title: Claiming collective space: Kaupapa Maori in psychology

authors: Levy, Michelle Patricia

subjects: Maori

abstract: From its inception, the Psychology Department at the University of Waikato has had a focus on issues of culture, particularly those of relevance for Maori, with these early foundations laid by Emeritus Professor James Ritchie, who in 1965 took up the founding chair of the Department. These foundations have continued to be built on, utilising a variety of different strategies. Drawing on a research base which has emerged primarily from within the Maori and Psychology Research Unit at Waikato University, this paper explores strategies which have served to carve out and claim space for Maori, both within the department, and within the wider discipline of psychology.

text: Claiming collective space: Kaupapa Maori in psychology From its inception, the Psychology Department at the University of Waikato has had a focus on issues of culture, particularly those of relevance for Maori, with these early foundations laid by Emeritus Professor James Ritchie, who in 1965 took up the founding chair of the Department. These foundations have continued to be built on, utilising a variety of different strategies. Drawing on a research base which has emerged primarily from within the Maori and Psychology Research Unit at Waikato University, this paper explores strategies which have served to carve out and claim space for Maori, both within the department, and within the wider discipline of psychology.

year: 2008

title: Maori thinking with a dead white male: Philosophizing in the realm of Novalis

authors: Mika, Carl Te Hira

subjects: Novalis

abstract: In this paper I shall discuss my experiences of referring to Novalis in the context of Maori postcolonialism and metaphysical philosophy. As with other methods of research, from a Maori perspective one always alights on and then carries the effects of the philosopher that stands behind the method, whether the philosopher is silent or explicit. This important onto-epistemological interaction, in a general sense, acknowledges for the indigenous person that one is always ‘within’ the world and not detached from it. The maligned dead white male hence unavoidably becomes the highly constructive, living impulse behind what is to become fresh and innovative indigenous thinking.

text: Maori thinking with a dead white male: Philosophizing in the realm of Novalis In this paper I shall discuss my experiences of referring to Novalis in the context of Maori postcolonialism and metaphysical philosophy. As with other methods of research, from a Maori perspective one always alights on and then carries the effects of the philosopher that stands behind the method, whether the philosopher is silent or explicit. This important onto-epistemological interaction, in a general sense, acknowledges for the indigenous person that one is always ‘within’ the world and not detached from it. The maligned dead white male hence unavoidably becomes the highly constructive, living impulse behind what is to become fresh and innovative indigenous thinking.

year: 2014

title: Using state machines for the visualisation of specifications via refinement

authors: Pilbrow, Colin

abstract: We talk in this paper about using state machines and refinement to characterise the visualisation of a computation.

We use Z specifications to give examples of systems in the usual way, and then use Z schemas to also represent states and transitions in state machines, which we consider to be a particular kind of visualisation of a specified system.

We have investigated the principle of substitutivity and the idea of downward simulation to check whether or not a refinement relation exists between the specification and the state machine. We are looking at this because we believe that the soundness of the visualisation can be captured by such a refinement relationship.

text: Using state machines for the visualisation of specifications via refinement We talk in this paper about using state machines and refinement to characterise the visualisation of a computation.

We use Z specifications to give examples of systems in the usual way, and then use Z schemas to also represent states and transitions in state machines, which we consider to be a particular kind of visualisation of a specified system.

We have investigated the principle of substitutivity and the idea of downward simulation to check whether or not a refinement relation exists between the specification and the state machine. We are looking at this because we believe that the soundness of the visualisation can be captured by such a refinement relationship.

year: 2015