All Pākeha teachers should be tauira ō te reo Māori.

“We know Māori students do much better when education reflects and values their identity, language and culture”. (Ministry of Education 2013, p.6).
 

Introduction

Professional standards for teachers do not currently hav...

Introduction

Policies relating to mātauranga Māori have been used as assimilatory tools for forced integration and erasure of te ao Māori (Tooley, 2000). Through what Tooley coins an “illusory representation of Māori by the state”, continued oppression has been able to...

Neoliberalism in Aotearoa seeks to commodify the access to education for state profit (Connell, 2013). Whilst education itself cannot be commodified, to exist as a participant in society, a certain degree of assimilation is required before a young person is a) legally...

Te Tiriti O Waitangi is a document heralded by the crown as a legislative act allowing the crown to manufacture a seemingly equitable governmental landscape between tangata whenua and the British. The reality for Māori, however, has been a consistent and systematic ins...

You teach from your own experience as a cultural member. Education in Aotearoa is Eurocentric in essence, despite increasing efforts, and for this to be further perpetrated by an authoritative teacher enhances the marginalisation of non-European learners. Within the st...

This report shows just one example of how we can help create and facilitate a positive and culturally relevant change in direction to a more equitable learning environment for rangatahi in Aotearoa. 

"School A" had a change of leadership, meaning a new principal...

Research within indigenous communities continues to be conducted in a way that is Eurocentric, acquisitional, and inequitable. Non-Māori working in a research role with tangata whenua are in a position where a location of oneself in regards to privilege and power is e...