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Band in a bubble: I've been around
Get PDFI've Been Around (song)
Collaborative Composition - Music and Lyrics.
BAND IN A BUBBLE is a real time observational workshop, where a group of musicians from around New Zealand gather together for the first time at Wintec in Hamilton to compose, record and perform a new collection of songs.
Inspired by a project that involved Australian band REGURGITATOR in Melbourne in 2004, this project is the brainchild of Wintec Music Department Lecturer, Kent Macpherson. The initial idea from was conceptually inspired by biospheres, and a desire to explore the juxtaposition between the insular artistic recording process, and the extroverted performer. To look through this process at how that might impact the creative mindset.
BAND IN A BUBBLE at SPARK festival involves a number of performers from around New Zealand including: Kent Macpherson, David Sidwell, John Egenes, Reuben Bradley, Jeremy Mayall, Megan Berry, Nick Braae and Brooke Baker, as the core performers. This collaboration will be the first for this ensemble, so this experience will also include a realtime exploration of how to approach a creative collaboration from the beginning.
The WIntec wharenui has been carefully selected as the venue for this project for a number of reasons. Most notably, the building has many windows which provide a certain ‘transparency’ to the actual process. The wharenui is also very central to the Wintec campus, both in a physical and spiritual sense.
Most involved are also educators, as well as musicians, so the inclusion of this workshop as part of the SPARK festival will ideally facilitate an educational experience for the students and wider community. The intention is to build an environment that is a creatively fulfilling one for the people directly involved
Linking the City exhibition: Final stage [photograph]
No full textHamilton’s ring road is almost complete. When Wairere Drive reaches Cobham Drive, the city will have a 24 kilometre circuit that not only helps the flow of traffic, but also connects the present to the past. More than six decades in the making, the story of Hamilton's ring road includes two major bridge openings, a political stoush that made the front page of the Waikato Times, the preservation of an historic green belt, and award-winning use of social media to engage with the public. This multimedia exhibition tells the story so far
The role beliefs about language use play in the social construction of the EFL classroom
No full textThis thesis presents an examination of the beliefs that non-native English speaker teachers had about using the first language (L1) and target language (TL) when teaching English, and how these beliefs influenced the social construction of the language classroom. The central idea for the thesis arose during the author’s time as a teacher trainer in South Korea. During this time, it was noticed that despite government mandates supporting an English only approach to English learning, teachers were still reluctant to exclude their L1 completely. To investigate why teachers were resisting government mandates, beliefs were explored via a two-step series of interviews which separated the development of beliefs into discrete stages to reveal the different influences acting on the formation of these beliefs. The stages were divided into initial assumptions about language use, tentative attitudes, and then firmer beliefs. Important influences that acted upon the participants included the language use of their own language teachers, when they attended training courses which espoused L1 exclusion theories, the influence of students in the classroom, as well as institutional influences. Once these beliefs were revealed, they were then linked to the classroom actions of the participants via an analysis of their classroom language use. This analysis employed a theoretical framework which had Basil Bernstein’s sociological theories of pedagogic discourse at its core. This framework revealed how teachers’ beliefs influenced the recontextualization of teaching materials into the classroom, changing the nature of the original social and power relations from the appropriated discourse with new, virtual-social and power relations of the classroom. It established that participants with strong beliefs about maximizing English exposure often positioned students so that they had less opportunity to assist in the co-construction of the learning environment compared to participants who valued a larger role for the L1
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research
No full textEditorial: Preparing nurses for the future workforce
The 2016 New Zealand Health Strategy emphasises the need for health services that meet new population health challenges, where people are living longer with more complex and chronic conditions. As the largest demographic in the health workforce, nurses are the professional group who are most able to do more to meet diverse population health needs. Realising this vision for the profession’s future contribution to new models of care requires a sound professional knowledge and evidence base that enables nursing to safely work to the full extent of their scope of practice (MOH, 2017). The environments in which nurses practice are undergoing significant changes, including a stronger emphasis on consumer centred care, more flexible team focused models of health and social care, and the increasing use of new health technologies at the interface of care. Nurses are already developing more specialist and expanded roles within collaborative care teams and will be integral to the provision of new and innovative health care approaches (NCNZ, 2017). The papers in this issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing Research address some key issues in undergraduate education, technological solutions for education and practice, as well as some contemporary issues that remain challenging for nurses in practice including workplace violence and managing immunisation declines.
