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Te Kawehau Hoskins; Alison Jones – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
We will share some thoughts on what 'indigenising the academy' might mean, and why we might attempt it. We come at these questions from our different yet intertwined identities, experiences and lines of intellectual inquiry. Te Kawehau is of Ngati Hau and Ngapuhi tribal groups. Her indigenous ancestors arrived in Aotearoa about 1000 years ago.…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Land Settlement, Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups
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Tiria Shaw; Hoana Mcmillan – Early Childhood Folio, 2023
In te ao Maori, our connection to our maunga and physical landmarks speaks to who we are as a people. Our maunga are also a source of inspiration and direction. This article draws on the symbolism of maunga and describes a Maori process of the way maunga can also act as a metaphorical journey to strengthening identity and transformative change. It…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Ethnicity
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Skerrett, Mere – Gender and Education, 2023
In this article, I traverse Maori positionality informing Maori worldviews, alongside geohistorical navigational trajectories of knowledge. Drawing on ancestral travel which utilized sophisticated readings of stars, currents, winds, clouds, contexts and colours of the biodiversity to navigate, the concept of wayfinding as methodology and method is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Populations
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Gain, Priya – Teachers and Curriculum, 2022
This paper uses an arts-based learning encounter at a marae-based wananga as a starting point for exploring the potential of aesthetic inquiry to support dynamic and always evolving relationality between people and place. The work of two researchers, Maori writer and scholar Cassandra Barnett and Irish inter-cultural researcher Sharon Todd, is…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art Education, Biculturalism, Ethnic Groups
Maia Hetaraka – NZCER Press, 2024
This thought-provoking book emerges from the author's personal journey through Aotearoa New Zealand's evolving education policy landscape. Delving into the complexities of a policy intended to enhance Maori student success, the author draws from personal, ancestral, and contemporary experiences to unravel and reframe conventional understandings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Welch, A. R. – Comparative Education, 1988
Suggests "internal colonialism" explains policies and practices of Australia's Aboriginal education programs. Traces Australia's colonial history from the late 18th century, detailing examples of White ethnocentrism and culture conflict between Aboriginal and White settlers. Examines education of Aboriginal in context of continuing…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Ethnic Groups