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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Pakeha"”.
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Growing up or growing down: Pakeha women's memories of adolescence
… the memories of adolescent experiences of five Pakeha women who went to school together in the 1960’s. The study used memory-work, an approach which engages a group of co-researchers in writing and analysing memories of their earlier lives. Feminist relational psychologists, such as Brown and …
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Images of Pakeha-Māori: A Study of the Representation of Pakeha-Māori by Historians of New Zealand From Arthur Thomson (1859) to James Belich (1996)
This thesis investigates how Pakeha-Māori have been represented in New Zealand non-fiction writing during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chronological and textual boundaries range from Arthur Thomson's seminal history The Story of New Zealand (1859) to James Belich's Making Peoples …
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Processes of Pakeha change in response to the Treaty of Waitangi
… of social change fall silent. The dominant Pakeha group in Aotearoa New Zealand has used discourses of benign colonisation and harmonious race relations to resist 165 years of communication from indigenous Māori about their oppression and a dishonoured treaty for settlement. My research …
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“Going native”: a case study of cultural appropriation in a settler society, with particular reference to the activities of Johannes Andersen in New Zealand during the first half of the twentieth century
… New Zealander, Andersen, like other Pakeha around 1900, turned to Maori subjects for prose, verse, and art. His knowledge of Maori culture was derived from books, not from contact with Maori people. After the Great War, encouraged by the prominent ethnologist Elsdon Best, and with the …
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At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900
… the result of an unwillingness on the part of Pakeha academics to study people who were recast as colonisers following the rise of postcolonial discourses from the 1970s, as well as the Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement process which has re-constituted the Maori-Pakeha relationship as a …
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The development of kaupapa Maori : theory and praxis
… response to the reproduction of state: dominant: Pakeha interests both 'within' and 'through' schooling and education. The arguments in this thesis position 'Kaupapa Maori' as a theory and transformative praxis and suggests that these new formations of resistance mark a significant shift within …
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Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand
… of Homebrew and @Peace, a mix of Polynesian and Pakeha (people of European descent), employ methods of decolonization theory through the use of storytelling and focus on indigenous values. In a country that has adopted the neoliberal beliefs that competition drives human relations, and redefines …
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Voices on the margins: the role of New Zealand cinema in the construction of national and cultural identity
… that its creative personnel consists mostly of Pakeha New Zealanders, while the film features virtually no Pakeha characters. The expectation from the outset then is that this film can tell us much not only about the workings of the film industry in New Zealand, but also about national identity …
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Perceptions, expectations and interactions: a study of teachers and pupils in five ethnically mixed primary classrooms
… pupils’ ability to do well at school. Girls and Pakeha pupils were seen as being closer to the ideal pupil stereotype than boys or Polynesian pupils, and for Polynesian pupils this was reflected in lower teacher expectations. Teacher expectations tended to be borne out by standardized achievement …
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Disclosure : the development of a classification system describing the historical design elements of women's corsets (1870-1911) in the absence of an exhibition : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Design (Fashion), Massey University
… under documented area of the dress history of Pakeha women in Victorian and Edwardian New Zealand. The research model and system of identifying, classifying and cataloguing is not exclusive to corset research, it could be modified and applied to other design-based research involving historic …
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Mātauranga Tūhoe: the centrality of Mātauranga-a-iwi to Māori education.
… include: iwi interactions (chapter 6), Pakeha and Crown engagements (chapter 7), with more recent economic realities (chapter 4), and education (chapter 5). The key concepts of mātauranga Māori, kaupapa Māori theory, and mātauranga-a-iwi, as well as being grounded in a 'real', …
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The ‘Marae on Paper’: The Meeting House in the Anglophone Fiction of the Maori Renaissance
… and political relationship between the Maori and Pakeha [New Zealanders of European descent] communities. This dissertation considers the work of four Maori writers who address these themes: Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme and Alan Duff. More specifically, it explores the role of the …
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Transparencies: New Zealand from 1953 to 1974 through the slide photography of Gladys Cunningham
… omissions represent a lack of dialogue between Pakeha and Maori. In New Zealand and overseas, slide photography was the popular medium for recording extraordinary family events during the 1950 and 1960s. Through an analysis of memory, leisure and photography, this study examines how Gladys’s …
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Bringing home the body: Bi/multi racial Maori women's hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… nation, the social construction of Maori and Pakeha cultural groups and the race relations that developed through the discursive practices of colonialism Through a study of key texts on the history of New Zealand and dominant articulations describing Maori nationalists' efforts to invoke …
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Challenges Faced – Implications for Policy: The Everyday Lives of Eastern European Women in New Zealand
… not mind reminding different from the dominant Pakeha culture. Finally, for migrant studies a less common research design was applied by using the Kaupapa Māori framework. This philosophy proposes a research process that empowers immigrants to voice their needs and strengthen them as agents of …
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New Zealand army chaplains at war : 2 NZEF 1939 - 1945
… the tohunga of pre-Christian times. Unlike their Pakeha (European) associates. Maori chaplains had access to individuals of influence within New Zealand Maori politics, a factor which was of particular significance. Almost all chaplains had a belief in the natural justice of World War Two and this …
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Analysis of Chinese travel blogs of New Zealand
… and had a highly developed society with a “Pakeha” culture. The research also indicated that Chinese cultural norms played an important role in the process of decision making, perception formation and interpretation. These norms included the desire of harmony, Li, Junzi Aspiration, and a …
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Living with uncertainty: A grounded theory of psychiatric stigma when seeking or maintaining employment
… in age from 20-59 years. There were 11 Maori, 18 Pakeha and 2 Pacific Islanders. At the time of this study they were all seeking or maintaining employment. Participants completed multiple open-ended interviews over a two year period. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using Glaser’s …
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Ethical pesticide policy : beyond risk assessment
… 50 percent women/50 percent men, and 50 percent pakeha/50 percent Maori, to reflect firstly the gender differences in the acceptability of risks from pesticides, and secondly the bicultural nature of New Zealand as afforded by the nation's founding legal document, the Treaty of Waitangi.
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