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Mika, Carl Te Hira; Tiakiwai, Sarah-Jane – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Figurative Language