Cultural justice, ethics and teaching

Te Tiriti o Waitangi provides both a basis for cultural justice in this society and an explication of the term; each of the articles identifying a significant aspect of cultural justice. First, there is the guarantee to the Maori signatories that the Crown would protect their independence - tino rangatiratanga, (also read as authority, autonomy or self-determination) [Article II]. In Article III Maori are promised that they will also have the “Rights and Privileges of British subjects”. Finally, in Article I, Maori cede to the Crown the right to govern, to make laws to protect all peoples from the evil consequences of lawlessness. The 1835 Declaration of Independence located legislative authority in the Wakaminenga (the gathered rangatira meeting in Congress); and in 1840, in the context of the Crown promises, Maori authorised the Crown to exercise that authority. For Maori Te Tiriti specifies cultural justice for interactions between Maori and settlers in the new society. Maori are guaranteed the right to self-determination (and the economic and social resources to make that practical) in their relations with New Zealand society. They are also entitled to the same opportunities as other citizens. The latter rights, embodied in local legislation and international covenants to which we are signatory, are not alternatives to the prior right of Maori people to their (cultural) autonomy. The exercise of legislative and organisational authority must be exercised in a manner consistent with the promises which clearly requires consultation and negotiation with Maori

Tauiwi general practitioners explanations of Maori health: Colonial relations in primary healthcare in Aotearoa/New Zealand?

This paper reports initial findings from qualitative research investigating how general practitioners talk about Maori health. Transcripts of semi-structured interviews with 25 general practitioners from urban Auckland were subjected to critical discursive analyses. Through this process of intensive, analytic reading, interpretative repertoires – patterns of words and images about a particular topic – were identified. This paper presents the main features of one such repertoire, termed Maori Morbidity, that the general practitioners used in accounting for poor Maori health status. Our participants were drawing upon a circumscribed pool of ideas and explaining the inequalities in health between Maori and Tauiwi in ways that gave primacy to characteristics of Maori and their culture. We discuss the implications of this conclusion for relations between Maori patients and Tauiwi doctors in primary healthcare settings

Initiation and Propagation of Transverse Cracking in Composite Laminates

The matrix cracking transverse to loading direction is usually the one of most common observations of damages in composite laminates. The initiation and propagation of transverse cracks have been a longstanding issue in the last few decades. In this paper, a three-dimensional stress analysis method based on the state space approach is used to compute the stresses, including the inter-laminar stresses near transverse cracks in laminated composites. The stress field is then used to estimate the energy release rate, from which the initiation and propagation of transverse cracking are predicted. The proposed method is illustrated by numerical solutions and is validated by available experimental results. To the best knowledge of the authors, the predictions of crack behaviour for non-symmetrical laminates and laminates subject to in-plane shearing are presented for the first time in the literature

Prediction of cross-shore sediment transport and beach profiles evolution

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Royal Australian Navy Laser Airborne Depth Sounder, The First Year of Operations

The Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) has been a longstanding research and development project with the Royal Australian Navy. Following Defence Acceptance Trials the system was provisionally accepted into service and commenced operational surveys in north Queensland in March 1993. The majority of the year saw LADS surveying in the Flinders Passage area from operational bases in Townsville and later Caims. During that period a number of enhancements were implemented and LADS was formally accepted into naval service on 8th October. In November a new survey was commenced between Fairway Channel and Bunker Reef, about 200 nautical miles north of Caims. After dealing briefly with the history of development, this paper will concentrate on the operational and surveying aspects of LADS' first year, and comment on the direction of further development

Route maist devious: a study of the works of Sydney Goodsir Smith

The decade spanning 1980 to 1990 has seen a proliferation of critical studies and re-appraisal of the nature and development of Scottish literature. In this substantial body ofwork, however, little or no attention has been focused on the works of Sydney Goodsir Smith who, since his death in 1975, has come to seem increasingly isolated and neglected.This thesis then aims to provide the first comprehensive examination of the eclectic span of Goodsir Smith's poetry, fiction and drama. The study draws on interviews with Goodsir Smith's literary contemporaries, family and friends and seeks to relate the works, where relevant, to the socio-political and literary context of the period, while examining some of the significant autobiographical material incorporated in the works.Chapter One focuses on Goodsir Smith's early background and his growing attachment to both Scotland and Scottish literature and studies the nature of his earliest poetry in both Scots and English.Chapter Two looks at the poetry written during World War Two, considers the combined influences of modernism and the Scottish renaissance as well as Goodsir Smith's growing interest in the long poem.The end of World War Two signals the opening of a new phase, at once post-MacDiarmid and post-visionary. Chapters Three and Four of this thesis look at ways in which the literary context was changing and argues that Goodsir Smith's Under The Eildon Tree (1948) can be seen as breaking into new aesthetic areas and perspectives prefiguring developments emerging more fully in the 1950s as what we now recognise as the postmodern.Chapter Five examines what may be termed parallel developments and looks at the shorter poetry written in the immediate post-war period, its related aesthetic components and its powerful biographical substrata.Chapter Six moves into related though radically divergent areas of experimentation, the innovative prose fiction of Carotid Comucopius and the challenging (and to date, unpublished) play Colickie Meg, pursuing the seminal strands of the postmodern. This chapter also considers the more conventional play. The Wallace.Chapter Seven focuses on the complex amalgam of diverse approaches collected in Figs and Thistles, framing the book as ranking, with Under The Eildon Tree, among Goodsir Smith's finest works.Chapter Eight opens with a consideration of some aspects of the longer, more calm, if still deviant and discursive poetry of Goodsir Smith's later years. This leads on to the conclusion of this thesis with an assessment of the nature of Goodsir Smith's achievement. It is argued that not only is his work drastically under-rated, but that it will in the long term be seen as integral to the central experimental thrust of European and Anglo-American literature and as crucial to the development of modern Scottish literature. This is particularly so with regard to Under The Eildon Tree which moves significantly beyond the ground-breaking work of MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. It is also argued that this work suggests pathways into the future of Scottish literature which have been far from fully or even usefully explored

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Introduction and summary of works in this volume