That's not even remotely close to anything I said. Science is a process. A method of understanding the world around us. There is no Maori science, there is no western science. 2 + 2 = 4 regardless of ones race or creed. The escape velocity to leave earths ...
"We shouldn't teach that science is only the domain of dead white guys either." No - we shouldn't teach science is the domain of anyone at all. Science is a process of gathering information and creating a model of reality which adheres to reality and is ...
That's not science catching up with traditional knowledge though. That's science studying the world as per repeatable experiments. You forget all the other parts of traditional knowledge that science has disproven and are not valid. It's not traditional ...
Yes but many many many, all, cultures in existence today independently came across navigation, warfare, agriculture and the like. Centuries before the Maori did. Oxford University predates the Aztec empire. The Egyptians were doing this before the time of ...
I think maybe I misunderstood you and we are talking at cross-purposes. Apologies if so.
"Māori & Polynesian insights in science" Can you give me one of these insights? "This seems reasonable, but in practice it means that only the dominant (Pakeha) cultural perspectives are taught as valid." Can you give me an example of this in relation to ...
"Openminded acceptance of difference can be hard." This sentence makes no sense. Can you restate your meaning?
I think you misunderstand what I am saying. Science wasn't "invented" by anyone. All it is is a method of compiling knowledge. It is just epistemology quantified by a method. People, humans, have predicting navigation on the patterns of the stars long ...
"science is one of them, not the only one." you can make sense of the world however you like but if you can't show it, you don't know it. If you tell me you make sense of the world through a person in the wall who tells you things then I would ask for ...
"So often we hear of science catching up with traditional knowledge" Do you have an example of this?
"It's why I don't get the objection to bringing Mātauranga Māori into science education." Because it isn't science. Science is divorced from race, creed or sex. The Theory of Gravity, for example, is a system that doesn't discriminate. Gravity works ...
This post/article or whatever you call it makes me sad. Science is science. Science cares not for race, creed or religion. I am Tahitian (well - my father was and my mother was a kiwi). Tahitian's also learned about the seasons, when to plant certain crops...
New poster here so be gentle. I don't know if this has bee brought up here - there is a lot of things to read. What does everyone think the cabinet reshuffle will look like? Hipkins will no doubt move pieces around but does anyone have an opinion on who ...
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