title: Local and distant Pacific climate signals in cave hydrochemistry: Waipuna cave, New Zealand

authors: Nava, Cinthya

abstract: In this study, the preliminary results of monitoring at Waipuna cave, New Zealand, are introduced to support the development of speleothem paleoclimate archives of long-term variability in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and teleconnections to high southern latitudes. Waipuna cave is located in Waitomo region, North Island, NZ, which in turn is situated at the southwestern fringe of the Pacific Ocean, an area highly sensitive to ENSO and the southern Westerlies (Shulmeister et al 2004). Monitoring of current surface and in-cave microclimate parameters help us to understand and interpret the conditions under which geochemical proxies were incorporated into the speleothem and quantify climate-speleothem transfer functions.

text: Local and distant Pacific climate signals in cave hydrochemistry: Waipuna cave, New Zealand In this study, the preliminary results of monitoring at Waipuna cave, New Zealand, are introduced to support the development of speleothem paleoclimate archives of long-term variability in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and teleconnections to high southern latitudes. Waipuna cave is located in Waitomo region, North Island, NZ, which in turn is situated at the southwestern fringe of the Pacific Ocean, an area highly sensitive to ENSO and the southern Westerlies (Shulmeister et al 2004). Monitoring of current surface and in-cave microclimate parameters help us to understand and interpret the conditions under which geochemical proxies were incorporated into the speleothem and quantify climate-speleothem transfer functions.

year: 2018

title: Establishing the "new" into "the way we do things": Reviewing paper aims and content in response to national and local developments.

authors: Earl Rinehart, (Suzanne) Kerry

subjects: initial teacher education

abstract: This paper reports on a review of "Professional practice and inquiry I" in response to local and national developments. The introduction of The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) raised questions for initial teacher educators about how they might prepare their pre-service student teachers to teach using this updated curriculum. "Professional practice and inquiry I" is a first semester compulsory professional paper University of Waikato Bachelor of Teaching students (primary). The introduction of the 2007 national curriculum document was not the only reason for a review of this professional paper. This paper outlines how the teaching team had recognized the mixture of influences that impact on the development of paper content, explains in some detail what we did for the teaching and learning of the new 2007 key competencies, and the outcomes we found through collecting student voice. This was part of a collaborative research project investigating the teaching and learning of the "front end" of The New Zealand Curriculum (ibid) and incorporating those findings into the primary Bachelor of Teaching programme.

text: Establishing the "new" into "the way we do things": Reviewing paper aims and content in response to national and local developments. This paper reports on a review of "Professional practice and inquiry I" in response to local and national developments. The introduction of The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) raised questions for initial teacher educators about how they might prepare their pre-service student teachers to teach using this updated curriculum. "Professional practice and inquiry I" is a first semester compulsory professional paper University of Waikato Bachelor of Teaching students (primary). The introduction of the 2007 national curriculum document was not the only reason for a review of this professional paper. This paper outlines how the teaching team had recognized the mixture of influences that impact on the development of paper content, explains in some detail what we did for the teaching and learning of the new 2007 key competencies, and the outcomes we found through collecting student voice. This was part of a collaborative research project investigating the teaching and learning of the "front end" of The New Zealand Curriculum (ibid) and incorporating those findings into the primary Bachelor of Teaching programme.

year: 2010

title: Māori Psychology Workforce & Māori-Focussed Course Content Review

authors: Waitoki, Waikaremoana

abstract: The Ministry of Health (2014) acknowledges that inaccurate and unreliable workforce data collections have been an issue for some time. This is a particular issue for the psychology workforce, with there being no single data set able to accurately and reliably describe the psychology workforce in detail. The annual psychology workforce survey was discontinued post 2010, although District Health Board (DHB) Shared Services does provide a dataset pertaining to the DHB psychology workforce. This report details the paper presents data relating to the: Current Māori psychology workforce; and describes the inclusion of Māori focused content within university psychology department courses.

text: Māori Psychology Workforce & Māori-Focussed Course Content Review The Ministry of Health (2014) acknowledges that inaccurate and unreliable workforce data collections have been an issue for some time. This is a particular issue for the psychology workforce, with there being no single data set able to accurately and reliably describe the psychology workforce in detail. The annual psychology workforce survey was discontinued post 2010, although District Health Board (DHB) Shared Services does provide a dataset pertaining to the DHB psychology workforce. This report details the paper presents data relating to the: Current Māori psychology workforce; and describes the inclusion of Māori focused content within university psychology department courses.

year: 2015