Invited to be part of a discussion panel of NZ tertiary learning advisors at a regional hui, the author has written on the main topic: numeracy skills required for current students to be successful with their studies. The paper gives some background and context, then focuses on the actual skills that students bring with them. This […]
The 31st Annual Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Conference was held at Unitec, Auckland, in July 2014. Taking ‘Translation’ as its theme, contributors were invited to explore translation, understood as the conscious transfer of ideas of buildings from one context into another. Papers in the conference took up the theme in a multitude of ways… […]
Press, Politics and the People in Papua New Guinea explores the changing function of the press in PNG from the post-war Australian return to the coming of independence in 1975. Inspired by Hank Nelson’s pioneering study of the PNG press, it shows how newspapers gradually changed from being a mirror of the expatriate world to […]
Technology use in higher education is becoming ubiquitous. However, the particular needs of adult migrant and refugees studying English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) necessitate careful course design and teaching practice if technology is not to present an insuperable barrier. This article surveys the literature to identify barriers to technology use by these learners, […]
Over the last two decades undergraduate students have been encouraged to problem solve in ‘the real world’ in order to construct their own subject knowledge. This paper explores a case study to examine the validity and reliability of students’ findings and considers whether the observations obtained by students can or should be made into academic […]
A research project that explores how effective the teaching and learning pedagogies of the Graduate Not For Profit Management, Department of Community and Health Services at Unitec have been in delivering and responding to the needs of a Maori cohort of students. Click here to read the report Click here to view other work by […]
The Unstable City engages with questions of Auckland’s architectural heritage and draws attention to the potential widespread loss of buildings. The immediate prompt for the publication was the series of devastating earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand during 2010 and 2011. Auckland’s seismic vulnerability and burgeoning growth projections specifically threaten older buildings. This project champions their […]
This new eMedia publication comes from project that was based on the notion of the evocative object – not necessarily around the way we might consider/connect/value an object in terms of its use, or its aesthetics, or ownership but rather in relation to our emotional lives – how objects can bring together both thought and […]