title: Capturing their dream: Video diaries and minority consumers

authors: Brown, Charis

subjects: visual methods

abstract: This paper describes the characteristics and benefits of a visual ethnography method called “video diary.” The authors illustrate the special features of the method based on their experiences in using it to understand consumer acculturation of Pacific Islanders in New Zealand. In brief, research participants benefit from the control and voice that video diaries give them. Researchers benefit from “saturated description” and collaborative analysis. The benefits of video diaries are particularly suited to ethnographic research with people from collectivist or vulnerable groups. Video diaries can be used alone or along with other ethnographic methods and the authors recommend them to consumer researchers, who want to understand routine and private aspects of consumers' lives or any aspect of culture. Their range of use is limited only by one's imagination.

text: Capturing their dream: Video diaries and minority consumers This paper describes the characteristics and benefits of a visual ethnography method called “video diary.” The authors illustrate the special features of the method based on their experiences in using it to understand consumer acculturation of Pacific Islanders in New Zealand. In brief, research participants benefit from the control and voice that video diaries give them. Researchers benefit from “saturated description” and collaborative analysis. The benefits of video diaries are particularly suited to ethnographic research with people from collectivist or vulnerable groups. Video diaries can be used alone or along with other ethnographic methods and the authors recommend them to consumer researchers, who want to understand routine and private aspects of consumers' lives or any aspect of culture. Their range of use is limited only by one's imagination.

year: 2010

title: Paper trains

authors: Abbott, Amber

subjects: poetry

abstract: In the end, it keeps coming back to that. How we’ve got to move past each other. I tell your story 
in a way that somehow still makes it all about me. I count the trains, burn Bible paper. I’m left 
inconsolable on the dance floor. I try to paint a bowl of fruit and it always ends up being a self-portrait. I suppose that’s life. You reach your hands out for others, but they’re still your hands.

A train is late to the station. Dogs howl in the night. A kitchen tap drips without sound. Lungs fill 
with lake water. Books remain unread. Words, unspoken.

Paper Trains is a narrative-driven collection of poems exploring how people move through grief 
and the places it can take them. After losing her best friend, the narrator of these poems latches 
on to everything she can to keep herself afloat. Bad omens, old jackets, blue paper cranes.

We follow her journey as she navigates both devastating loss and the unrest of her early 20s. 
There are ways to stay busy: house parties, coffee shops, home renovation, self-pity, gardening. 
She moves through spaces to delay moving on.

We witness the effects that death has on her relationships with others and the burdens that she 
must now carry. 

This is a tale of violence, anger, and isolation. Of forgetting and remembering 
again. Betrayal. Begrudging hope. Superstitions and bad life choices. Trains always running late.

text: Paper trains In the end, it keeps coming back to that. How we’ve got to move past each other. I tell your story 
in a way that somehow still makes it all about me. I count the trains, burn Bible paper. I’m left 
inconsolable on the dance floor. I try to paint a bowl of fruit and it always ends up being a self-portrait. I suppose that’s life. You reach your hands out for others, but they’re still your hands.

A train is late to the station. Dogs howl in the night. A kitchen tap drips without sound. Lungs fill 
with lake water. Books remain unread. Words, unspoken.

Paper Trains is a narrative-driven collection of poems exploring how people move through grief 
and the places it can take them. After losing her best friend, the narrator of these poems latches 
on to everything she can to keep herself afloat. Bad omens, old jackets, blue paper cranes.

We follow her journey as she navigates both devastating loss and the unrest of her early 20s. 
There are ways to stay busy: house parties, coffee shops, home renovation, self-pity, gardening. 
She moves through spaces to delay moving on.

We witness the effects that death has on her relationships with others and the burdens that she 
must now carry. 

This is a tale of violence, anger, and isolation. Of forgetting and remembering 
again. Betrayal. Begrudging hope. Superstitions and bad life choices. Trains always running late.

year: 2024

title: 1999 Professorial Address: Nau te rourou, naku te rourou… Māori education: setting an agenda.

authors: Bishop, Russell

subjects: educational outcomes

abstract: Current educational policies and practices in Aotearoa/New Zealand were developed and continue to be developed within a framework of power imbalances, which effects Maori the greatest. An alternative model that seeks to address indigenous Māori aspirations and Treaty of Waitangi guarantees for self determination is presented here. This model suggests how a tertiary teacher education institution might create learning contexts wherein power-sharing images, principles and practices will facilitate successful participation by Māori students in mainstream classrooms. This model constitutes the classroom as a place where young people's sense-making processes (cultures) are incorporated and enhanced, where the existing knowledges of young people are seen as "acceptable" and "official" and where the teacher interacts with students in such a way that new knowledge is co-created. Such a classroom will generate totally different interaction and participation patterns and educational outcomes from a classroom where knowledge is seen as something that the teacher makes sense of and then passes on to students.

text: 1999 Professorial Address: Nau te rourou, naku te rourou… Māori education: setting an agenda. Current educational policies and practices in Aotearoa/New Zealand were developed and continue to be developed within a framework of power imbalances, which effects Maori the greatest. An alternative model that seeks to address indigenous Māori aspirations and Treaty of Waitangi guarantees for self determination is presented here. This model suggests how a tertiary teacher education institution might create learning contexts wherein power-sharing images, principles and practices will facilitate successful participation by Māori students in mainstream classrooms. This model constitutes the classroom as a place where young people's sense-making processes (cultures) are incorporated and enhanced, where the existing knowledges of young people are seen as "acceptable" and "official" and where the teacher interacts with students in such a way that new knowledge is co-created. Such a classroom will generate totally different interaction and participation patterns and educational outcomes from a classroom where knowledge is seen as something that the teacher makes sense of and then passes on to students.

year: 2000