Education: Theses and Dissertations
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Play as a context for relationships and learning in universal group postnatal parenting education in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2022)The role of parenting in influencing life outcomes for children is significant, with parent- child relationships a key driver of development in the early years. The transition to parenthood in the postnatal period (birth ... -
Student leader perspectives on participating in a strength-based character programme.
(2022)Despite a growing interest in student leadership and the existence of many leadership theories, we know little about how students understand leadership and experience leadership development opportunities, especially in ... -
Updating the Bernstein model : engaging audiences with classical music.
(2022)Leonard Bernstein’s New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts have served as an exemplar of classical music outreach and engagement for over six decades. The purpose of this study is to update the Bernstein model in ... -
A history of the Merivale-Papanui Rugby Football Club : estab. 1882
(1970)I decided to make a study of the history of the Merivale-Papanui Rugby Football Club for two reasons; firstly, because I was a member of this Club and, therefore, have a personal interest in the Club's history, and secondly, ... -
The influence of COVID-19 and online delivery on reading and writing skill-based anxieties in Japan
(2022)The influence of reading and writing skill-based anxieties on second language acquisition (SLA) has centered around classroom lesson delivery. Furthermore, those few studies that included online lesson delivery were performed ... -
An evaluation of the effectiveness of antecedent-based modifications for treating sleep problems among children on the autism spectrum.
(2022)Sleep problems are a commonly reported issue for children and adolescents on the autism spectrum. Given the impact of these problems on the child and their family, it is imperative to provide families with an effective ... -
Examining contradictions in theoretical and practical understandings of formal concepts of learning-teaching among teacher educators.
(2021)In the field of education, teaching practice is the space-time where/when learning-teaching theory becomes tangible, observable. In research on teacher educators, empirical methods such as self- study, case study, enquiry ... -
Leadership for professional learning: developing teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for nature of science in New Zealand secondary schools.
(2021)The New Zealand curriculum requires science to be taught through the Nature of Science (NOS). NOS, which includes the skills and processes used by scientists to explain the world in which they live, is deemed necessary for ... -
Measuring positive youth development in youth work : a pilot test of two Q-sort measures.
(2019)In New Zealand and internationally there is a growing interest in the applications of Positive Youth Development (PYD) theory as a guide for youth programme development and evaluation. In light of this, the present study ... -
The impact of lesson study on teacher professional development
(2021)Lesson Study (LS) as a collaborative learning approach for teacher professional development remains an area of critical interest for educational professionals. Most studies focus on the benefits and defects of LS practices ... -
Nofoilo i leo Samoa - Samoan phonological awareness : a study of Samoan early literacy development and implications for effective teaching strategies.
(2021)The higher aim of any school system is to ensure that children under its watch are successful in reading and writing. Parents too are committed to their children’s education, doing their part to support their children’s ... -
ICT in Punjab and teachers’ professional and personal lives : a case study of selected private secondary schools.
(2021)This thesis investigates factors that affected acceptance and integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in selected Low Fee Private (LFP) secondary schools in rural and semi-rural Punjab, India, focusing ... -
Effectiveness of strength training interventions on adolescent backstroke swimming performance.
(2022)The scientific literature on swimming often states swimming performance is highly influenced by the strength and muscular power of the upper and lower body. To reduce injury risk and enhance swimming performance, coaches ... -
Contributing factors of teachers’ acceptance intention to gamified learning tools in secondary schools : a scale development study
(University of Canterbury, 2021)In the past decades, educationalists were fighting with video games since students naturally prefer to play video games rather than spending time on “more meaningful” activities such as book reading. After the long-term ... -
A Malaysian private university's alumni and students' experiential learning process in an outdoor programme
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education has emphasised the importance of soft skills that higher learning institutions need to include in their curricula to graduate holistic, entrepreneurial and balanced students. Soft ... -
The relationship between literacy, self-efficacy and behaviour across the early years of school in New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The correlation between self-efficacy, literacy and behaviour has the potential to have a long lasting impact on students’ academic achievement, psychosocial development, and wider societal success. While each of these ... -
Why and how people over forty continue with lifestyle sports : changes in practice and meaning.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This study inquired into why and how people approaching middle age continue to engage in the lifestyle sports of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. Lifestyle sports is a term used for sports like surfing, skateboarding ... -
Matangia ‘i Namo : science teachers’ and students’ conceptualisations of local environmental and climate change issues : talanoa from Ha‘apai and Port Vila
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Pacific communities in both rural and urban settings are experiencing the impacts of the global climate crisis, as well as non-climatic factors, on their local ecosystems. Developing adaptation strategies to respond to ... -
The dance of the best hopes: how a solution-focused counsellor ‘leads from one step behind’ in the best hopes discussion
(University of Canterbury, 2021)‘What are your best hopes from our talking?’ or a variation of this question, is one of the most common openings in solution-focused brief therapy sessions. The best hopes question is designed to begin a dialogue about the ... -
The identification and classification of reading disorders based on the simple view of reading.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Poor readers are not a homogeneous group of children. Instead, the aetiology and the magnitude of their reading difficulties vary from child to child. Many researchers have attempted to explain this variation through the ...
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