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Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFWith an ensemble of experts, Maria Bargh and Julie L. MacArthur have done a timely service to the communities of academic research, teaching-and-learning, and public policymaking by editing the book Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is timely as we witness another year of record-breaking dramatic weather and climate-related disasters worldwide. More than ever, all sectors of society at large are compelled to learn more about the environment we live in, the histories of the lands, waters, and forests around us, interconnections across complex geological, ecological, and socio-economical systems, and, ultimately, the relationship between individuals and the future of Aotearoa and beyond
Complete Poems
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Fifty years after James K. Baxter’s death, we finally have an edition of his Complete Poems. This four-volume collection completes the heroic project of editor John Weir and Te Herenga Waka University Press, begun in Complete Prose (2015) and Letters of a Poet (2018), to collect together and publish in scholarly form all of Baxter’s scattered writings. The publisher’s blurb reaches for an appropriately Baxterian image in calling this a ‘Herculean task’. Indeed, the scale of the collection invites superheroic imagery: 2,977 poems in 3,155 pages – to say nothing of the appendices (and I will say something of the appendices later). Weir’s earlier, long-standard Collected Poems (Oxford University Press, 1980) ran to only 656 pages. Gathering in the unpublished contents of the manuscript notebooks in the Hocken Library, together with poems published in obscure journals or recovered from friends and acquaintances, his new edition more or less triples the quantity of Baxter’s poetry now accessible to scholars and the general reader
Locating Paul Olds Within New Zealand Modernism
Get PDFThe place in New Zealand art history of Paul Olds (1922–1976) remains relatively obscure. Olds’ oeuvre defies easy categorisation and does not readily align with established notions of New Zealand modernism. He made a considerable impact as a painter and teacher in Wellington, where he settled in 1957 after six years in Europe. However, his reputation dwindled after his premature death. Olds’ paintings juxtapose figurative and non-figurative elements, organic and inorganic forms and employ nuanced texturing and complex colour layering. Observing his oeuvre chronologically reveals his distinctive approach and his subtle and nuanced contribution to New Zealand’s post-war modernist narrative.[i]
[i] The author (Miriam Olds Spence) was born in Wellington in 1963 to Elisabeth and Paul Olds. When I was three years old, my parents separated and my mother and I moved to Germany, where I grew up. My mother was engaged in postgraduate research at the University of Tübingen, and later became a lecturer there. After we moved, I only saw my father twice, briefly. I did not return to Wellington until 1979, three years after my father died. My research stems from a desire to better understand my father’s place in New Zealand’s postwar art history
The ideal early childhood teacher? Discursive constructions of professionalism in ECEC policy in Aotearoa
Get PDFIn policy, teachers are persistently positioned as central to improving the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC). They are frequently the targets for policy reform that proactively seeks to shape teaching priorities and practices. The constructions of teachers in policy shape notions of ideal professional identities, opening up spaces for certain identities and closing spaces for others. This critical discourse analysis of seven key ECEC policy texts assembles a range of discourses to identify and critically examine two prevalent and distinct 'ideal' professional identities for early childhood teachers: The Professional and The Kaiako
Early childhood teachers engaging with leadership narratives in policy: Coherence, contextualisation, and complexity
Get PDFEducational leadership resists a unifying definition, assumption, or theory. This complexity encourages us to learn about leadership to understand its core components, underlying assumptions, and relevance for context. In Aotearoa New Zealand, policy rhetoric promotes leadership as being enacted by teachers and positional leaders. This consideration for teachers is positive but problematic, as it requires them to consider leadership in ways beyond what they feel equipped or supported to achieve. Augmenting this concern is the limited professional learning support for leadership development, especially in early childhood, and the increasing responsibility for teachers to achieve policy aspirations. To understand the rhetoric used to emphasise this responsibility, we utilise qualitative document analysis to examine the leadership narratives promoted in the Teaching Council’s Leadership Strategy and Capability Framework, from the perspectives of provisionally certificated teachers, teacher leaders, and positional leaders. Our argument suggests the leadership narratives promulgated by these texts are ambitious and raise issues of: coherence, contextualisation, and complexity. We discuss these issues in relation to support for teachers to critically engage with policy texts as important leadership learning
Classical Logic is Connexive
Get PDFConnexive logics are based on two ideas: that no statement entails or is entailed by its own negation (this is Aristotle's thesis) and that no statement entails both something and the negation of this very thing (this is Boethius thesis). Usually, connexive logics are contra-classical. In this note, I introduce a reading of the connexive theses that makes them compatible with classical logic. According to this reading, the theses in question do not talk about validity alone; rather, they talk in part about (a property related to) the soundness of arguments
An Experiment in Governmental Futures Thinking: long-term insights briefings
Get PDFNew Zealand’s Public Service Act 2020 requires departmental chief executives to give a long-term insights briefing (LTIB) to their respective ministers at least once every three years. The LTIBs must provide ‘information about medium- and long-term trends, risks, and opportunities that affect or may affect New Zealand’, along with ‘information and impartial analysis, including policy options’ to address the matters raised. The first suite of LTIBs were prepared during 2022–23. This article assesses the first round of LTIBs, giving particular attention to how they identified future risks and opportunities and the extent to which they adopted robust foresight techniques. Based on this analysis, we suggest how the process for preparing future LTIBs might be improved
Comparing Health and safety sentencing in NZ and abroad
Get PDFA review of aspects of the sentencing regime in New Zealand with a focu on financial capacity and alternative orders. It highlights the different maximum penalty and approach to settng fine levels in England & Wales as well as literature from Australia regarding the need for regulators and courts to engage with alternative orders.  
Twice as likely to die: The failure of auditing to make an impact on health and safety outcomes in New Zealand
Get PDFNew Zealanders are twice as likely to be killed at work than Australians and seven times more likely than workers in the United Kingdom (UK). This article explores why health and safety auditing to meet due diligence requirements may not have had the intended impact on occupational health and safety (OHS) outcomes in New Zealand and considers what might be done to improve this
What’s missing in the New Zealand workplace health and safety system?
Get PDFThis article was initially planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK Health and Safety at Work etc Act which came into force on 31 July 1974. It was expanded to help respond to consultation by the New Zealand Government on experience with the New Zealand Act of the same name.
I briefly review aspects of system thinking and then report on the origins of the New Zealand Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Experience from New Zealand, the UK and Australia is used to help suggest some areas where there are gaps in the workplace health and safety system
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