College of Education, Health and Human Development: Recent submissions
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Shoulder injuries of cricket fast bowlers in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Cricket is predominantly a summer sport enjoyed by all age groups and has a high participation rate, across the globe. The likelihood for injury exposure is high, given the popularity of playing cricket. Therefore, injury ... -
Attention and early childhood education.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Informed by Iris Murdoch’s concept of attention, this thesis argues that economic and scientistic discourses within early childhood education misrepresent and neglect essential moral aspects of pedagogy. Early childhood ... -
Co-enrolment in Deaf Education
(Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 2020)The purpose of my fellowship was to investigate the concept of co-enrolment with the potential opportunity to make recommendations for policy and practice regarding Deaf Education within the New Zealand education system. ... -
Benchmarking Nurse Maude’s long-term care hospital against Canterbury and national comprehensive standardised long-term care data : targeting falls, unintentional weight loss and pressure injuries.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Background Aged residential care (ARC) facilities throughout New Zealand will experience a higher demand over the subsequent decades, with many older people presenting with multimorbidity. In 2015, the International ... -
Cigarette smoking among university students aged 18-24 years in New Zealand: Results of the first (baseline) of two national surveys
(BMJ, 2019)Objectives: Although the smoking prevalence continues to decline in New Zealand (NZ) overall, little is known about smoking in university students. A 2013 survey of students aged 17-25 years found that 14% were current ... -
The development of a Feldenkrais® postural control programme for people with spinal cord injury : an action research study.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Aim The aim of this study was to develop an Awareness Through Movement® based Feldenkrais programme for people with SCI and identify whether the programme could address some of the negative consequences of SCI. M ... -
‘Becoming’ through dance : assemblages of young girls’ dance practice in special character high schools.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis explores the experiences of dance students in two specialised high schools in Christchurch, New Zealand. North and Chorus High School (pseudonyms), were established under special character legislation allowing ... -
Attention, literature and education.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)The study draws on both educational philosophy and literary works in order to illuminate its central idea. This idea is that attention, a vital pedagogical achievement, possesses preeminent worth in education. Yet ... -
A national study of childhood non-offending contact with police and later adolescent offending.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Objectives: A large number of children in Aotearoa New Zealand come into contact with police in a non-offending capacity (i.e., where the child is not considered a suspect in a crime). This study examined if this non-offending ... -
Culturally Responsive Practice for Indigenous Contexts: Provenance to Potential
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)Cultural diversity within educational communities is becoming more visible, discussed, and promoted than ever before. Interest in diversity has escalated as educational communities become increasingly globalized. While ... -
The Importance of Community Knowledge in Learning to Teach: Foregrounding Māori Cultural Knowledge to Support Preservice Teachers' Development of Culturally Responsive Practice
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Culturally responsive teaching is an essential component of reframing educator preparation for equity and has particular resonance when working in partnership with indigenous communities. ... -
Beyond competencies - describing work ready plus graduates for the New Zealand medical imaging workforce
(Wiley, 2018)Introduction: Medical imaging is a profession where technology and practice is moving forward at a fast pace, while also being situated within rapidly evolving models of healthcare delivery. This requires capabilities in ... -
University Students’ Negotiation of Physical Activity and Sport Participation Constraints
(SAGE Publications, 2019)<jats:p> University (i.e., college) students often encounter constraints to physical activity and sport participation that alter, or totally prevent, participation. The purpose of this study was to examine first-year ... -
Improving engagement with biomechanics: Student perspectives and a professional development initiative
(ASME International, 2019)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Student engagement is an essential aspect of educational environments, and this is especially true for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) ... -
Croquet
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“Go NZ YAS!!”: Children’s news media texts as curriculum resources in Aotearoa New Zealand
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Attending to current affairs and news within schools’ curricula is a potential pedagogical strategy that holds promise for addressing children’s knowledge, perspectives and agency in the world. However, our research suggests ... -
Media Literacy and digital citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand
(NZCER Press, 2019)In this chapter, we explore the concepts of media literacy and digital citizenship in the context of 21st century Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond. Focusing on the role criticality and technology plays in the current New ... -
Consistent condom use and its predictors among female sexual Partners of People who Inject Drugs in Klang Valley, Malaysia
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019)© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Men who inject drugs (MWIDs) comprise the highest percentage of diagnosed HIV cases in Malaysia. Their female partners risk being infected through unprotected sexual contact. This paper ...