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The critical issue for the Māori Caucus
The critical issue for the Māori Caucus is to develop the Association’s membership Māori. The Māori Caucus of NZARE supports the interests of members. This year a dual partnership in Maori Caucus will ensure that expressions from all our current Maori membership and potential Māori membership are addressed. Through Māori Caucus you can make contact with other caucus members:
- Cheryl Stephens, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārang, www.wananga.ac.nz - President of the NZARE Council
- Rosina Taniwha, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārang, www.wananga.ac.nz - Māori Caucus
- Agnes McFarland, Massey University College of Education, www.massey.ac.nz Manawatu Campus - Maori Caucus
NEWS
Te Rōpū Reo Māori
» Pānui # Te 17 o Paengawhāwhā 2012 (PDF, 643KB)
Pre- conference Maori Research hui – A success...
This year an opportunity was taken to open up a forum for korero pertaining to research by Maori. The hui was held on 28 November in Tauranga, the day prior to the NZARE conference. The hui provided a venue for sharing our educational research, projects and findings. He wa whakawhanaunga tenei me he wa whakawhiti korero e pa ana ki to tatou rangahau-a-iwi.
This forum was well attended and the presentations of research undertaken by Māori was second to none. Nga mihi, mutunga kore ki a ratou nga kai korero.
In 2012 the NZARE conference will be in Australia and we are working towards having a repeat pre-conference indigenous forum with our indigenous whānau in Australia. Details will be provided as they develop. Watch this space!!
Critical issues forum
» Download Critical Issues e-Invite in PDF format (PDF, 61KB)
OF INTEREST
Haemata – Living language and Education , te reo, kia ora, te ako, kia pakari www.haemata.co.nz
He Kākano http://hekakano.tki.org.nz/
He Kākano is a strategic school-based professional development programme with an explicit focus on improving culturally responsive leadership and teacher practices to ensure Māori learners enjoy educational success as Māori. The strategic intent of the project is to improve the emotional, social, cultural and academic outcomes of Māori children.
Indigenous Studies Research network www.isrn.qut.edu.au
 PUBLICATIONS
He Pukenga Kōrero
He Pukenga Kōrero is a refereed journal covering a wide range of articles in either Māori and/or English encompassing historical and contemporary issues relevant to Māori Studies. Priority is given to papers relevant to Māori language, or Māori cultural, social or economic development.
We are in the process of creating a new online website for the journal, http://www.hepukengakorero.com, which will be launched soon.
We are now accepting papers for edition 10.2. Please refer to the attachments for information on submission and formatting requirements.
» Download He Pukenga Kōrero notes for contributors (PDF, 488KB)
» Download He Pukenga Kōrero article template (Word, 392KB)
Contents of back issues and information on subscriptions can be found at http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-maori-studies/
publications/he-pukenga-korero/he-pukenga-korero_home.cfm
Webpage: http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-maori-studies/
publications/he-pukenga-korero/he-pukenga-korero_home.cfm
A Māori and Pacific edition of NZCER's journal for teachers
A Māori and Pacific edition of NZCER's journal for teachers, 'Set', will be published during Matariki in 2012.
» Download Panui calling for contributions to set Maori & Pacific edition 2012 (PDF, 560KB)
Forthcoming New Zealand Conferences
» New Zealand conferences 2012
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Overseas conferences
» Overseas conferences 2012
» Overseas educational conferences 2012 on Google
International Indigenous issues…a concern for us all
TUCSON -- Outrage was the response to the news that Tucson schools has banned books, including "Rethinking Columbus," with an essay by award-winning Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko, who lives in Tucson, and works by Buffy Sainte Marie, Winona LaDuke, Leonard Peltier and Rigoberta Menchu.
The decision to ban books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the state decision. Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened. The banned book, "Rethinking Columbus," includes work by many Native Americans, as Debbie Reese reports, the book includes:
Suzan Shown Harjo's "We Have No Reason to Celebrate"
Buffy Sainte-Marie's "My Country, 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying"
Joseph Bruchac's "A Friend of the Indians"
Cornel Pewewardy's "A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas"
N. Scott Momaday's "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"
Michael Dorris's "Why I'm Not Thankful for Thanksgiving"
Leslie Marmon's "Ceremony"
Wendy Rose's "Three Thousand Dollar Death Song"
Winona LaDuke's "To the Women of the World: Our Future, Our Responsibility"
The now banned reading list of the Tucson schools' Mexican American Studies includes two books by Native American author Sherman Alexie and a book of poetry by O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda.
