Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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K Girl Vacant: Ethnic Identity Manufactured
(Auckland University of Technology, 2006)K GIRL VACANT is an exploration of the nature of culture, identity, and ethnicity. The project sets out to create a virtual ethnic entity and to develop a set of visual associations operating as signs of a proto-ethnic ... -
Ka tipu mai nga taiohi Māori: a study of taiohi Māori leaving care in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)The main purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the problems for young Māori people who have transitioned out of foster care at some stage in their lives. The study has involved interviews with eight Māori care ... -
A Kaiako Perspective of Inquiry-based Learning in a Wānanga Setting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Wānanga are self-determined places of learning and discovery. They are an indigenous educational provider trying to establish their own identity and to be consequential to Māori education and for all people of Aotearoa New ... -
Kaitiakitanga: Ki Runga Ki Raro
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Nga Whenua: Maori ki tona ake ao Landscape: Documenting and developing a Maori World View The kaupapa of this project is to reconsider landscape from a Maori worldview. This project seeks to unveil nga whenua through the ... -
Kapa Kōrero - Te Reo i Waho i te Akoranga
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)He mātaitanga te rangahau nei o te rōpū e kīia nei ko Kapa Kōrero, he rōpū ā-hapori tēnei kia tautoko i te whakaoranga o te reo Māori. I whakatūria te rōpū nei e ētahi tauira pakeke o te reo i a rātou i te whare wānanga ... -
Karanga Mai Karanga Mai: An Exploration of Photographic Sovereignty
(Auckland University of Technology, 2006)Since the advent of the Kodak Instamatic, photography has become increasingly disposable and lost archival qualities have been lost. During that time, Maori have revitalised their culture resulting in a new generation who ... -
Kaupapa Māori Approaches to Trauma Informed Care
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Health and social service providers within Aotearoa New Zealand have struggled to meet the needs and aspirations of tāngata whenua. Colonisation and its impact on tāngata whenua have been at the root of intergenerational, ... -
Kawea mai te wā o mua, hei konei, hei āpōpō Bring the past to the present for the future
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This project examines how composing contemporary waiata (song) both musically and lyrically, provides a vehicle to explore and express cultural identity. The expression of cultural identity relates to the composer and her ... -
Keeping birth normal: midwives experiences in a secondary care setting: a qualitative study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)It has been said that within a secondary care setting, surrounded by medical influences, it is difficult for midwives to keep birth normal. This qualitative study has been conducted to answer the question: "What are midwives' ... -
The Key Emerging Concepts of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)In a world where change is the only constant, the perpetual challenge for educators is to provide an education for our students that will gift them with the skills and knowledge required for both their present and future. ... -
Key external influences on smoking initiation by Indian youth
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Rates of smoking behaviour have declined in recent decades in many western countries, as the severe negative consequences of smoking to health become known to the public. However, youth show the lowest rates of decline in ... -
Kia Ora, Fairy Tale
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The Tui Street Tales is a collection of stories for children aged approximately nine to twelve years. The stories take place in Tui Street, where two boys realise that fairy tale themes are running through the mysteries ... -
‘Kia Ora’: Cultural Tourism, Language Revitalisation & ‘Te Reo Māori’
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Tourism is a general concept. Compared with other industries, tourism is directly tied to many aspects of a destination. For example, it boosts the local economy, advertises the local culture, can break cultural stereotypes ... -
Kia Whai Reo Te Wao
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The Māori language has been in a constant state of change and evolution since the arrival of the ancestors of Māori to New Zealand. The environment known by traditional Māori was vastly different to that known today. Daily ... -
Killed in the line of duty: who is killing foreign correspondents and why?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)The world of journalism is becoming increasingly dangerous, as figures published by international media organisations demonstrate. But the Western news media suggests, that particularly Western foreign correspondents are ... -
A kinematic analysis of acute and longitudinal adaptations to resisted sprinting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2002)The phase of greatest acceleration (0-30 metres) during sprinting is thought to be critical for success in many sporting situations. Methods for improving acceleration phase performance are therefore an important area of ... -
Kinetoscopic City: A Spatial Archival Recollection of an Urban Spectacle As an Immersive Cinematic Bi-location
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This creative research thesis approaches Fort Lane and its relative precinct as an invitation to reimagine, remap and rewrite the city as a kinetoscope2 arcade. Here, as a precursor to contemporary cinema, offered a new ... -
King Tide
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)King Tide is a 114 minute comedy-drama that is an exploration of care and of community. It follows the middle-aged Reade as he returns to New Zealand from the Gold Coast to begin an unofficial investigation into ACC fraud ... -
The King: A Documentary and Exegesis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This Masters Exegesis is a creative practice exploration of the ordinary/extraordinary life of Andy Stankovich: a scrap metal yard worker, a world-class boxer, and an Elvis Presley performer. The King is an observational ... -
Knitted Paintings: Exploring the Potential of Colour in Knit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)KNITTED PAINTINGS is a textile design project examining the significance of design and technology in knitted textile production, using practice-based investigations as a means of facilitating unique contributions to ...