Educating nurses for the future workforce
As the largest professional group in the health workforce, who often have more sustained contact with health consumers, nurses are well placed to contribute to the reduction of smoking prevalence, and goal of a Smokefree New Zealand by 2025 (MOH, 2015). However, nurses’ own smoking behaviours may negatively influence how they provide support for smoking cessation to health consumers. Walker and Willis explore the prevalence of smoking among New Zealand nursing students, suggesting that while smoking rates among younger students are decreasing, there is a continued higher incidence of smoking in older student groups. As the health professionals of the future, more needs to be done to help nurses to quit while they are students. A further theme in educating nurses for the future health workforce is the idea that compassion is a normative attribute for health professionals. Compassion is integral to the nursing profession’s moral compass; it is an essential element of nurses’ capacity to recognise and empathise with the vulnerability of people experiencing illness and other life events. And yet, compassion is not necessarily visible as a concept in undergraduate nursing curricula. Vick, Dannenfeldt and Shaw investigate whether students beginning health care studies have compassionate attributes. Their findings show that students in the study sample entered undergraduate nursing, midwifery and social work programmes with attributes of compassion including kindness and common humanity. These researchers suggest that educators should work to reinforce the values, hopes and aspirations that bring students into helping professions.
Technology and health care of the future
Innovative approaches using new technologies is a key factor driving change in the delivery of health care, influencing how nurses learn, and communicate and interact with health consumers (MOH, 2016). Briscoe, Mackay and Harding explore whether the use of simulation adds value in preparing student nurses for situations they may encounter during clinical practice experiences. Simulation refers to the use of technology and other learning strategies in creating life-like client situations, where students can safely engage in learning situations to reflect on and modify practice, without the risk of making errors in the care of actual health consumers. The findings of this study suggest that simulation adds value to learning in supporting student nurses to build confidence, knowledge and skills for clinical practice. New technologies also create innovative ways of supporting health consumers through technological solutions, including electronic devices to support care delivery. Hendry and Prislesky investigate the logistics and acceptability of an Electronic Medication Dispenser (EMD) for health consumers within a home-based medication management service. The EMD acts as a substitute for face-to-face in home visits by community service staff, to remind elderly clients to take their medication on time. The findings of this study suggest that using the EMD is a viable option that promotes more independence for clients who met the specific inclusion criteria.
Contemporary issues in practice
Nurses work in partnership with health consumers and their families, whānau and communities to promote and protect their wellbeing. Respect for health consumers is a central value for nurses in providing safe and competent care (NCNZ, 2012). However, violence toward nurses in the workplace is causing increasing concern regarding the physical and emotional impacts on nurses and potential consequences for the quality of care nurses can provide. Craig, Meyer and Marshall examine registered nurses’ experience of aggression and violence within an acute hospital setting and explore the impact that aggression management training has had on their ability to effectively manage aggressive and violent behaviour in the workplace. A further contemporary issue included in the selection of papers for this issue involves nursing management of immunisation declines. While immunisation is one of the most effective interventions in preventing communicable diseases in childhood, respect for the decisions health consumers make about whether to immunise their children is an important value for nurses working in primary care. However, ensuring that health consumers have the best opportunity to make informed decisions about immunisation is also a key nursing responsibility. The study by Marugeesh, Warren and Greaves interviewed nurses working in primary care, to explore how practices managed parents and caregivers wanting to decline childhood immunisations.
This edition of Kai Tiaki Nursing Research also includes a research brief on an innovative idea for a café in an aged care residential facility. The participants in this study related how the café fostered and enhanced social opportunities for the residents. Staff also reported on the value of being able to engage with residents and their families in both social and work related roles.
References
MOH. (2017). Nursing leadership narrative for change. Retrieved 28.08.2017 from http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/nursing/nursing-leadership/nursing-leadership-narrative-change
MOH. (2016). New Zealand Health Strategy: Future direction. Retrieved from http://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/new-zealand-health-strategy-futuredirection-2016-apr16.pdf
MOH. (2015). Smokefree 2025. Retrieved 28.08.2017 from http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-wellness/tobacco-control/smokefree-2025
NCNZ. (2017). Strategic plan 2017-2022. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/content/download/1230/4656/file/J001831%20-%20NCNZ%20%20Strategic%20Plan%202017-2022%20P3.pdf
NCNZ. (2012). Code of conduct for nurses. Wellingto
"Comparative Degrees of Narration" exhibition curated by Ding Fenqi at the Xi'an Art Museum in China.
