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Barbara Brooke: A Trend-Setting Art Professional in New Zealand 1959-1980
(University of Canterbury. Art History, 2015)
Barbara Brooke was an early New Zealand arts professional. Born in Belfast, Canterbury, in 1925, Brooke became an important advocate for contemporary New Zealand art and its developing professionalism in Christchurch ...
The textual inscription of self : place in the retrospective childhood.
(University of Canterbury. Department of English, 2000)
This thesis is a study of five retrospective childhoods; namely, Frank
McCourt's Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Harry Crews' A Childhood: The
Biography of a Place, Wole Soyinka's Ake: The Years of Childhood, Maxine
Hong ...
Charities in the contract culture : the unintended consequences of partnership and intervention in the free market.
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Science, 2015)
This thesis looks at New Zealand charities and their role within the mixed economy of welfare since the introduction of the contract culture in the late 1980s. Interviews with 11 charity workers across 8 different charities ...
Māori participation and representation : an investigation into Māori reported experiences of participation and representation within the policy process post-MMP.
(University of Canterbury. Political Sciences, 2015)
This thesis seeks to understand Māori experiences of representation and participation in the policy process of New Zealand Government. The introduction of an MMP electoral system came with a promise of more effective ...
Parents' need for and experiences of teen triple P following the Christchurch earthquakes.
(University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2015)
Triple P parenting programmes have provided promising results for children and families in recent years. The aim of the current project was to explore the experiences of families leading up to participating in a Teen Triple ...
Theatre as a way of discovering common ground between separate ethnic and cultural groups.
(University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film, 2014)
Theatre theorists and practitioners around the world have taken on the challenge of developing strategies for bringing diverse peoples together through the use of a range of activities and techniques, many culminating in ...
“Can the EU be a credible international security actor without the integration of the Member States’ militaries?”
(University of Canterbury. NCRE, 2015)
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Europe emerged from World War Two as something akin to a new creation. Gone were the days of aggressive militarism and war, in its place would be civilian power and democracy; or so ...
Inherit the world, devour the earth : representations of western meat production and consumption in contemporary fiction.
(University of Canterbury. English, 2015)
A quick survey of reality television offerings, news articles, and advertisements are enough to show the ubiquity of meat on the screens and in the diets, homes, and psyches of many Western consumers. However, the animals ...
Compassion in the Curriculum: Exploring the Social Acceptability of teaching an Empathy Development Programme (EDP) within the context of New Zealand Primary Schools.
(University of Canterbury. Educational Studies & Leadership, 2014)
Empathy development programmes (EDP) are currently implemented in several New Zealand primary schools. Research has indicated a variety of potentially beneficial outcomes to these programmes yet a gap in literature is ...
The influence of Japanese noh, Balinese dance-drama and the Kathakali on four twentieth century western playwrights
(University of Canterbury, 1982)
Oriental drama has influenced twentieth century western
drama in many ways. I have chosen to look at four ways that
prove valuable in appreciating plays and productions of four
western playwrights. Yeats's oriental ...
