Education: Theses and Dissertations
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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 ... -
Teaching reading to Asian students with English as an additional language in innovative learning environments in comparison to single cell traditional classrooms
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This thesis grew out of two interests: (i) the New Zealand Government’s investment in building flexible, open learning spaces (innovative learning environments) in primary schools; and (ii) the ongoing achievement gaps in ... -
The contribution of phonological and morphological awareness to word reading ability in L1 Hindi/ L2 English bilingual children: within-language and cross-language influences from L1 to L2.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The ability to read materials, such as textbooks, is vital to achieve academic success in education. In many cases, such as the one considered in this thesis (that of India), this may require the acquisition of reading in ... -
Relationships between syntactic awareness and writing ability for adult ESL learners.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This thesis investigated the relationship between syntactic awareness and writing in English as a Second Language (ESL) among Chinese adult learners. In order to assess this relationship, additional measures that have been ... -
The perceptions and experiences of Arabic mother tongue students in years 5 to 8 primary schooling in New Zealand when learning to read in English as a second language.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This study addressed the perceptions and experiences of Arabic-speaking ten to thirteen year-old students in New Zealand primary schools, and the teachers of these students in reading English as a second language (ESL). ... -
The role of Nature in nature-based therapy: a qualitative study of therapists’ perspectives.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Time spent in natural environments is proven to have positive benefits for human well-being. Counsellors and psychotherapists have started to work outdoors to combine the healing powers of nature with more traditional ... -
The experiences of students with disabilities in a Ghanaian university.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)In general, there has been an increase in the number of students with disabilities accessing and participating in higher education across Africa. In Ghana, higher education qualifications have become a requirement for ... -
Te Ahunganui : te Apounga : a gathering together of important elements (including spiritual elements) of growth and ideas for emotional sustenance.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Our research project describes the journey of working together to develop an appropriate Māori centred, Aotearoa New Zealand contextualised Emotional Literacy (EL) programme, targeted at ‘second chance’ Adult Learners in ... -
Linguistic landscapes (physical and virtual) of emergent bilingual 4 to 6-year-olds in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Language, literacy and learning occur across all environments (both physical and virtual) and across entire linguistic repertoires of emergent bilingual young children. An important way educators and policy-makers can value ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Talking about writing : a case study of a doctoral learning community
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis reports a study of a group of international doctoral students in New Zealand who were brought together to develop a learning community. The intention of the community was to help students to work collaboratively ... -
Learning experiences of students labelled as learning disabled in the Indonesian public primary schools.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This ethnographic case study research is concerned with learning disabilities in Indonesia. My interest is in understanding how a particular group of students are defined by teachers and how teachers’ perceptions of students ... -
Learning for development : factors that lead to successful development projects for marginalised communities affected by climate change in Bangladesh
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This study investigates the factors that are responsible for making international development (ID) projects successful in rural and urban contexts in Bangladesh. In particular, it investigates five ID projects that are ...
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