No full textThis exhibition is a development of a cultural and artistic exchange project that was started at the Blue Roof Museum in Chengdu last year. The work from the Wintec artists explores the broad idea of ecology – with a particular focus on water. It is a mixed media exhibition with painting, sculpture, photography, video, sound, and installation. The Xi’an artists' work has been curated by Ding Fenqi (who also curated the Chengdu artists' work at Blue Roof) and he has given the overall show the title of 'Comparative Degrees of Narration' – which focussed on exploring the cultural dialogue between work created in New Zealand and work created in China
How L1 acceptance affects the social construction of the language classroom
Get PDFThis presentation examines EFL teachers’ language practices through a sociological lens to highlight the need to embrace a more inclusive approach to L1 and TL use in such contexts. It proposes that maximising English exposure can create a restrictive classroom atmosphere that makes it difficult for students to participate effectively. Via the use of semi-structured interviews and classroom observations, it links beliefs teachers have about first language and target language use to classroom actions. Bernstein’s notions of classification and framing show how students can become alienated from the learning process. Beliefs about English exposure may serve to maintain the socio-economic status quo rather than facilitating second language acquisition, which is intricately linked to social and economic success in countries where English is not the first language. Suggestions for what teachers can do in order to avoid the consequences of L1 exclusion are given and linked to the more inclusive translanguaging approach as a way forward for teachers, especially within EFL context
Tracing sources of cadmium in agricultural soils using cadmium stable isotopes
Get PDFThe application of phosphate fertilizers has, on a global
basis, resulted in long-term accumulation of cadmium (Cd) in agricultural soils [1]. While this accumulation has led to concern over potential environmental consequences, we currently lack a viable tool to track fertilizer-
derived Cd in terrestrial environments. In 1997, the main source of phosphate fertilizers in New Zealand (NZ) was changed from Nauru to a mixed product sourced from other phosphorites with lower concentrations of Cd. Around the same time, Cd accumulation in a 66-year-long field trial (Winchmore Farm, South Island, NZ) showed an apparent plateau [2]. In this study, Cd isotope ratios (ɛ114/110Cd) were used to trace Cd sources in Winchmore soil and determine the cause of this plateau. The ɛ114/110Cd was measured in archived phosphate fertilizer, phosphorite and topsoil (0-7.5 cm) samples from Winchmore. The ɛ114/110Cd of fertilized topsoils and fertilizers was distinct from control (unfertilized) subsoils by around +0.6‰. Bayesian isotope modelling using pre- and post-2000 fertilizers and control soil as the endmembers, confirmed the dominant contribution of Cd is from pre-2000 fertilizers (ɛ114/110Cd=2.48±0.37) with
signature comparable to source rocks (ɛ114/110Cd=2.19± 0.39) but distinct from control subsoil (ɛ114/110Cd=-3.33
±0.41). The decline in Cd concentration after 2000 followed the reduction in fertilizer Cd concentration.
The ɛ114/110Cd of soil remained quite constant following
the source change, confirming that soil Cd represents the historical burden of Cd (originating from Nauru phosphorites) and concurrent applications of fertilizer are not resulting in further accumulation of Cd
Food for finality: feeding the bereaved and ‘feasting’ the dead
Get PDFWhile death is a taboo subject in most cultures, and surrounded by practices of prayer and purification, it is surprisingly often ritualized through the sharing of food or drink, or both. This article will consider some mythological and religious sources for connections between food and death. Then it will take a cross section of New Zealand ethnic cultures: Māori, Pakeha (European), Pacific, and Asian, and reflect on the symbolism and customs that are involved in the sharing of, or abstinence from, food,
when commemorating the dead. Following on from Fischer’s model of the ‘five P’s’ of ritual analysis, namely performance, persons, period, paraphernalia and place (1996: 57-8), consideration will be given to similarities, differences, and matters of etiquette and faith
The relationship between maturation and athletic motor skills in youth males
Get PDFThe influence of maturation on talent identification and development is often overlooked. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between maturity offset and athletic motor skills and differences between pre-PHV, circa-PHV and post-PHV males
Exhibition review: 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Art New Zealand 164
No full textExhibition review: 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, 5 September - 12 November 2017, published in Art New Zealand No. 164, Summer 2017-18, p. 44