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The impact of Covid-19 on the lifestyle of tertiary students
No full textThe Covid-19 pandemic altered people’s life dramatically worldwide with major concerns of economic, political, scientific, and public health. The impact on the lifestyle behavior of the young generation was larger than anticipated. To understand better about the influence factors on the lifestyle of tertiary students in a NZ polytechnic due to Covid-19 pandemic and the correlations, a questionnaire was administrated online by SurveyMonkey to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on: life overall; study time and the reasons for changing; stress level; living conditions; eating patterns; choice of food; physical activity level; social activities; and sleep time. Data were analysed by descriptive statistics, frequency, and correlations to explore the patterns of the influences and the impact of Covid-19. The results showed that the extent of impact of Covid-19 on students’ life in general was 3.8 (from 0: not at all to 5: a lot). The main reasons, for students who either needed an extension or time-off, or changed to part-time study, were increased stress level (63%), financial reasons (16%), and family responsibilities (14%). For the comparison aspects (prior vs post-Covid-19 lockdown), meaningful differences were observed with physical activity level (3.26 vs 2.50) (from 1: very light to 5: very active); and the importance of factor that influenced choice of food: convenience (3.62 vs 3.41), nutrition value (3.65 vs 3.50) (from 1: very less important to 5: very important). Students were anxious because of fear of infection, lacked physical exercise due to lockdown, and were having trouble in sleeping. The results of the study would provide useful information on the impact on daily life for tertiary students in pandemic times. The research findings would inform health professionals of these influences for appropriate policy decision and public health practice to promote a healthy lifestyle during a pandemic
The early sport and play experiences of elite New Zealand hockey players from rural and regional communities: A qualitative descriptive study
No full textThe foundation of an athlete’s development is formed through their early developmental experiences. Thus, in this study we explored the early sport and play experiences of elite New Zealand hockey players from rural and regional communities. In our examination of how smaller communities contribute to the development of New Zealand’s top athletes, this research has a particular focus on the athletes’ early sport and play experiences and the influence of people around them during their growth and development. In this qualitative descriptive study, we employed semi-structured interviews to gather data from eight current and former elite New Zealand hockey players. The study’s findings contribute to the ongoing debate regarding whether early specialisation positively or negatively influences young athletes’ development. Furthermore, it provides evidence supporting the benefits of a developmental and delayed specialisation pathway to elite performance. Surrounded by a physical, social, and cultural environment that supported freedom and responsibility alongside unstructured, outdoor, risky play experiences, the participants of this study benefited from their early developmental experiences, which supported their pathways to elite level
Churches in the clouds: Running a Pacific Island church online
No full textWhen the church started using the website and the zoom platform as their new church in the clouds (fale lotu he ope) the comment was made by the leading minister that this new church in the clouds is symbolic of the reality that it brings us a little closer to God in the heavens.
Wile the comment was made in jest, there is much evidence to suggest that there is some truth and merit behind the transition.
After all, the church is a relative late comer in this regard and education (University of the South Pacific), retail and communication have made this same transition without the prompt of a pandemic
Drone acquired imagery for characterising ecological restoration areas in Northland
No full textAIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Develop methodologies for effective use of drone to produce:
Baseline maps of vegetation for ecological restoration
Processes to characterise different classes of plants and or ground cover
Provide videos and photographs of the indigenous forest areas and remarkable landscapes for story tellin
Nodal strategies for a sustainable architectural education
No full textThe inescapable background to teaching and studying architecture today is an unprecedented climate crisis, particularly in the context of teaching sustainability. In order to bring architectural education and practice up to speed with the current imperative to create a truly sustainable future, educators must explore new strategies for training future architects. This paper examines teaching and learning methods employed in sustainability courses and projects at Unitec School of Architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past seven years. The findings, together with reflections on the fundamental principles needed to teach sustainability in an architectural context, have been synthesised into four nodal strategies to inform future teaching and learning. The nodal strategies have the potential to inform not only further specific courses on sustainability but also a more sustainable architectural curriculum
Keynote Speech 4: Cooling is the new heating: NZ’s self-denial.
