My Preproom

The New Zealand Science Review journal has published a special issue featuring Mātauranga and Science in practice.  Here is a link to the issue . This is the first of two issues to be published and after reading most of the articles in the first issue, I am looking forward to the second installment. I was particularly captured by the article Mātauranga and Pūtaiao: the question of ‘Māori' science’ by Georgina Stewart. She discussed cases for and against there being such thing as Māori Science and comes to a suggested conclusion about it. She suggests that rather than western science being a separate system to Māori science as you might describe with a Venn diagram, that Māori science sits in a wider super-set circle with western science as a smaller subset circle inside it. This is because she sees Māori science as containing all the knowledge and attributes of western science plus other knowledge and attributes unique to Māori science. In conclusion, Georgina doesn’t defin...