scholarly journals The 21st Century Echocardiography Laboratory in Australia and New Zealand: Rapid Evolution of Training and Workforce, Practice and Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1421-1426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Brown ◽  
Amy Swan ◽  
Gillian A. Whalley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Echocardiography Laboratory

scholarly journals Beyond Westminster: thinking the Aotearoa/New Zealand way of governing

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Ryan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

Something intriguing is going on within the political executive. In response to emerging conditions of governing in the late 20th and early 21st century in countries like New Zealand, some public servants are acting in new ways that are quite different from certain key prescriptions of the traditional, Westminster-derived constitutional framework on which our polity is based. This paper identifies some of these changes and considers their implications.

scholarly journals Rolling back Modernity: Selective Tradition and Contemporary Literary Politics in the South Pacific

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lawn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Selective Tradition ◽  
Literary Politics ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

This article relates Raymond Williams’s concept of “selective tradition” to the shaping of literary history in Aotearoa New Zealand. It makes the case for the ongoing salience of Williams’s narrative of modernity as a “long revolution,” and his sense of the threats to democratic and cultural participation around the turn of the 21st century, as a framework for situating recent cultural politics. The article closes with some suggestions for possible future directions for the development of locally-based materialist literary criticism.

CENOZOIC PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL ZONATIONS OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
D. Graham Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Planktonic Foraminifera ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Major Step ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
A Minor

BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION of fossil species of planktonic foraminifera has played a major role in correlating marine Cenozoic rocks because of their relatively high diversity, abundance, rapid evolution and wide geographic distribution. A major step was undertaken in Trinidad in 1945 with the division of the Oligocene-Miocene rocks into three zones based on planktonic foraminifera and with the intensive oil-search on the island, there began an equally intensive research programme and rapid development in the study.Two research projects, independent of each other, were initiated in Gippsland. Victoria in the 1950s which resulted in publications: (1) from surface samples, a faunal unit system was devised for the Upper Eocene-Miocene. and (2) 11 named planktonic foraminiferal zones were established in a four-foot sampled Oligocene-Miocene sequence of the Lakes Entrance oil shaft. The latter scheme was tested and expanded for 3 years during oil exploration on the East Coast of New Zealand during 1959-1962 and a further four years was spent thoroughly testing, and expanding it into 21 zones sub-dividing the whole Cenozoic time of 67my. The zones can be identified in both surface and sub-surface sections and used for direct, accurate correlations of marine rock sequences thus providing the geologist with essential data for the construction of maps and subsurface control.The zonal scheme was re-exported back to South Australia, later to Gippsland and used there with minor local changes in the off-shore oil exploration; in 1973 the zonal scheme was further tested during the Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 29 in the area south of New Zealand and Australia.Studies of planktonic foraminifera and allied microfossils has resulted in the cheapest and most reliable method for rapid age determinations of Cenozoic marine rocks; in perspective it plays a minor, but essential role in oil-search. The zonal scheme is a dynamic model subject to change and improvement.

Sharpening New Zealand’s future focus: A scenaric stance

2014 ◽  
pp. 24-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Matthewman ◽  
John Morgan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Scenario Building ◽  
High Consumption ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Future Focus ◽  
Carbon Based

Future focus is one of the eight principles of the New Zealand curriculum. However, the term is sometimes conflated with the more-expansive term 21st-century learning, which, this article argues, accepts uncritically dominant assumptions that New Zealand’s future is as part of a hyper-globalised, fast-paced, capitalist world. This article insists on future focus as a means of developing the curriculum to support pupils as they learn to think critically about globalisation, sustainability, enterprise, and citizenship. Using the example of scenario-building in the context of carbon-based economies and high-consumption lifestyles we emphasise that futures education requires important skills of study, analysis, creation, imagination, and interpretation.

scholarly journals 21st Century Learners: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge, Learning and the Child

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Hirschman ◽  
Bronwyn Wood
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
21St Century Learners ◽  
The Impact

  The term ‘21st century learner’ emerged at the turn of the millennium and evoked a certain type of digitally-agile and self-driven learner. These ideas about 21st century learners have been widely and uncritically adopted in New Zealand policies and practices in recent years. This paper examines the origins and substance of this term against the backdrop of globalisation and Knowledge Economy discourses and emerging ideas of ‘digital natives’. It considers the implications of these ideas on conceptualisations of the child, the development of deep learning, the impact on relationships between adults/teachers and students and on social equity. It concludes by suggesting that the term 21st century learner needs on-going critique if we want critical, informed citizens in our democracy.

scholarly journals The Invasive New Zealand Mudsnail, Potamopyrgus Antipodarum, Reduces Growth of the Native Snail, Fossaria SP.

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Amy Krist ◽  
Mark Dybdahl
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Biological Invasions ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Potamopyrgus Antipodarum ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Or Gene ◽  
New Zealand Mud Snail ◽  
The Impact

Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity. Hence, understanding the role of invasive species is of grave importance to managing and minimizing the impact of biological invasions. To date, the ecological impacts of biological invasions have received significant attention, but little effort has been made to address the evolutionary impact (Sakai et al. 2001, Cox 2004). This is despite the fact that evolutionary impacts are likely to be widespread; invasive species have been shown to alter patterns of natural selection or gene flow within native populations (Parker et al. 1999), and many of the best examples of rapid evolution involve invasive species interacting with native species (Reznick and Ghalambor 2001, Strauss et al. 2006). We have begun to address some of the evolutionary consequences of the invasion of the New Zealand mud snail, (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) on a species of native snail in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA).

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