title: World-view perspectives

authors: Whitehead, David

subjects: perspective

abstract: The foundation of a tolerant society is an ability to foster and
respond to the diversity of perspective among its people. Cognitive
psychologists have described how perspective influences information
processing, while our innate ability to adopt perspective has been established
by neuropsychology. Literature, through the use of point-of-view, together
with results from researchers adopting socio-cultural paradigms suggests
perspective is also a social construct. An ecologically-based framework is
described that provides cohesion to the temporal, spatial, universal and other
types of world-view perspective associated, predominantly, with indigenous
cultures. Culturally responsible types of creative and critical thinking are
evoked when world-view perspective is engaged while reading text and
reading the world. World-view perspective provides us with a means of
critiquing the construction of knowledge through the de-construction of
dominant discourses, re-valuing of indigenous world-views and reducing the
relational distance between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

text: World-view perspectives The foundation of a tolerant society is an ability to foster and
respond to the diversity of perspective among its people. Cognitive
psychologists have described how perspective influences information
processing, while our innate ability to adopt perspective has been established
by neuropsychology. Literature, through the use of point-of-view, together
with results from researchers adopting socio-cultural paradigms suggests
perspective is also a social construct. An ecologically-based framework is
described that provides cohesion to the temporal, spatial, universal and other
types of world-view perspective associated, predominantly, with indigenous
cultures. Culturally responsible types of creative and critical thinking are
evoked when world-view perspective is engaged while reading text and
reading the world. World-view perspective provides us with a means of
critiquing the construction of knowledge through the de-construction of
dominant discourses, re-valuing of indigenous world-views and reducing the
relational distance between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

year: 2005

title: Online reading lists: a mixed-method analysis of the academic perspective

authors: Kumara, P. P. N. V.

subjects: computer science

abstract: Reading list systems are widely used in tertiary education as a pedagogical tool and for tracking copyrighted material. This article explores the make-up of reading lists across a whole university. We investigated the experience of academics and librarians when creating reading lists. A mixed-method approach was employed in which we performed a transaction log analysis on reading lists at a single university, from 2016 to 2020. A questionnaire was then answered by both academics and academic liaison librarians about their experience with reading lists. The results of our analysis found that uptake of reading lists varies widely between different academic disciplines. Academic engagement with reading lists was found to show only incremental growth over time, and overall satisfaction by academics with the reading list system was low. We explore implications for reading lists implemented through digital Libraries and recommend developing discipline-specific support to increase reading list numbers and to integrate pedagogical features to increase academic buy-in.

text: Online reading lists: a mixed-method analysis of the academic perspective Reading list systems are widely used in tertiary education as a pedagogical tool and for tracking copyrighted material. This article explores the make-up of reading lists across a whole university. We investigated the experience of academics and librarians when creating reading lists. A mixed-method approach was employed in which we performed a transaction log analysis on reading lists at a single university, from 2016 to 2020. A questionnaire was then answered by both academics and academic liaison librarians about their experience with reading lists. The results of our analysis found that uptake of reading lists varies widely between different academic disciplines. Academic engagement with reading lists was found to show only incremental growth over time, and overall satisfaction by academics with the reading list system was low. We explore implications for reading lists implemented through digital Libraries and recommend developing discipline-specific support to increase reading list numbers and to integrate pedagogical features to increase academic buy-in.

year: 2023

title: New Zealand’s indigenous forests – their status and drivers of change

authors: Allen, Robert

abstract: New Zealand’s remaining indigenous forests and shrublands are of immense cultural, environmental, and economic significance. A representative plot-based sample of these forests and shrublands has recently allowed an unbiased depiction of their composition
and structure. This is necessary for international reporting, performance assessment and management prioritisation. Their composition, structure, and function are driven by a diverse array of factors, many of which are complexly interrelated. The imprint of disturbances is pervasive and it is necessary to understand disturbances to interpret human-related impacts. For example, understanding impacts of exotic browsing mammals is only possible within a context of forest ecosystem development and tree demographic processes. There are now extensive areas of shrublands successional to forest, often composed of mixtures of indigenous and exotic species. These shrublands expand the pportunities for ecosystem services from, for example, carbon sequestration to water quality. An increasing area of indigenous forests and shrublands are managed for distinctive Māori aspirations that include sustainable use.

text: New Zealand’s indigenous forests – their status and drivers of change New Zealand’s remaining indigenous forests and shrublands are of immense cultural, environmental, and economic significance. A representative plot-based sample of these forests and shrublands has recently allowed an unbiased depiction of their composition
and structure. This is necessary for international reporting, performance assessment and management prioritisation. Their composition, structure, and function are driven by a diverse array of factors, many of which are complexly interrelated. The imprint of disturbances is pervasive and it is necessary to understand disturbances to interpret human-related impacts. For example, understanding impacts of exotic browsing mammals is only possible within a context of forest ecosystem development and tree demographic processes. There are now extensive areas of shrublands successional to forest, often composed of mixtures of indigenous and exotic species. These shrublands expand the pportunities for ecosystem services from, for example, carbon sequestration to water quality. An increasing area of indigenous forests and shrublands are managed for distinctive Māori aspirations that include sustainable use.

year: 2015