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Taking Charge After Stroke: A novel, community-based intervention to improve the lives of people with stroke

Fu, Vivian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Background and aims: Stroke is the third leading cause of disability worldwide. Despite the recent development of hyper-acute therapies for stroke, outcomes for people with stroke and types of rehabilitation interventions ...
Taking Up the Practice: Conversion and Buddhist Identity in New Zealand

Kemp, Hugh P (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

In a similar fashion to other Western nations, Buddhism is gaining traction in New Zealand. This thesis seeks to answer the question "why do New Zealanders convert to Buddhism?" Implicit within the question is "how do New ...
Tamana: a Study of a Reef Island Community

Lawrence, Roger James (Victoria University of Wellington, 1984)

This thesis is an exploration of the factors which give the tiny reef island of Tamana, in what is today the nation of Kiribati, its particular character. The research falls into three main sections. The first reviews the ...
Tama Samoa Stories: Experiences and Perceptions of Identity, Belonging and Future Aspirations at Secondary School

Rimoni, Fuapepe (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis investigates the experiences of twelve strong, articulate and thoughtful tama Samoa (Samoan boys) through their participation in secondary schools and lives outside the classroom and through the stories of ...
Tangible Lighting Controls

Dugar, Amardeep Mohanlal (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

'Tangible lighting controls' is used as an umbrella term to describe lighting control systems that are easy to understand and pleasurable to use by end-users. The crucial question posed is, what is the nature of interface ...
Tarawera Volcanic Complex

Cole, James William (Victoria University of Wellington, 1966)

The Tarawera Volcanic Complex is situated on the south eastern side of the Okataina Volcanic Centre, and is an association of rhyolite domes, flows and tephra, and basalt scoria. Twelve rhyolite domes are described, and ...
Targeted BRAF inhibitors: Immunological effects and combination with immunotherapy

Cameron, Alanna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Metastatic melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer, associated with a poor prognosis, and the incidence worldwide is increasing. Recently, selective mutant BRAF inhibitors and checkpoint blockade immunotherapy ...
Targeting Families' Assistance: Evaluating Family and Employment Tax Credits in New Zealand's Tax-Benefit System

Nolan, Patrick John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

In 2004 the Labour-led government announced a series of tax-benefit reforms (the Working for Families reforms) that will account for an estimated $1.17 billion per-annum of new spending when fully implemented by 1 April ...
Task-Based Interaction Among Adult Learners of English and Its Role in Second Language Development

Newton, Jonathan Mark (Victoria University of Wellington, 1993)

The role of classroom interaction in second language acquisition (SLA) has been the subject of extensive research in recent years. The purpose of this study was to investigate the claimed superiority of communication tasks ...
Tasks in action in Vietnamese EFL high school classrooms: The role of rehearsal and performance in teaching and learning through oral tasks

Nguyen, Thi Bao Trang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has attracted considerable attention in research on language teaching and learning. Numerous publications have made a case for TBLT and the role of tasks in learning. TBLT has been ...
Tātai Kōrero i Ngaro, Tātai Kōrero e Rangona: Legitimation and the Learning of Curriculum Mathematics in an Indigenous Māori School

Tweed, Brian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

In this thesis, the learning of conventional curriculum mathematics in indigenous Māori schools is conceptualised as a site of struggle within the wider context of a national New Zealand education system. For example, the ...
Tauhi Vā Māfana: Tongan leadership and culture in the New Zealand Public Service

Paea, Mele Katea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

How does knowledge of cultural practices help us think differently about how leadership is understood and practised in a particular context? This thesis presents a Tongan leadership model from a Tongan perspective. It is ...
Tau mai e Kapiti te whare wananga o ia, o te nui, o te wehi, o te toa: Reclaiming early Raukawa-Toarangatira writing from Otaki

Loader, Arini May (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Maori writing in the nineteenth-century was prolific. Maori writers worked in multiple genres including, but not limited to biography, correspondence, historical narrative, political response, memoir and song composition. ...
A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Dracophyllum Labill. (Ericaceae)

Venter, Stephanus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

In recent years the New Zealand biogeographic paradigm has shifted from 'Moa's Ark' (Bellamy et al. 1990) to the view that most biota has dispersed here in the lastÃ Ã Â± 10 My (Fleming 1975, Pole 1994, McGlone et al. ...
The taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the New Zealand Thomisidae (Arachnida: Araneae)

Sirvid, Phil J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The New Zealand Thomisidae (crab spiders) are represented in New Zealand by two subfamilies (Stephanopinae and Thomisinae) and were used as a model group to test two competing theories on the origins of the New Zealand ...
Tax, transfers, and income inequality in New Zealand during 1988-2013

Nolan, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This dissertation investigates the role tax and transfer policy changes played in the evolution of New Zealand disposable income inequality between 1988 and 2013. Across ﬁve papers, the key changes in tax and transfer ...
Teacher-Implemented Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instruction for Story Writing with Year Two Students in New Zealand

Finlayson, Kristen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Writing is a complex skill and many students struggle to learn to write. Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) for writing is an intervention strategy that can increase students’ writing performance. However, there ...
Teacher Knowledges, Classroom Realities: Implementing Sociocultural Science in New Zealand Year 7 and 8 Classrooms

Anderson, Dayle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Lack of science content knowledge has often been suggested as underpinning primary teachers' reluctance to teach science or to provide limited learning opportunities when doing so. Understanding better the full range ...
Teacher Motivation Perceptions of Indigenous Stakeholders in the Maldives

Hasan, Abdul Raheem (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Teachers form the largest investment in a school and can instrumentally exert the strongest direct influence on student outcomes. A school is as good as its teachers, and hence retention of successful teachers is imperative. ...
Teacher practice in primary mathematics classrooms: A story of positioning

Tait-McCutcheon, Sandra Lynne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The past twenty-five years have seen a dramatic increase in the interest given to dialogue between teachers and students, and students and students during mathematics teaching and learning. This interest is evident within ...