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The effect of the “Yes, I Can! Sleep Education Programme” on children’s sleep, working memory and emotion recognition – a pilot study
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Objective: In this study, the researcher investigated the effects of the Yes I Can! Sleep Education Programme (YIC Programme) (Liberty, 2018) in school-age children’s sleep, working memory and emotion recognition in a ... -
Intensive care nurse-family engagement from a global perspective: A qualitative multi-site exploration
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Background: Critical illness is distressing for families, and often results in negative effects on family health that influence a family's ability to support their critically ill family member. Although recent attention ... -
Enhancing BMX performance using a multidisciplinary sport science approach
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The sport of Bicycle Motocross (BMX) is an Olympic discipline. It is classified as off-road bicycle racing with an intermittent sprint nature due to the high number of repeated maximal efforts required. To improve riders’ ... -
‘Staying with the trouble’: Praxis crisis in science teacher education for emergent bilingual learners
(2021)While there is a small but growing body of literature on how novice teachers can be better prepared to improve instructional experiences for Emergent Bilingual Learners (EBLs) in science classrooms, very little is known ... -
Targeting human milk fortification to improve very preterm infant growth and brain development: study protocol for Nourish, a single-center randomized, controlled clinical trial.
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)Human milk is recommended for very preterm infants, but its variable macronutrient content may contribute to undernutrition during a critical period in development. We hypothesize that individually targeted human milk ... -
Becoming language policymakers in science and education.
(AERA, 2021)The present study considers how novice teachers become language policymakers in linguistically hegemonic schooling contexts. We used critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2010) for transcribed interviews and classroom ... -
Obstacles, obligations and optimism: enhancing transition(s) to employment for people with disabilities in a post-COVID context
(2020)The global lockdowns of 2020 associated with COVID-19 have highlighted how, with sufficient impetus, employers can innovate with telecommuting and other accommodations that offer new forms of employment, and new potential ... -
Hearing their voices : counsellors’ perspectives on working with adolescent foreign students.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The number of international students studying abroad increases most years and whilst the United States is still seen as the first choice for many international students other countries, such as New Zealand, also attract ... -
Universal parenting programmes for parents of adolescents : a systematic review of adolescent psychosocial outcomes.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Most young people navigate adolescence, a period of great developmental change, successfully. However, a significant minority experience psychosocial difficulty that can have lifelong consequences. The influence of parenting ... -
Diversity in the essential oil of New Zealand grown Kānuka, Kunzea ericoides (A. Rich) Joy Thomps.
(2021)Kunzea ericoides (Kānuka) is a New Zealand (NZ) native tree. The essential oil, obtained from leaves and branches, has been commercially produced in New Zealand since the early 1990’s. Whilst there has been extensive work ... -
Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response.
(Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2021)Telehealth implementation is a complex systems-based endeavour. This paper compares telehealth responses to (COrona VIrus Disease 2019) COVID-19 across ten countries to identify lessons learned about the complexity of ... -
Sailiga tomai ma malamalama’aga fa’a-Pasifika—Seeking Pasifika Knowledge to Support Student Learning: Reflections on Cultural Values Following an Educational Journey to Samoa
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)Transforming practices in initial teacher education and school and early childhood education contexts to support the success of Pasifika students and children can be challenging. Palagi educators, in particular, may find ... -
School experiences of children with ADHD in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)In this research, I explored the school experiences of four New Zealand primary school children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the perceptions their respective parent(s) held of their ... -
One pākehā counsellor’s journey towards bicultural competence.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This research explores my experiences during a three-year period of learning about tikanga Māori and developing my competence and confidence with counselling in a biculturally-respectful manner. I had two key motives for ... -
Mindfulness, interbeing and the engaged Buddhism of Thích Nhất Hạnh.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis explores the practices of mindfulness, interbeing and Engaged Buddhism proposed by Thích Nhất Hạnh (born 1926), a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, calligrapher and peace activist, who was nominated ... -
Proposing a Holistic Inclusive Education Model for Policy, Curriculum and Classroom Development
(2020)The notions of inclusion and diversity are increasingly used in a wide variety of areas in public debate and policy, as well as in educational curriculum and policy documents in New Zealand and internationally since the ... -
Preschool Language Development of Children Born to Women with an Opioid Use Disorder.
(MDPI AG, 2021)Increasing evidence suggests that prenatal exposure to opioids may affect brain development, but limited data exist on the effects of opioid-exposure on preschool language development. Our study aimed to characterize the ... -
Investigating change in the food environment over 10 years in urban New Zealand: A longitudinal and nationwide geospatial study
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Background: While it is likely that changing food environments have contributed to the rise in obesity rates, very few studies have explored historical trends in the food environment with little, if any, consideration at ...
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