title: Malleable boundaries - Creative modes of practice and inquiry in the Academy

authors: Hill, Rodrigo

abstract: The exhibition ‘Malleable Boundaries’ considers the burgeoning field of creative and non-traditional research outputs across our academic disciplines at the University of Waikato. The show highlights work from practicing artists, emerging and established academics, all testing the malleability of the academy's boundaries and challenging our collective understanding of what research can look like in practice.

Creativity and non-traditional research approaches have a strong footing across disciplines, at times transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary, often transcending traditional boundaries. Discover how creative thinking thrives across our faculties and schools, from the School of Arts and Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, through Education and Design, to the unexpected realms of Law and the Sciences.

Across the exhibition are practicing artists working in photography and paint, weaving, audio/visual and performance. Alongside them are qualitative researchers that have ventured into non-traditional outputs including cartography, documentary-based production, game design, comic book creation and posters. Join us in recognizing the innovative spirit that defines our academic community here at the University of Waikato.

text: Malleable boundaries - Creative modes of practice and inquiry in the Academy The exhibition ‘Malleable Boundaries’ considers the burgeoning field of creative and non-traditional research outputs across our academic disciplines at the University of Waikato. The show highlights work from practicing artists, emerging and established academics, all testing the malleability of the academy's boundaries and challenging our collective understanding of what research can look like in practice.

Creativity and non-traditional research approaches have a strong footing across disciplines, at times transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary, often transcending traditional boundaries. Discover how creative thinking thrives across our faculties and schools, from the School of Arts and Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, through Education and Design, to the unexpected realms of Law and the Sciences.

Across the exhibition are practicing artists working in photography and paint, weaving, audio/visual and performance. Alongside them are qualitative researchers that have ventured into non-traditional outputs including cartography, documentary-based production, game design, comic book creation and posters. Join us in recognizing the innovative spirit that defines our academic community here at the University of Waikato.

year: 2024

title: Like Status Sells: A Field Study of Belief Congruence

authors: Stringfield, Paul Anthony

abstract: A test of Rokeach's (1960) theory of belief congruence with 53 life insurance salesmen strongly supports the validity of the theory. The theory was generalized beyond the pencil and paper test situations to behaviour representative of real life settings. Afield study technique was used and the experiment investigated the effect that the principle of belief congruence would have on life assurance salesmen and clients of similar background, attitudes and values, as compared with salesmen and clients of differing backgrounds, when selling life assurance. The results revealed that salesmen sold significantly more life assurance to clients of similar background or occupational groups to themselves than to dissimilar occupational groups. Also, the results revealed that salesmen holding a particular occupational rank would sell significantly more life assurance below their occupational rank than above it.

text: Like Status Sells: A Field Study of Belief Congruence A test of Rokeach's (1960) theory of belief congruence with 53 life insurance salesmen strongly supports the validity of the theory. The theory was generalized beyond the pencil and paper test situations to behaviour representative of real life settings. Afield study technique was used and the experiment investigated the effect that the principle of belief congruence would have on life assurance salesmen and clients of similar background, attitudes and values, as compared with salesmen and clients of differing backgrounds, when selling life assurance. The results revealed that salesmen sold significantly more life assurance to clients of similar background or occupational groups to themselves than to dissimilar occupational groups. Also, the results revealed that salesmen holding a particular occupational rank would sell significantly more life assurance below their occupational rank than above it.

year: 1971

title: Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo

authors: Skerrett White, Mere Ngāutauta

abstract: This thesis focuses on reversing language shift (RLS) efforts via the revernacularisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language) in Te Amokura Kōhanga Reo (Māori language nest). J. Fishman’s (2001a) graded intergenerational disruption scale (GIDS), and M. Durie’s (2001, 2003) discussions on Māori educational advancement provide conceptual frameworks for the meaning-making, cultural and symbolic relationships of language to culture and identity (Fishman, 1996). This qualitative case study involves three young children and their families who are committed to the intergenerational transmission of te reo Māori, the threatened indigenous heritage language of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Observational data was analysed illustrating these bilingual, biliterate, bicultural, bicognitive and bilateral children and their use of sophisticated language for increasingly complex purposes. This study identifies how children’s learning dispositions for shared reference with adults (who are active listeners and thoughtful speakers in meaningful activities [Carr, M., 2000, 2001]) are part of the deep structure of a unique cultural context successfully supporting language revernacularisation. In addition the study develops critical insights into how RLS can be viewed as the linguistic arm for furthering Māori aspirations of tino rangatiratanga (Bishop, R., 1997a; Bishop R., & Glynn, T., 1999) and has further implications for language planning, pedagogy and praxis in Kōhanga Reo.

text: Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo This thesis focuses on reversing language shift (RLS) efforts via the revernacularisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language) in Te Amokura Kōhanga Reo (Māori language nest). J. Fishman’s (2001a) graded intergenerational disruption scale (GIDS), and M. Durie’s (2001, 2003) discussions on Māori educational advancement provide conceptual frameworks for the meaning-making, cultural and symbolic relationships of language to culture and identity (Fishman, 1996). This qualitative case study involves three young children and their families who are committed to the intergenerational transmission of te reo Māori, the threatened indigenous heritage language of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Observational data was analysed illustrating these bilingual, biliterate, bicultural, bicognitive and bilateral children and their use of sophisticated language for increasingly complex purposes. This study identifies how children’s learning dispositions for shared reference with adults (who are active listeners and thoughtful speakers in meaningful activities [Carr, M., 2000, 2001]) are part of the deep structure of a unique cultural context successfully supporting language revernacularisation. In addition the study develops critical insights into how RLS can be viewed as the linguistic arm for furthering Māori aspirations of tino rangatiratanga (Bishop, R., 1997a; Bishop R., & Glynn, T., 1999) and has further implications for language planning, pedagogy and praxis in Kōhanga Reo.

year: 2003