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Get PDFPublic science policies in Aotearoa New Zealand present an expectation to researchers and educators that their practice will engage with mātauranga Māori.The primary objectives of Science Review are to inform and stimulate. It gives us great pleasure to do just this by giving voice to those who see the enormous potential and significance of mātauranga Māori.The two part issue of Mātauranga and Science in Practice draws together the experiences of Māori, Pākehā and tauiwi scientists, researchers and educators. The issues present a variety of cases that span institutions, disciplines and domains. The collective experience forms a resource that helps us all to better understand how this work can advance Aotearoa NZ’s public knowledge ecosystem.More than 100 people have contributed to this work. The Association of Scientists congratulates all who have contributed to both parts of the special issue and acknowledges the superb effort of guest editors Drs Ocean Mercier and Ann-Marie Jackson especially in the present troubling times of the COVID-19 pandemic.Mātauranga and Science in Practice is a tribute were we, in New Zealand have got thus far in this endeavour.
Hamish Campbell and Allen Petrey for NZAS Counci
Heritage Preservation, Conservation and/or Restoration: Old Government Buildings in the 1990s
Get PDFIn the 1990s, a $25 million project under the management of the Department of Conservation restored the "largest wooden office building in the Southern Hemisphere," converting it into the home of the Victoria University of Wellington School of Law. The restoration project took roughly the same length of time as the original construction. This paper will present the 1990s work on Old Government Buildings as a case study of heritage practice in the 1990s. We will discuss aspects such as the retention of the heritage lift, the reinstatement of "chimneys" using 1990s construction techniques, use of native timbers, and the decisions made on replication, restoration and strengthening that may or may not be made differently today
Non-representable relation algebras from vector spaces
Get PDFExtending a construction of Andreka, Givant, and Nemeti (2019), we construct some finite vector spaces and use them to build finite non-representable relation algebras. They are simple, measurable, and persistently finite, and they validate arbitrary finite sets of equations that are valid in the variety RRA of representable relation algebras. It follows that there is no finitely axiomatisable class of relation algebras that contains RRA and validates every equation that is both valid in RRA and preserved by completions of relation algebras. Consequently, the variety generated by the completions of representable relation algebras is not finitely axiomatisable. This answers a question of Maddux (2018)
Living Among the Northland Māori: Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844–1846.
Get PDFIf Antoine-Marie Garin is remembered today, it’s likely to be in Nelson, where he was Roman Catholic parish priest for very nearly forty years (1850-89). Born in eastern France, near Lyon, in 1810 to a comfortable middle-class family, Garin trained as a priest for his local diocese but after ordination and three years of parish work he joined the new missionary order, the Society of Mary. Marist priests and brothers had already accompanied Bishop Jean-Baptiste Pompallier to Aotearoa in 1838; Garin was one of a number who arrived early in 1841. In late 1843 Garin went to Mangakāhia, to run the Kaipara mission, and it is his time there which is the subject of this book. It is worth noting here that Garin is one of a significant number of Frenchmen and Frenchwomen from around Lyon who were influential in New Zealand Catholicism, from Pompallier himself to Suzanne Aubert, and, indirectly, the founder of the Society of Mary, Jean-Claude Colin. Garin, therefore, dedicated his Mangakāhia mission to St Irenaeus, Hato Irene, as well as to the Holy Rosary, for St Ireneaus was an early second-century bishop of Lyon
Politics of Forgetting: New Zealand, Greece and Britain at War
Get PDFThe conventional account of wartime relations between Greece, New Zealand and Britain is one of unwavering solidarity in the face of appalling odds, and few would question its truth as a general narrative
A review of proposed principles of causal non-monotonic reasoning
Get PDFWithin Non-monotonic Reasoning, numerous principles of causal reasoning have been proposed. Many of these principles have been viewed as desirable in formalisms that reason with causality, and have been widely adopted throughout the literature. We provide a critique of these principles, evaluate their suitability for characterising and formulating causal non-monotonic reasoning, and find that most are unsuitable. Further, we discuss a new approach to causal non-monotonic reasoning motivated by how humans typically reason with causality
How can I get that good grade again? Improving Pasifika student achievement in NCEA with a motivation intervention
Get PDFStudents who are underachieving in secondary school are likely to hold maladaptive motivation orientations that, unless changed, will have a negative impact on their future achievement. In this study 57 students from two schools with large Pasifika populations were offered supplementary teaching and learning opportunities via two different study skills programmes to improve their motivation and achievement. Participants (including 28 Pasifika students) were randomly assigned to either a traditional study skills (TS) or a motivation-enhanced study skills (MS) programme. NCEA results showed that students in the MS intervention attained more credits and showed significantly greater reduction in the negative motivation orientation uncertain control, compared to students in the TS skills programme. Students also reported that their relationships with their teachers and how their teachers communicated with them about learning was important to their motivation and achievement. Based on these findings, recommendations are made for teacher use of internally assessed NCEA standards as the context for interventions designed to enhance student motivation and achievement, in light of proposed changes to NCEA
Complex Challenges in Policy Implementation
Get PDFEfforts to improve education occur in complex landscapes, where policy, research, history, experiences, and communities shape practice in ways that have both intended and unintended outcomes. These landscapes change over time; however, there appear to be several core challenges that persist and which likely influence why it is difficult for policy to improve education in intended, effective and sustainable ways. Drawing on New Zealand and international research, this position paper identifies some of these key challenges and explores possible leverage points to navigate these. These include developing adaptive expertise, engaging key stakeholders in decision making, and developing a learning culture
Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Corporate Form
Get PDFIt has been suggested that the development of decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) will lead to a paradigm shift in the way we perceive businesses. DAOs ostensibly eliminate agency costs due to the absence of a board of directors, automated governance mechanisms and transparency provided by the blockchain upon which the DAO is launched. This article undertakes a comparative analysis between DAOs and corporations and questions whether DAOs really do improve the corporate form. Using a corporate governance and legal realist lens, this article suggests that a number of the purported benefits of DAOs are overly simplified. Moreover, there are several practical and legal obstacles that technological advancements and improved engineering must overcome before DAOs become a viable, mainstream organisational structure. Balancing the inevitable improvement in technology against these significant obstacles, this article predicts an incremental integration of DAOs into society through a hybrid approach, involving interim legal solutions and varying degrees of automation and decentralisation
How to Regulate the Due Diligence Duties of Officers under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Get PDFTo date, no enforcement activity against officers under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) has been reported and methods to achieve compliance also appear to be underdeveloped. In addition to there being no prosecutions against officers for breach of their due diligence duties, there are also no formalised regulatory structures to help officers "self-regulate" effectively in order to comply with their due diligence duties. Instead, it appears that officers have been left mostly to regulate their own behaviour with some guidance from WorkSafe. This leaves a gap in the regulatory landscape of workplace health and safety in New Zealand. Opportunities for developing a unique regulatory structure geared towards regulating the due diligence duties become evident upon an examination of some of the literature on regulation. These opportunities are presented here
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