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Whāia Te Mauriora - In Pursuit of Healing: Theorising connections between soul healing, tribal self-determination and Māori suicide prevention in Aotearoa / New Zealand

Lawson-Te Aho, Keri (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Māori suicide is theorised as an outcome of the wounding of the indigenous spirit as a result of complex trauma birthed during colonisation. The spirit is theorised as the place where trauma and suffering take root in ...
Whakatipu te Pā Harakeke: What are the success factors that normalise the use of Māori language within the whānau?

Muller, Maureen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Despite the language revitalisation efforts of kōhanga reo and kura kaupapa Māori, the Māori language is still endangered. The population of highly proficient speakers is dwindling (Statistics New Zealand, 2013). The ...
Whakawhanaungatanga A-Reo: An Indigenous Grounded Theory for the Revitalization of Māori Language Speech Communities

Pohe, Ewan James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study focuses on the role of adult Māori language acquisition in the revitalization of the Māori language. Māori language transmission is now primarily dependent on transmission through educational institutions. The ...
What do young people think of development?: An exploration into the meanings young people make from NGO media

Tallon, Rachel Alexa Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Young people are not passive, homogenous audiences of media that is produced by international humanitarian and development organisations (NGOs). They actively read and engage with the messages cognitively and emotionally ...
What is Mental Disorder? Developing an Embodied, Embedded, and Enactive Psychopathology

Nielsen, Kristopher (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

What we take mental disorder to be has implications for how researchers classify, explain, and treat mental disorders. It also shapes how the public treat those who are experiencing mental disorder. This is the ...
What is Right? What is Wrong? and Does the Answer Tell Something about Culture? - an Investigation into Culture and Morality Using the Values Concept

Vauclair, Christin-Melanie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Morality, or what is considered right or wrong, varies seemingly across cultures. However, the literature shows that moral psychologists have mainly investigated moral reasoning assuming a universal morality. Cross-cultural ...
What Lies Beneath the Stated Meanings: a Transactional View of Language Learners Making Meaning with Texts

Marianne, ~ (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This thesis reports on a year long case study conducted into the processes and products of English Second Language (ESL) learners reading fiction texts for pleasure in a high school extensive reading program. Although ...
What Makes a Good Graded Reader: Engaging with Graded Readers in the Context of Extensive Reading in L2

Claridge, Gillian Margaret Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

It is widely accepted in the ESOL field that Extensive Reading is good for ESOL learners and there are many studies purporting to show that this is true. As a result, the publication of Graded Readers in English today ...
What Were They Thinking? An Experimental Investigation of Child Sexual Offenders' Beliefs.

Keown, Kirsten (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

In the field of forensic psychology, child sexual offenders (CSOs) are often hypothesised to hold abnormal beliefs that facilitate the onset and maintenance of their offending. This idea has had considerable impact upon ...
When an Infant Grandchild Dies: Family Matters

Stewart, Alison Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)

When a child dies the main focus of both clinical practitioners and researchers is on the parents and, to a lesser extent, the siblings. In contrast grandparents have been called the "forgotten grievers". Are grandparents ...
When Genetic and Environmental Factors Meet in Modelling Autism

Pettie, Michaela (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterised by deficits in verbal and non-verbal communication, social interaction and repetitive behaviours (APA, 2013). The aetiology of ASD is mostly ...
"Where the Nightmares End and Real-Life Begins": Radical Unreliability in Sydney Bridge Upside Down

Clayton, Hamish (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The unreliable narrator is one of the most contested concepts in narrative theory. While critical debates have been heated, they have tended to foreground that the problem of the unreliable narrator is epistemological ...
Whistling in the Dark: an Acoustic Study of Little Spotted Kiwi

Digby, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Song function and evolution are two central topics of avian bioacoustic research. Discerning why birds sing and why they have such diversity of song can yield rich information on behaviour and speciation, and can provide ...
The Wholeheartedness of Becoming: Evidence-Based Inquiry into Practice for Inservice Teacher Educators

Lamont, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Recent trends in the professional learning and development of teachers are moving more towards the activation of learning rather than content delivery. Teachers are expected to take more responsibility for their learning ...
Why are Psychopaths Difficult to Treat? Testing the Two-Component Model for the Treatment of PCL Psychopaths

Daly, Tadhg E. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Psychopathic personality disorder as conceptualised by the family of scales referred to as the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL), is often cited as a specific responsivity characteristic that will interfere with an otherwise ...
Why do people prepare for natural hazards? An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to household preparation

Vinnell, Lauren (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Natural hazards impact millions of people globally and lead to billions of dollars of economic loss each year. New Zealand is one of many countries vulnerable to multiple natural hazards including earthquakes, tsunami, ...
Why do we argue about science? Exploring the psychological antecedents of rejection of science

Kerr, John Richard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Science is recognised and accepted as an important tool for understanding the world in which we live, yet some people hold beliefs that go against the best available scientific evidence. For example, many people believe ...
Why Meaning Does in Fact Matter: An Exploration of Meaning in Life and its Impact on Well-Being

Grouden, Melissa Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Human beings are naturally inclined to search for, and achieve meaning in life as a means of understanding life events, and integrating them into a coherent whole. Although the experience of possessing meaning in life has ...
Why Sing and Dance: an Examination of the Cooperative Effects of Group Synchrony

Reddish, Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The universality and antiquity of music and dance suggest that they may serve some important adaptive function. Why are music and dance cultural universals? One popular theory is that music and dance function to enhance ...
Wildcat or Lion? Inequality, Agency, and the New Chinese Working Class

Lin, Jake (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The study of Chinese labour politics has returned to the centre of scholarly interest as China has increasingly become involved in global production and trade. As the incidence of labour dispute and workers’ strikes continued ...