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Haʻamo Taha: Tongan Social Workers Network Aotearoa
No full textOverview
• Puipuituʻa: Why was Haʻamo taha
• Kamataʻanga: How did Haʻamo Taha started?
• Uhinga: Why the term Haʻamo Taha ?
• Tefitoʻi moʻoni: Principles of Haʻamo Taha
• Founga: Haʻamo Taha framework
• Tefitoʻi ilo: Philosophical underpinnings of Haʻamo Taha
• Visone: Haʻamo Taha vision
• Taumuʻa: Key objectives
• Palani ki he kahaʻu: Topics of interest from the survey & launch
Tongan social work practitioners, graduates, and students overtime continue to express cultural tensions they experience navigating the diverse fields of social work practice. The cultural tensions that are raised amongst social workers involves issues relating to expectations when working with clients and within organizational structures, community, and society. As a result, six passionate Tongan social workers from education, statutory, women’s health, mental health, Non-Government organisation and schools rallied to support the development of a Tongan ethnic-specific network. The authors used anecdotal evidence from talanoa in the community and practice to design an online survey which identified and captured areas of strengths and needs of social work practice amongst Tongan practitioners, students and those who are affiliated with social work type roles. Tongan social workers, students and community workers were invited to participate in the online survey which consisted of 11 questions. Findings highlighted that it is critical to establish a network that offers a safe space for Tongan social workers to come together, share best practice, network, and have courageous talanoa about issues pertaining to their practice. The findings place emphasis of culture as being central to Tongan social work practice. More importantly, that the Tongan values is pivotal in guiding practice for Tongan social workers. This presentation gifts the Haʻamo Taha principles and framework as a tool for collaboration to harness Tongan social work practice in Aotearoa New Zealand
Post postal: The proposed redevelopment of the vacated NZ Post site in Birkenhead
No full textRESEARCH QUESTION
How can the vacated NZ Post Office and site at the centre of Birkenhead’s Highbury shopping area be reactivated and enlivened through a development involving strategic adaptive reuse of the existing buildings?
ABSTRACT
Highbury, the retail and commercial hub of Birkenhead, has been in a rapid state of development since its conception. From its humble beginnings as a farmland, the district has rapidly evolved into serving as the town centre of Birkenhead, with more development to come. With the population exponentially increasing, questions arise as to how Highbury will provide for its growing community. This project considers two specific buildings located in the centre of Highbury - the now defunct Birkenhead Post Office and the adjacent Telephone Exchange – and how they can be adequately utilised to assist in the support of this community growth.
While the Birkenhead Post Office has served the surrounding community on its Highbury site since the early 1960s, its use has finally ceased and is currently abandoned. The old Telephone Exchange building built in the early 1950s, is still in use; but occupies, with the post office, what has become a prime location for redevelopment and community use. Furthermore, this site and these buildings have existed since Highbury’s early stages of densification, so using adaptive reuse conservation techniques, rather than replacement and site redevelopment, will be beneficial towards honouring the history of Highbury.
Research has focused on the historical and social context of Birkenhead and its proposed future under the Auckland Unitary Plan, to formulate a programme for this project which addresses the anticipated needs of its growing community. It includes both the adaptive reuse of the two existing buildings for public social use, and an associated ‘new-build’ for two residential apartments
Assessing the presence of the granulate ambrosia beetle (Xylosandrus crassiusculus) in selected areas in Auckland
No full textThe granulate ambrosia beetle (GAB) (Xylosandrus crassiusculus) (Fig.1) is a small (up to 3mm), polyphagus, multivoltine. invasive ambrosia beetle, native to Southeast Asia and is now widespread in North, Central and South America, Europe, some Pacific Islands and Australia1,2. Globally it has been detected on 200+ tree and shrub species in over 60 plant families and damage can include stunting, delayed leaf emergence, premature defoliation or even death of trees3. Female beetles drill a network of tunnels (galleries) into the trunks of immature nursery trees and woody shrubs but also adult trees, which are subject to stress, and produce characteristic sawdust “noodles” (Figure 2)3. They live and breed in these galleries feeding on the “symbiotic fungus” they culture3. The beetles also transport pathogenic fungus and tree damage may be due to physical damage from boring &/or pathogenic fungus4. First detected in Blockhouse Bay, Auckland in 2019, other locations were identified in Kumeu, Riverhead and Titirangi
Te Tiriti partnership in action: Walking the talk in tertiary education
No full textBachelor of Social Practice - the embedding of Matauranga Māori
Commitment to treaty based practice
Treaty based practice in action
Critical reflection (Ngā Whakaaro Hurihuringā)
Reference
The house as domestic clinic
No full textInfectious diseases have dramatically affected social behaviour in the past, as is happening now, during the current coronavirus pandemic. But infectious diseases have also altered architecture and urban design on the way to modernism. Tuberculosis acted as a major health threat in the late 19th and early 20th century. Although Robert Koch discovered the Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, the disease continued to kill many thousands of often young people particularly in crowded cities until finally, in 1944, the discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin made medical treatment possible.
