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Were We Being Sold a Lemon? Analysing the distributional implications for those Labour’s proposed social insurance scheme would have covered
Get PDFIn February 2023, the Labour government announced that it was shelving its proposed income insurance scheme for now, but indicated that the scheme may be revived if Labour is re-elected in October. The proposal raised many equity and efficiency issues, including the inequities of a two-tier system which favours workers who would be covered by the scheme ahead of others who would not. This article focuses on differences in outcomes within the insured group. Using a family vignette methodology, it finds that the scheme, layered on top of existing welfare provisions, would have been highly regressive and poor value for money for many low- and middle-income families
Floating Frontiersmen and Illicit Informal Economies in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
Get PDFIn the 1840s, Britain’s New Zealand and Vandemonian colonies underwent significant transformations that proved to be turning points in their histories. New Zealand became a crown colony in 1840, while the convict colony of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) was the site of a unique experiment in penal discipline. Against this backdrop, Spanish-born and American-raised black whaler Emanuel Lewis traded oceanic voyaging for a terrestrial-based Antipodean lifestyle. This urban-based floating frontiersman subsequently became embroiled in three court cases. Intimate readings of these cases reveal how several unofficial economies were flourishing at the time in New Zealand and Van Diemen’s Land, and link life on the land in the port cities of Auckland and Hobart into a global maritime network within which Lewis functioned as a node.
Mediating Aotearoa
Get PDFThe title, Mediating Aotearoa, intrigues. Dieter Riemenschneider calls himself a “mediator,” and explains his role as “someone deeply engaged in reading, analysing, teaching, writing upon, and translating into German literary representations of other cultures, or of acquiring and disseminating insights into their distinct character, historical and poetic traditions, and aesthetic make-up.
Designing for empowering curriculum implementation: The potential of “enduring competencies”
Get PDFInternational advocacy for future-focused curriculum design often centres on the idea of “competencies” or “capabilities” as potentially transformative constructs for high-level curriculum frameworks. This trend is exemplified by the addition of “key competencies” to the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum. Despite good intentions, this structural change appears to have made minimal difference to the learning that many students experience, or to the assessment practices used to evaluate that learning. With a Curriculum Refresh currently underway, now is an opportune moment to revisit the use of competencies as a lever for curriculum change and ask how the type of transformative change they are intended to stimulate might be conveyed and implemented in more empowering ways.
This paper introduces the idea of “enduring competencies” as an umbrella construct for more effective curriculum design conversations. Learning from what has proved problematic in the past, we show how this construct might refocus thinking about purposes for learning, while at the same time being more specific about how and why traditional curriculum “content” might need to change. We illustrate this potential by drawing on our recent collective endeavour to build a small set of enduring competencies for school science education. The paper briefly outlines these four enduring competencies and demonstrates how they build bridges between past (more traditional) and future-focused (more transformative) curriculum and assessment design for the science learning area
Introduction to the special issue ‘Valerie Plumwood’s contributions to Logic’
Get PDFThis is an introduction to the special issue of the AJL on Val Plumwood's manuscript "False Laws of Logic" and her other work in logic
The class of all 3-valued natural conditional variants of RM3 that are Plumwood Algebras
Get PDFValerie Plumwood introduced in "Some false laws of logic" a series of arguments on how the rules Exported Syllogism, Disjunctive Syllogism, Commutation, and Exportation are not acceptable. Based on this we define the class of Plumwood algebras - logical matrices that do not verify any of these theses. Afterwards we provide conditional variants of the characteristic matrix of the logic RM3 that are also Plumwood algebras. These matrices are given an axiomatization based on First Degree Entailment and are endowed with Belnap-Dunn Semantics. Finally we provide results of Soundness and Completeness in the strong sense for each of the defined variants
Criminal Liability for "Photographic Piracy"?
Get PDFThe author is a Professor Emeritus of Cambridge University, where for many years Tony Smith was his friend and valued colleague. In this article he critically analyses the existing law in relation to taking or publishing photographs of other people without their consent and considers the desirability of extending criminal liability for such behaviour by the creation of a new criminal offence
When Tomorrow Comes: contextualising the independent review of Tomorrow’s Schools
Get PDFThe Tomorrow’s Schools reforms in 1989 fundamentally changed primary and secondary schooling in New Zealand. While the devolved nature of Tomorrow’s Schools has enabled higher levels of local autonomy, it has also been criticised for opening up schools to marketisation and contributing to inequality between schools. Around 30 years after the original reforms, a significant government-sponsored review was undertaken into whether the compulsory schooling system was still fit for purpose under the Tomorrow’s Schools settings. This article finds that there is a mismatch between the recommended structural reform and the resulting ‘reset’ of Tomorrow’s schools
Public Housing in an Urban Setting: an inclusive wellbeing framework
No full textWe outline a wellbeing framework to underpin analysis within a major research programme in which a key component is to examine effects of public housing on tenant wellbeing. The wellbeing framework is designed to be inclusive by drawing on multiple international approaches to wellbeing (especially the capabilities and subjective wellbeing approaches) and on te ao Māori and Pacific wellbeing frameworks. Key features of the framework are that it: emphasises both individual and whänau wellbeing; enables wellbeing judgements to be made by the tenants themselves; allows for co-determination of factors affecting wellbeing; and allows for interpersonal factors to affect wellbeing. We describe surveys of public housing tenants being conducted within the research programme and outline how they can be analysed with reference to the inclusive wellbeing framework
ZeroHarm Mobile App
Get PDFMaintaining the health and safety of workers on a worksite should be a site’s number one priority. For a worksite to uphold a high level of safety it must keep track of things like possible hazards, substances, incidents, and workers coming in and out of a site. Keeping track of all this data and keeping workers aware of this information and any updates that occur is not easy to do in real time. With the ZeroHarm mobile app, workers can sign in and out of sites while also having and receiving updates on information like hazards and locations on the site which may be harmful. This app is built in React Native and makes use of the internet to communicate information. This project has produced a working prototype app to this idea. This app was evaluated through both unit testing within the React Native environment and user tested by real site-workers
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