No full textAs the climate warms, we use more electricity for cooling, causing more carbon emissions, causing the climate to warm further causing the use of more electricity for cooling and so on. This presentation looks at past and recent policies of energy efficiency for the cooling of buildings and asks the difficult questions of why it took almost 30 years to question our energy efficiency standards; why does NZ have some of the lowest energy efficiency standards in the OECD; why do we have no specific data on energy used for cooling in NZ; why do we have some of the highest electricity prices in OECD; why are households in fuel poverty subsidizing the cost of cooling commercial buildings? Why do current policies show little respect to our climate emergency?
Building Codes for Commercial Buildings
Commercial buildings actual cooling demand
New Zealand’s Institutions
“Stifling Innovation”
Why there is no cost incentive to improve standards for commercial building
The management of aged care clinical experience for New Zealand student nurses
No full textFunding: MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowship/Te Apārangi Royal Society
A collaborative research project between 13 New Zealand polytechnic institutes offering nursing programmes
Setting the scene in NZ
The different aspects of the aged care curriculum
Where do NZ polytechnic students gain aged care clinical experience?
What educational experiences are provided in aged care?
At what stage of nursing education does this happen?
Most NZ polytechnic nurses learn to care for older adults in an aged residential care (ARC) facility in year one.
Closing comments as we move to a NZ-wide approac
Manaaki mauri: Māori perspectives of the success of ecological restoration
No full textRESEARCH QUESTIONS:
How do we reconcile the aspirations of communities involved in ecological restoration projects with measures and expectations of restoration success identified by ecological science or ‘governing’ stakeholders?
What is the role of Mātauranga Māori (Māori world view,perspectives and cultural practices) with respect to ecological restoration?
• what taonga (valued resources) are being restored, or enhanced, through the restoration activity?
• what benefits are expected as a result of the restoration activity?
• what indicators identify the success of the restoration activity
Inquiring about cultural components of early childhood education
No full textCulture and diversity are familiar yet challenging concepts for early childhood kaiako (teachers). This is a background paper to stimulate thoughts and queries around cultural components in early childhood environments. The author presents findings from a completed research that supports culturally responsive practices within the early childhood teacher education context. The completed research applies a Teaching as Inquiry model to formulate queries for the lecturers. The author then proposes a future research project within the early childhood education context to explore the components of culture. Under a sociocultural research framework, the proposed research aims to collect data from a range of early childhood settings in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Convenience sampling will be used to select willing centres from the initial teacher education (ITE) providers’ database. With the collected data, the proposed study is aimed at enabling participants to develop a reusable reflection model for early childhood kaiako who seek to embrace culturally relevant pedagogy. In support of the proposal, the author theoretically applies a Teaching as Inquiry model to selected questions for reflection listed in Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. The discussion may extract thoughts to help kaiako to formulate focus queries, learning queries and teaching queries within the early childhood education environment
People of the city: Observing but also being observed
No full textRESEARCH QUESTION
How can a sense of public life be enhanced through architecture?
ABSTRACT
Public urban space has always been the essential element to consider in creating opportunities for socialising and allowing people to gather in cities. An architecture creating a place of public life through a design of a building and a public outdoor space will become evident through the development of this project. The project argues that education for the younger generation is needed. A place that can combine the functions of education and socialising is lacking in the centre of Henderson, as education will act as a crucial part of town growth in various ways. An educational space with a strong sense of historical identity and a connection with the outdoor space close to one of the town centre’s two streams was chosen for the project site. The building provides many different cultural functions to attract people with various interests to the building and its external spaces. Jan Gehl’s theory of public spaces from his study of “Life between Buildings” was identified as the source of ideas that, in the process of social life in an urban environment, people attract people into a city’s meeting arenas. The project’s intent is based on the sense of public life through architecture in the Henderson town centre. A close analysis of the background of local history and businesses has been the cornerstone most useful for developing the proposed building's forms, internal organisation, and functions.
People are attracted to exhibitions and arts, and a place for these functions will be made visible within the building to ensure that these exhibition spaces advertise themselves to the people passing by