In the absence of medication, another ‘tool’ was employed to improve the health of tuberculosis patients: architecture. First it was the sanatorium, later the modernist dwelling that was designed to be hygienic both in functional and in symbolic terms; and, on a larger scale, modernist urban design – the dispersed modernist slab-city. In his 2007 book Light, Air and Openness, Paul Overy has mapped out the contributing factors of this movement which happened in part as an intense collaboration between architects and medical experts: in her 2003 dissertation entitled Neues Bauen and Hygiene, Christina Flötotto has demonstrated the close collaboration between physician Friedrich Wolf and architect Richard Döcker in Stuttgart.
Will architecture possibly change through the current pandemic, and how? In order to be able to speculate about this question, this paper investigates how modernist architects took cues to turn houses into domestic clinics, appearing as sanatorium buildings for everyone in the heyday of this movement, in the 1920s. The paper studies relevant works of two architects: on the one hand Richard Döcker, who through his publication Terrassentyp (‘terrace-type building’) argued explicitly for the link between the sanatorium and the house, and on the other hand Le Corbusier who argued more broadly, however implements sanatorium-like elements even more strongly, particularly by introducing architectural gardens as part of the house
Unitec students create street furniture for an Auckland housing community during COVID
No full textA portion of the undergraduate course required students to individually design street furniture for Auranga’s Village Square. The brief required the students to utilise recycled timber offcuts found within the Auranga housing development, and to laminate the offcuts into sheet materials that could be CNC milled into flatpack components
Asbestos and other hazardous fibrous minerals: Potential exposure pathways and associated health risks
No full textThere are six elongate mineral particles (EMPs) corresponding to specific dimensional and morphological criteria, known as asbestos. Responsible for health issues including asbestosis, and malignant mesothelioma, asbestos has been well researched. Despite this, significant exposure continues to occur throughout the world, potentially affecting 125 million people in the workplace and causing thousands of deaths annually from exposure in homes. However, there are other EMPS, such as fibrous/asbestiform erionite, that are classified as carcinogens and have been linked to cancers in areas where it has been incorporated into local building materials or released into the environment through earthmoving activities. Erionite is a more potent carcinogen than asbestos but as it is seldom used for commercial purposes, exposure pathways have been less well studied. Despite the apparent structural and chemical similarities between asbestos and fibrous erionite, their health risks and exposure pathways are quite different. This article examines the hazards presented by EMPs with a particular focus on fibrous erionite. It includes a discussion of the global locations of erionite and similar hazardous minerals, a comparison of the multiple exposure pathways for asbestos and fibrous erionite, a brief discussion of the confusing nomenclature associated with EMPs, and considerations of increasing global mesothelioma cases
Covid-19: Experience of online learning from accounting courses at Unitec
No full textAIM OF STUDY
The paper is reflection on the teaching and learning practice in Accounting in the first semester of 2020 when New Zealand was in a period of lockdown
The pandemic lockdown in late March 2020 was a rare historic event that moved New Zealand into a mandatory state of lockdown
While many businesses were forced to close their operations entirely, those in the tertiary education sector shifted to online classes and assessments for most of semester one.
Distance learning was no longer an option or supplementary teaching and learning medium but the predominant one.
The paper seeks to employ these reflections as a guide towards identifying distance and online teaching and learning pedagogies as a legitimate mechanism for future accounting educatio
The rugby ball and me: the whakapapa of female rugby in Aotearoa. An oral history project 2021
No full textWhy this project?
• Personal connection
• Timely reflection for RWC 2022
• Share untold stories/tales of wāhine in sport; in diverse role
• Parallel experiences & feeling with all participants
• Strong motivator is the whānau & community connections
• Kaha & mana to persevere
Commissioned by The Ministry of Culture & Heritage: Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho Oral History funding 202
The anti-mandate movement: motorbike helmets and neo-liberalism
Get PDFWhat I am aiming to do in this piece is to connect some threads that I don’t see commonly linked and raise some questions about who benefits from the anti-mandate movement and the potential position of social work in managing our current situation.
THREAD ONE – Ideologies and who benefits
THREAD TWO – Twisting the perception of what is ordinary human nature
THREAD THREE – A metaphor and a concern
THOUGHTS
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
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The anti-vax movement and the anti-mandate movement could very easily be seen as an opportunity to blame individuals for making poor choices. A better and wiser perspective would be to see this kind of social resistance as an unsurprising response to a generation marinated in neoliberal stories of the ability of individuals to make choices despite social context, and a generation of marginalised peoples who quite understandably have very little faith in traditional systems of state health and welfare provision