title: New Zealand therapist insights into the intersecting fields of sexualities and childhood

authors: Flanagan, Paul G.

subjects: Aotearoa New Zealand

abstract: Little research has been published about therapists’ insights into the intersecting fields of sexualities and childhood. In this paper, I focus on therapists’ responses from my recently completed doctoral research project in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this study, I analysed “talk” by adults (parents, teachers, and therapists), responding to the question: What language is used to describe childhood sexuality by adults in Aotearoa New Zealand? Through group and individual interviews, participants were invited to respond to a range of vignettes about children’s actions that some people regard as sexual. The analysis shows that therapists, like parents and teachers, drew on heteronormative ideas of child development to describe and shape children’s expressions of sexuality. Questions about gender and sexual pleasure in childhood are discussed and the article concludes with an invitation to counsellors to examine their own positioning in their talk about the child and sexuality.

text: New Zealand therapist insights into the intersecting fields of sexualities and childhood Little research has been published about therapists’ insights into the intersecting fields of sexualities and childhood. In this paper, I focus on therapists’ responses from my recently completed doctoral research project in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this study, I analysed “talk” by adults (parents, teachers, and therapists), responding to the question: What language is used to describe childhood sexuality by adults in Aotearoa New Zealand? Through group and individual interviews, participants were invited to respond to a range of vignettes about children’s actions that some people regard as sexual. The analysis shows that therapists, like parents and teachers, drew on heteronormative ideas of child development to describe and shape children’s expressions of sexuality. Questions about gender and sexual pleasure in childhood are discussed and the article concludes with an invitation to counsellors to examine their own positioning in their talk about the child and sexuality.

year: 2020

title: Comparison between the RSA cryptosystem and elliptic curve cryptography

authors: Abdullah, Kamilah

subjects: Cryptography

abstract: In the globalization era, cryptography becomes more popular and powerful; in fact it is very important in many areas (i.e. mathematics, computer science, networks, etc). This thesis provides an overview and comparison between the
RSA cryptosystem and elliptic curve cryptography, which both focus on sending and receiving messages. The basic theories of the RSA cryptosystem and elliptic curve cryptography are explored. The RSA cryptosystem and elliptic
curve cryptography theories are quite similar but elliptic curve cryptography is more complicated. The idea of the RSA cryptosystem is based on three
popular theorems which are Euler's Theorem, Fermat's Little Theorem and the Chinese Remainder Theorem. This discussion shows that the reliability and strong security of the RSA cryptosystem depends on the degree of dif-
ficulty of integer factorization. Therefore, methods for integer factorization are discussed. In addition I show how the security of elliptic curve cryptography depends on the apparent difficulty of solving the elliptic curve discrete
logarithm problem (ECDLP).

text: Comparison between the RSA cryptosystem and elliptic curve cryptography In the globalization era, cryptography becomes more popular and powerful; in fact it is very important in many areas (i.e. mathematics, computer science, networks, etc). This thesis provides an overview and comparison between the
RSA cryptosystem and elliptic curve cryptography, which both focus on sending and receiving messages. The basic theories of the RSA cryptosystem and elliptic curve cryptography are explored. The RSA cryptosystem and elliptic
curve cryptography theories are quite similar but elliptic curve cryptography is more complicated. The idea of the RSA cryptosystem is based on three
popular theorems which are Euler's Theorem, Fermat's Little Theorem and the Chinese Remainder Theorem. This discussion shows that the reliability and strong security of the RSA cryptosystem depends on the degree of dif-
ficulty of integer factorization. Therefore, methods for integer factorization are discussed. In addition I show how the security of elliptic curve cryptography depends on the apparent difficulty of solving the elliptic curve discrete
logarithm problem (ECDLP).

year: 2010

title: Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis

authors: Crocket, Alastair Robert

subjects: Counselling

abstract: The challenges of achieving the potential, which the Treaty of Waitangi offers for a postcolonial present and future, have shaped life in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last four decades. This thesis draws on this history and challenge to consider the practice possibilities for Pākehā counsellors when they work with clients and colleagues of other cultures. It is strongly influenced by the Treaty of Waitangi but seeks not to be limited to a Māori/Pākehā binary. It has been undertaken in the hopes of informing developments in the practice of students seeking to qualify to work as counsellors and more experienced practitioners. The first theoretical foundation for this study is poststructuralism which is considered as a braided stream of theorizing where braids divide and unite. A Foucauldian social constructionism underlies this project, which extends to a consideration of subjectification, agency and positioning theory. This study is also intentionally postcolonial drawing on Said’s seminal works, Orientalism (1979) and Culture and Imperialism (1993) and North American and European writing about identity politics and intersectionality. It views the centring of the Treaty of Waitangi in this land as postcolonial work. These two emphases, poststructuralism and postcolonialism, provide the theoretical base for an exploration of the context of professional counselling practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Five experienced counsellors constituted a research group who firstly discussed practising as a Pākehā counsellor and then acknowledged their hopes and fears for their practice with clients of other cultures. In later stages of the data generation the participants were invited to join in processes of discourse analysis and deconstruction which produced shifts in practice and practice identity. This study identifies two forms of praxis that might inform a counselling practice which seeks to achieve a postcolonial purpose: these are named as critical discursive praxis and critical Pākehā praxis.

text: Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis The challenges of achieving the potential, which the Treaty of Waitangi offers for a postcolonial present and future, have shaped life in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last four decades. This thesis draws on this history and challenge to consider the practice possibilities for Pākehā counsellors when they work with clients and colleagues of other cultures. It is strongly influenced by the Treaty of Waitangi but seeks not to be limited to a Māori/Pākehā binary. It has been undertaken in the hopes of informing developments in the practice of students seeking to qualify to work as counsellors and more experienced practitioners. The first theoretical foundation for this study is poststructuralism which is considered as a braided stream of theorizing where braids divide and unite. A Foucauldian social constructionism underlies this project, which extends to a consideration of subjectification, agency and positioning theory. This study is also intentionally postcolonial drawing on Said’s seminal works, Orientalism (1979) and Culture and Imperialism (1993) and North American and European writing about identity politics and intersectionality. It views the centring of the Treaty of Waitangi in this land as postcolonial work. These two emphases, poststructuralism and postcolonialism, provide the theoretical base for an exploration of the context of professional counselling practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Five experienced counsellors constituted a research group who firstly discussed practising as a Pākehā counsellor and then acknowledged their hopes and fears for their practice with clients of other cultures. In later stages of the data generation the participants were invited to join in processes of discourse analysis and deconstruction which produced shifts in practice and practice identity. This study identifies two forms of praxis that might inform a counselling practice which seeks to achieve a postcolonial purpose: these are named as critical discursive praxis and critical Pākehā praxis.

year: 2010