Exams Incident
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)This article revisits a moment in the recent history of education in Aotearoa New Zealand when te reo Māori as a language of the university came under intense scrutiny. The original incident took place in 1991 in Hamilton, ... -
Level of Prior Education as a Predictor of Academic Performance in the Bio Science Papers
(Crimson Publishers, 2019)Background: The cohort of students enrolled in the bio science papers at the Bachelor of Health Science (Oral Health) programme reflects a structural diversity in that it includes students of differing levels of prior ... -
Lived Spirituality: Exploring the Richness of Inner Work
(2020)This article investigates and documents inner processes which underlie and support my professional life – a livingeduational- theory based on what I term 'lived spirituality'. Influenced strongly by the work of Rudolf ... -
Locating my own teaching of gender in early childhood education within the wider discourse of feminism and post-structuralist theory
(Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2012)Much has been written on teaching student teachers from a feminist poststructuralist pedagogy (Middleton 1993, Taguchi 2005, Robinson & Diaz, 2006 and Lather,1991) and through the teaching of feminist and poststructuralist ... -
Lockdown Ibuism: Experiences of Indonesian migrant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Lost in Space: Physically, Virtually, and Pedagogically
(Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), 2013)A wide range of literature reveals the pervasive and directing influence that physical and virtual spaces and the role of place have on teaching practice, and the need to better understand these influences. The experiences ... -
Lost in translation: aligning strategies for research
(OECD Publishing, 2011)In New Zealand, the funding of higher education research has been influenced by revised policy-driven imperatives. Amidst the institutional reactions to newer criteria for governmental funding, individual academics are ... -
Lost in Translation: Western Representations of Māori Knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)We recently attended a conference at which a non-Māori presenter, drawing on a particular metaphor already established by Māori writers, related Māori natural world features to a research method. The presentation was useful ... -
Love of teaching: reflections of what it means to be an effective Pasifika ECE lecturer
(AUT University, 2013)This paper is based on my reflections of an effective Pasifika Early Childhood Education (ECE) lecturer (as a result of my own personal journey and insights, e.g. my career change from that of a Learning Development Lecturer) ... -
Making a case for Pasifika principals in Aotearoa New Zealand schools: a Samoan perspective
(Hawaii International Conference on Education, 2014)Why are there so few Pasifika teachers in Principals positions in New Zealand Schools? Are Pasifika teachers actively being encouraged to aspire to leadership roles? Do those who are identified as leaders early nurtured, ... -
Making the implicit explicit: pragmatics in the classroom
(AUT University, 2010)Successful communication in a second language requires knowledge of its socio-pragmatic norms (Eslami-Rasekh, 2005), and explicit instruction can be of value to second language learners (Kasper & Roever, 2004). Various ... -
Making the implicit explicit: raising pragmatic awareness in trainee interpreters, using semi-authentic spontaneous discourse samples
(TESOL, 2012)Following the recent interest in the teaching of pragmatics and the recognition of its importance for both cross-cultural communication and new speakers of an additional language, the authors carried out an action research ... -
Margarine sculptures: historical oddity or an awesome way of adding value to the customer dining experience?
(Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), 2013)Margarine sculptures have a long and illustrious culinary history, yet in changing times they are rarely seen in modern hotel and restaurant settings. This paper considers the historical and cultural significance of margarine ...