title: Book Review: Work Integrated Learning: A Guide to Effective Practice

authors: Zegwaard, Karsten E.

subjects: book review

abstract: This article review the book, “Work Integrated Learning: A Guide to Effective Practice”, by Lesley Cooper, Janice Orrell, & Margaret Bowden.

text: Book Review: Work Integrated Learning: A Guide to Effective Practice This article review the book, “Work Integrated Learning: A Guide to Effective Practice”, by Lesley Cooper, Janice Orrell, & Margaret Bowden.

year: 2010

title: Teaching and learning about difference: the geographies of the “Other”

authors: McLeay, Colin

subjects: geography

abstract: In January 2010, the New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS) sponsored a conference on the theme of Positioning Geography at the University of Waikato. The conference brought local, regional and national teachers of Geography together with three International Geographical Union (IGU) Commissions (Gender and Geography, Geographical Education, Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change) to discuss issues of importance to the discipline in this place (the Pacific region) and time (an era of repositioning in the discipline). The Department of Geography, Environmental Planning and Tourism hosted the conference at the University of Waikato with the Conference Organising Committee made up of Waikato branch members of the NZGS and staff at the University.
There were several strong themes in the Conference, with teaching and learning about the “Other” being notable for the challenges it provided the discipline at both secondary and tertiary levels. In this introduction to the focused conference papers that follow, we provide a commentary on the theme, we relate this to the mechanisms for delivering Geography in the contemporary secondary and tertiary sectors and we introduce the three papers and authors.

text: Teaching and learning about difference: the geographies of the “Other” In January 2010, the New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS) sponsored a conference on the theme of Positioning Geography at the University of Waikato. The conference brought local, regional and national teachers of Geography together with three International Geographical Union (IGU) Commissions (Gender and Geography, Geographical Education, Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change) to discuss issues of importance to the discipline in this place (the Pacific region) and time (an era of repositioning in the discipline). The Department of Geography, Environmental Planning and Tourism hosted the conference at the University of Waikato with the Conference Organising Committee made up of Waikato branch members of the NZGS and staff at the University.
There were several strong themes in the Conference, with teaching and learning about the “Other” being notable for the challenges it provided the discipline at both secondary and tertiary levels. In this introduction to the focused conference papers that follow, we provide a commentary on the theme, we relate this to the mechanisms for delivering Geography in the contemporary secondary and tertiary sectors and we introduce the three papers and authors.

year: 2011

title: Researching collaborative artistic practice.

authors: Barbour, Karen

subjects: arts research

abstract: In this paper we offer discussion of collaboration in artistic practice, based on a two-and-a-half-year-long research project undertaken by artists/researchers at the University of Waikato, working in collaboration with local performers. Grounded in kaupapa M¯ori, feminist and phenomenological research methodologies, this research project provided a context for exploring existing understandings of collaborative processes in the arts, and for immersion in and development of alternative processes, across artistic mediums and cultures. Drawing on contemporary understandings of cross-cultural and intercultural practices in the arts, we discuss how shared conceptualisation of ideas, immersion in different creative processes, personal reflection and development over extended periods of time were found to foster collaboration. In this paper we will explore the value and nature of relationships within collaboration, and discuss how selfdetermination or tino rangatiratanga might be maintained within the context of collaborative performance art.

text: Researching collaborative artistic practice. In this paper we offer discussion of collaboration in artistic practice, based on a two-and-a-half-year-long research project undertaken by artists/researchers at the University of Waikato, working in collaboration with local performers. Grounded in kaupapa M¯ori, feminist and phenomenological research methodologies, this research project provided a context for exploring existing understandings of collaborative processes in the arts, and for immersion in and development of alternative processes, across artistic mediums and cultures. Drawing on contemporary understandings of cross-cultural and intercultural practices in the arts, we discuss how shared conceptualisation of ideas, immersion in different creative processes, personal reflection and development over extended periods of time were found to foster collaboration. In this paper we will explore the value and nature of relationships within collaboration, and discuss how selfdetermination or tino rangatiratanga might be maintained within the context of collaborative performance art.

year: 2007