College of Education, Health and Human Development: Recent submissions
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Towards understanding of student engagement in blended learning: A conceptualization of learning without borders.
(2018)Not another paper on student engagement! The topic of student engagement has been reported on for decades and there is a multitude of literature adopting different perspectives and views conceptualizing and defining ... -
“Not another Katrina.” Interpersonal communication at interagency interfaces when responding to the needs of vulnerable people during the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Background: We are in a period of history where natural disasters are increasing in both frequency and severity. They are having widespread impacts on communities, especially on vulnerable communities, those most affected ... -
From orthodoxy to orthopraxy : towards an acceptance of the university as a social conscience.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The right to speak without fear of reprisal is essential to the ideal of the university. In some contexts, this right is enshrined in law. Universities in New Zealand have a legal obligation to accept a role as critic ... -
The effect of training in Mobile Assisted Language Learning on attitude, beliefs and practices of tertiary students in Pakistan.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Pakistan has two official languages, Urdu and English, where Urdu is the contact language and English is the language of business, higher education, military, government and is considered the symbol of status in the society. ... -
“It’s 6! And I didn’t even need to count them!” A study of subitising and the development of part-whole thinking with 5 year olds.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The number of New Zealand primary school children involved in mathematics interventions funded by the Ministry of Education is increasing, with many intervention teachers claiming lack of number sense as the cause. This ... -
Strengths of family carers: looking after a terminally ill adult under 65 years of age
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Learning of a potentially terminal illness is devastating at any age. How much more so when in early or mid-adulthood, busy with dreams of family and career goals. This research project investigates the experiences of ... -
Developing expert performance in sport : integrating working memory training into football coaching
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Expert performance in football requires players to perceive, decide and execute actions in response to context, with reference to a playing model. The process to perceive, decide and execute actions can be referred to as ... -
Mai i te tirohanga ākonga : Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu young adult Māori student narratives about their schooling experiences in the Waitaha (Canterbury) region.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This research investigated the narratives of nine Māori young adult students. The primary objective was to gain a deeper understanding of the lived experiences and various challenges confronting this group of Māori students. ... -
An ethnographic study of adolescent girls’ experiences of and enjoyment in a New Zealand school sport basketball team
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Girls’ participation in sport remains stubbornly lower than that of boys (Meier, Hartmann & Larson, 2018) and has attracted significant research attention but there is a lack of studies inquiring into girls’ experiences ... -
How to Support Child and Adolescent Learning and Coping in the Immediate Aftermath of the Shooting: Suggestions for Parents and Teachers
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The influences of a primitive reflex integration programme within the classroom : teacher/parent perspectives and student results.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The birth of a human is facilitated by primitive reflexes which assist with the infant’s survival. Once the reflexes have been engaged, they then integrate and cognition takes over the functions needed to survive and ... -
People ageing with spinal cord injury in New Zealand: a hidden population? The need for a spinal cord injury registry
(University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2016)AIMS: To identify and establish a research database of ageing New Zealand people who sustained a traumatic or non-traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) before 1990. METHODS: All living New Zealand residents incurring a SCI ... -
Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(2018)© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Background: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development ... -
Going through the emotions: an investigation into key emotional experiences of physical education leaders.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Effective leadership starts with a desire to make a difference, and equally requires the completion of a variety of duties that in turn elicit a range of emotions. The purpose of this study was to identify the influence ... -
Development of teachers’ and coaches’ approaches and beliefs about games teaching in New Zealand schools as a process of learning.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This study builds on inquiry into the complexity of physical education teachers and sport coach development that accounts for the powerful influence of experience and context with a focus on teaching, and coaching team ... -
What is the influence of participation in school sport on ethical learning in a New Zealand independent school?
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Positive moral and ethical learning is not an automatic outcome of participation in sport with the literature suggesting that coaching and teaching need to focus on achieving this learning and considering the negative ... -
Designing For The Deaf: The Potential Of Technology Supported Social Skills Training Interventions For D/Deaf and Hard Of Hearing Students.
(2018)Technology-supported social communication and pragmatics training for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students is an important avenue of research. In this paper we describe some key challenges that DHH students face, ... -
Counsellor identity development : an authoethnographic account of emergent counsellor identity.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)In New Zealand counselling degree programmes there is a focus on skill development within social learning environments, yet there is limited autoethnographic research exploring the identity development of trainee and ... -
Performing mundane materiality: Actor-Network Theory, global student mobility and a re/formation of 'social capital'
(2018)Social capital is a puzzling actor; made real by its allies. It has been ‘out-there’ in the form of scientific publications for decades. Although some characteristics are common to all elaborations of this theory (networks, ...