The list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook “Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years,” which features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko. Recipient of a Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, Silko has been an outspoken supporter of the ethnic studies program. Biggers said Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest," was also banned during the meeting this week. Administrators told Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any class units where “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes."
Other banned books include “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by famed Brazilian educator Paolo Freire and “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos” by Rodolfo Acuña, two books often singled out by Arizona state superintendent of public instruction John Huppenthal, who campaigned in 2010 on the promise to “stop la raza.” Huppenthal, who once lectured state educators that he based his own school principles for children on corporate management schemes of the Fortune 500, compared Mexican-American studies to Hitler Jugend indoctrination last fall.
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/
Bill Bigelow, co-author of Rethinking Columbus, writes: Imagine our surprise. Rethinking Schools learned today that for the first time in its more-than-20-year history, our book Rethinking Columbus was banned by a school district: Tucson, Arizona ...As I mentioned to Biggers when we spoke, the last time a book of mine was outlawed was during the state of emergency in apartheid South Africa in 1986, when the regime there banned the curriculum I’d written, Strangers in Their Own Country, likely because it included excerpts from a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Confronting massive opposition at home and abroad, the white minority government feared for its life in 1986. It’s worth asking what the school authorities in Arizona fear today.
http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/rethinking-columbus-banned-in-tucson
Roberto Rodriguez, professor at University of Arizona, is also among the nation's top Chicano and Latino authors on the Mexican American Studies reading list. Rodriguez' column about this week's school board decision, posted at Censored News, is titled: "Tucson school officials caught on tape 'urinating' on Mexican students."
http://drcintli.blogspot.com/
Rodriguez responded to Narco New about the ban on Sunday. "The attacks in Arizona are mind-boggling. To ban the teaching of a discipline is draconian in and of itself. However, there is also now a banned books list that accompanies the ban. I believe 2 of my books are on the list, which includes: Justice: A Question of Race and The X in La Raza. Two others may also be on the list," Rodriguez said. "That in itself is jarring, but we need to remember the proper context. This is not simply a book-banning; according to Tom Horne, the former state scools' superintendent who designed HB 2281, this is part of a civilizational war. He determined that Mexican American Studies is not based on Greco-Roman knowledge and thus, lies outside of Western Civilization. In a sense, he is correct. The philosophical foundation for MAS is a maiz-based philosophy that is both, thousands of years old and Indigenous to this continent. What has just happened is akin to an Auto de Fe -- akin to the 1562 book-burning of Maya books in 1562 at Mani, Yucatan. At TUSD, the list of banned books will total perhaps 50 books, including artwork and posters.
"For us here in Tucson, this is not over. If anything, the banning of books will let the world know precisely what kind of mindset is operating here; in that previous era, this would be referred to as a reduccion (cultural genocide) of all things Indigenous. In this era, it can too also be see as a reduccion." The reading list includes world acclaimed Chicano and Latino authors, along with Native American authors. The list includes books by Corky Gonzales, along with Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on Mango Street;” Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “Black Mesa Poems,“ and L.A. Urreas’ “The Devil’s Highway.“ The authors include Henry David Thoreau and the popular book “Like Water for Chocolate.” On the reading list are Native American author Sherman Alexie's books, “Ten Little Indians,“ and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven.“ O’odham poet and professor Ofelia Zepeda’s “Ocean Power, Poems from the Desert” is also on the list.
DA Morales writes in Three Sonorans, at Tucson Citizen, about the role of state schools chief John Huppenthal. "Big Brother Huppenthal has taken his TEA Party vows to take back Arizona… take it back a few centuries with official book bans that include Shakespeare!"
AWARDS
NZARE Group Award
The NZARE Group Award alternates between quantitative, Måori and Pasifika group research. The award comprises a written citation and a cash prize of $1000. More about the NZARE Group Award...
Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award
Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award for research in Māori Education recognises researchers
who have made a significant contribution to Māori education by conducting high quality
research over an extended period of time. The Award comprises a written citation,
a taonga and cash prize of $1500. More about the
Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award...
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