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On Forms of Justification in Set Theory
Get PDFIn the contemporary philosophy of set theory, discussion of new axiomsthat purport to resolve independence necessitates an explanation of howthey come to bejustified. Ordinarily, justification is divided into two broadkinds:intrinsicjustification relates to how ‘intuitively plausible’ an axiomis, whereasextrinsicjustification supports an axiom by identifying certain‘desirable’ consequences. This paper puts pressure on how this distinctionis formulated and construed. In particular, we argue that the distinction asoften presented is neitherwell-demarcatednor sufficientlyprecise. Instead, wesuggest that the process of justification in set theory should not be thoughtof as neatly divisible in this way, but should rather be understood as a con-ceptually indivisible notion linked to the goal ofexplanation
Making Health Data Work for Maori: attitudes and current challenges
Get PDFThis article explores the experience of health services decision makers using Mäori health data to inform decision making. It draws on selected findings from the second phase of a three-year Health Research Council-funded study and discusses how Mäori health data identification, data analysis and data interpretation processes are being used by decision makers to help to identify the most promising strategies to improve Mäori health. Data is critical to monitoring inequity and has the potential to drive health service change. However, improvement is needed at all steps in the decisionmaking process to better facilitate utilising data to leverage change in Mäori health outcomes
The Misappropriation of the Haka: Are the Current Legal Protections around Mātauranga Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand Sufficient?
Get PDFThis article analyses the protections the New Zealand intellectual property framework provides for the haka and mātauranga Māori. Part II of this article defines the key terms of "misappropriation", "traditional knowledge" and "mātauranga Māori" in order for the reader to fully understand these concepts in an indigenous, and specifically Māori, context. Part III of this article discusses the importance and significance of haka in Māori culture, particularly looking at the history and significance of Ka Mate, the most well-known haka in New Zealand and the world. Examples of different companies, both New Zealand and internationally-owned, using the haka for commercial benefit are analysed to establish whether or not their use of the haka is misappropriation, and if so, the harm this misappropriation has caused Māori. Part IV discusses the current legal protections New Zealand provides for mātauranga Māori and whether they sufficiently protect the haka and mātauranga Māori generally. It will assess the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Act 2014 as a case study. Part V outlines the limitations of the intellectual framework. Part VI of this article looks to what legal protections would be sufficient to protect against the misappropriation of the haka and mātauranga Māori generally
Glass ceilings in New Zealand universities: Inequities in Māori and Pacific promotions and earnings
Get PDF"The mural's value far outstripped the building's worth": art, architecture and protest at Aniwaniwa
Get PDFJohn Scott's Āniwaniwa Visitor Centre is lucky to get a mention in many of the reports and rememberings of the removal of Colin McCahon's Urewera Mural by Tūhoe activist Te Kaha in 1997. The focus at the time, and even in subsequent retellings, was on the artwork and the personalities involved (including McCahon himself despite dying ten years before the removal). Even when discussed in the context of the performance of protest (or cultural activism as some would have it), the contribution of architecture to this episode is either ignored or downplayed (or not understood). This paper explores the role that architecture played in the 1997 removal and subsequent return of McCahon's mural. It builds on earlier research into how protests played out architecturally in the 1880s (Parihaka) and 1980s (Waitangi), primarily through media reports of the protest act, but also looking at how this has been treated by academic literature. While John Scott's Visitor Centre was the initial physical site of the act of protest, there are a number of spaces at play (the Urewera itself, the Auckland City Art Gallery where the mural reappears, and the undisclosed location where the mural was hidden). The relationships between these spaces reinforce the performance of protest - providing an architectural landscape to New Zealand's most famous art heist
The Gorse Blooms Pale - Dan Davin’s Southland Stories
Get PDFThese two new collections of Dan Davin’s short fiction have a friendly, nostalgic appearance. With matching gloss white hardback covers, vigorous title fonts, and bright chunky artwork by Jenny Cooper, they are faintly reminiscent of New Zealand school journals; my twelve-year-old son, spotting them on the table beside me, assumed they were holiday reading I had picked up on his behalf. Between the covers, however, they are revealed to be substantial, many-faceted works that provide, along with the stories, a wealth of meticulously organised and annotated detail that richly rewards the concentrated reader
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction Vol. 1 1919 - 1959. Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land, Vol. 2. 1960 - 1987
Get PDFColin McCahon remains an inescapable figure in the arts discourse of Aotearoa New Zealand. His long-standing reputation as our greatest painter, though frequently disputed, continues to cast its shadow over the landscape of both art writing and display
Constructing the problem of initial teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand: policy formation and risk, 2010-2018
Get PDFThis paper reports findings from an interpretive policy and discourse analysis of documents informing contemporary initial teacher education (ITE) policy development in Aotearoa New Zealand. The study first asks: what is the problem of teacher education as constituted in policy and associated documents in the period 2010-2018? We then compare the problems, suggested solutions, and recent evidence about the work of teacher education in New Zealand, to discuss the policy discourse, and theorise about the potential utility of solutions to address the problems raised. Our comparative analysis of the problems of ITE and proposed policy solutions with research evidence of teacher education work underscores the imperative of engagement with local and relevant evidence-based knowledge as a basis for informed policy decision making.
 
Positioning Children Citizens: Exploring Discourses in Early Childhood Curricula in China and Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDF Positioning young children as citizens, now rather than as citizens in waiting, is an emerging discourse in early childhood education internationally. Differing discourses related to young children and early childhood reveal various ideas of children as citizens, and what their citizenship status, practice and education can be. This paper analyses the national early childhood education (ECE) curricula of China and Aotearoa New Zealand for the purpose of understanding how children are constructed as citizens within such policy discourses. Discourse analysis is employed in this study as a methodological approach for understanding the subjectivities of young children and exploring the meanings of young children’s citizenship in both countries. Based on Foucault’s theory of governmentality, this paper ultimately argues that young children’s citizenship in contemporary ECE curricula in China and New Zealand is a largely neoliberal construction. However, emerging positionings shape differing possibilities for citizenship education for young children in each of these countries
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