Wairua and the relationship it has with learning te reo ... - Clear Net

Material from course readers 8 provided to students and used to support
three of the organisations immersion programmes were studied and
categorised according to a “typological analysis” (LeCompte & Preissle
1993:257) based primarily on key words used on the prompt cards and
other ideas that emerged from the data. This also applied to song books, 9
the written rules 10 set out for ideal student and teacher conduct and the
strategic plan, containing the vision and guiding principles.
Transcribed interview material was fed into NVivo, a computer program
designed specifically to assist qualitative researchers to “discover, retain,
review and rethink” (Bazeley & Richards 2000:23) about their data. Key
search words used from the prompt cards provided the framework for a
straightforward way of dealing with the data. With the focus remaining on
analysis, emerging aspects of this theory became apparent as this thesis
was written.
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Course readers from 2002, 2003, and 2004 containing readings on wairua.
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Song books and course readers from 2003 and 2004 with waiata mentioned by participants.
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Rules provided for students in 2002, and student teachers in 2004.
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