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Waldorf: An Education of its Time?
(International Forum of Waldorf/Steiner Education, 2017)To what degree is Waldorf education of its time? Is it contemporary? These questions are put forward by Neil Boland, senior lecturer at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He looks towards possible futures ... -
Warm Workplace Relationships: How to Retain Hospitality Employees
This article addresses the significance of workplace social connections for hospitality workers. When examining high turnover in hospitality, the focus is generally negative, such as shift work and low pay [1]. Surprisingly, ... -
What Can Indigenous Feminist Knowledge and Practices Bring to “indigenizing” the Academy?
(Indiana University Press, 2019)More than a decade has passed since North American Indigenous scholars began a public dialogue on how we might “Indigenize the academy.” Discussions around how to “Indigenize” and whether it’s possible to “decolonize” the ... -
What Does ‘Indigenous’ Mean, for Me?
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What for the Future, From Learning the Past?
Important curriculum development work has progressed since the 2019 announcement that Aotearoa New Zealand histories would become compulsory learning across all schools. Much effort has gone into considering how learning ... -
What is a New Zealand Journal of Educational Research for?
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What Is Philosophy for Indigenous People, in Relation to Education?
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What Needs to Happen for School Autonomy to Be Mobilised to Create More Equitable Public Schools and Systems of Education?
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, ... -
What's More Kiwi Than a Buzzy Bee? An Exploration of Kiwi Identity and Kiwiana
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What’s Be Happen? A Dialogic Approach to the Analysis of Herbs’ New Zealand Reggae Lyrics
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2015)This paper extends aspects of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic relations in the discourse of novels to popular song lyrics. Involving three levels of analysis, it examines the well known New Zealand band Herbs’ ... -
What’s Be Happen? The discourse of reggae lyrics thirty years on
(University of Otago, 2012)This article discusses What’s Be Happen?, New Zealand’s first reggae album, released by the band Herbs in July 1981. The lyrics and adopted ‘message music’ constitute a nexus that connects, marks and speaks of salient ... -
Where Is the Meaning We Have Lost in Hospitality? Turning the Light on the Values We Live and Work By
(Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (CHRiE), 2015)Tourism and hospitality have a rich tradition of values that emphasise care for individuals, a concern for community, and responsibility for society. However, these complex social interactions and traditional values are ... -
Whose Diwali is it? The case of the Indian Community and Auckland City Council
(School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This paper interrogates the ways that governmental agendas may affect the representation and expression of cultural identity. I trace factors that have transformed the production of Diwali, in Auckland, New Zealand. In ... -
Wildlife Tourism Resources Development: A Case Study of Beijing Wildlife Park
(Faculty of Management Studies, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2021)In this era of mass tourism, and to create social and financial benefits, it is useful to clarify the positive and negative aspects of animal tourism resources. Following the principles of environmental protection, public ... -
Willingness to Communicate in English As a Second Language As a Stable Trait or Context-influenced Variable: Case Studies of Iranian Migrants to New Zealand
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013)Whether Willingness to Communicate (WTC) is a permanent trait or is modified by situational context has previously been investigated in various studies (e.g. Cao & Philp, 2006; Kang, 2005; MacIntyre & Legatto, 2011). ... -
Word Weapons? Letters to Editors
This short commentary argues that academic letters to editors on politically-contested topics must be treated with particular ethical care. The interface between science and Māori/Indigenous knowledge is one such topic, ... -
Work-life balance: comparative international perspectives from Hospitality workers
(University of South Australia/Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), 2011)The issue of work life balance (WLB) has attracted the attention of researchers for some time now, due mainly to the impact on personal and professional lives as well as the organisation's productivity. In the 24/7 labour ... -
Working Towards the Mainstreaming of Languages and Cultures in National Curricula: Norway and Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, 2015)In this symposium we bring together colleagues from Norway and Aotearoa/NZ to consider the place of languages and cultures within our respective national curricula. We will examine what still needs to be achieved in each ... -
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-being Data From Twitter. Evidence From Ten Countries
(EconStor - Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2021)In this article we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being ...