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The Moveable Feast Collective Teach Design

The aim of this new eMedia project is to review aspects of the decision-making process with regards to teaching design, and the pedagogical framework employed. Moveable Feast attempted a complex cross-disciplinary research-based project that encompassed two disciplines, and incorporated 70… Continue Reading →

Ngā Reanga Youth Development Māori Styles

Using the stories of Māui to guide readers through the work, Keelan has authored a book that brings together ten years of experience and research in taiohinga Māori Development.  Known to most New Zealanders, Māori and non-Māori alike, Māui can… Continue Reading →

Embedding Building Information Modelling into Construction Technology and Documentation Courses

The aim of this research is to generate a resource to assist construction lecturers in identifying opportunities where Building Information Modelling [BIM] could be employed to augment the delivery of subject content within individual courses on construction technology programmes. The… Continue Reading →

Rosebank: Cabbages, Horses and Science

In 1993, Neville Exler filmed on his Sony Handicam, the three Connell brothers on site at their market garden on Rosebank Road. This film was made just as these men, the last farmers on Rosebank Road were negotiating the sale… Continue Reading →

Tertiary Students’ Numeracy Skills Requirements

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… Continue Reading →

Translation

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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… Continue Reading →

Press, Politics and People in Papua New Guinea 1950-1975

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,… Continue Reading →

Meeting the Learning Needs of Refugees and Migrants in Tertiary Blended ESOL Courses

Technology use in higher education is becoming ubiquitous. However, the particular needs of adult migrants 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… Continue Reading →

Undergraduate Research: A Source for Faculty Publications?

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… Continue Reading →

Te AkoWhaiora: Through learning Is Well-being

The Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management (GDNFPM), is one of the 160 programmes on offer at Unitec Institute of Technology. It was established in 1996 in response to a call from the community sector to improve the capability… Continue Reading →

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