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MĀori Caucus EVENTS 2008

NZARE Rae Munroe Recipient Profile: Hine Waitere

Hine Waitere of Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Kahungunu and Tuhoe descent was the recipient of the Rae Munroe award in 1999.  Her dissertation Te kete, The Briefcase, Te Tuara: The Balancing Act - Maori Women in the Primary Sector explored the critical factors contributing to the success of Maori women in positions of responsibility working across immersion, bilingual and general stream programmes. Hine sees the award as having a critical catalytic role that underpins a number of opportunities that she has taken up since receiving the award. One opportunity that Hine took up subsequent to the award ceremony was the invitation to take up doctoral study in the states. The recognition also helped secure a Fulbright scholarship which enabled her to take her family with her. Hine returned from the University of Wisconsin Madison to a position in Te Uru Maraurau: Maori and Multicultural Education and is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Education Studies at Massey University teaching primarily in the M.Ed.Admin programme.

Hine Waitere-Ang, Massey University
Email: H.J.Waitere-Ang@massey.ac.nz

NEWS

Malia Villegas returned to Seattle, USA after 11 months in Aotearoa New Zealand as a Fullbright Scholar. Recently, Malia published a piece of writing in the Harvard Education Review's Winter Issue 2008. She commenced writing the piece in the Senior Scholars, Writers and Researchers Writing Retreat held in Rotorua and sponsored by Nga Pae o te Maramatanga.

» See http://www.hepg.org/her/abstract/666

Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholarships Announced

Joanna Kidman has been selected as a Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholars for
2009, allowing her to conduct research about New Zealand’s education sector at a
top American university.

Education researcher Dr Joanna Kidman from Wellington will join a multinational study of indigenous student motivation at the University of New Hampshire. Joanna (Te Arawa, Te Aupōuri) is a Senior Lecturer in Education at He Parekereke, Victoria University of Wellington. She will contribute to a multinational research project on indigenous children’s motivation in science classrooms at the University of New Hampshire. Her own data on Māori students will be analysed alongside that from fellow researchers in Taiwan and Belize as part of the study, which is the first of a number of collaborative projects planned by a multidisciplinary group of indigenous education researchers from the United States of America, New Zealand, Hawai‘i, Canada, Taiwan and the Russian Altai Republic. “Māori children’s levels of motivation and educational achievement are a key area of education policy in New Zealand,” she says. “Over the past decade researchers in the United States have begun to re-evaluate the influence of cultural context and accord it greater importance in children’s motivation to learn. These approaches may provide educational policy makers and practitioners in New Zealand with a fresh way of thinking about indigenous Māori education

Research opportunities

The Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 2009 funding calls were available at
www.maramatanga.co.nz

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Jenkins,H., et al (2006). Te Korowai Ākonga; Reweaving the cloak. Paper presented at the New Zealand Association for Research in Education Conference, Rotorua NZ, 6-9 December 2006, p. 11.

Stucki, P., Kahu, A., Jenkins, H., Kane, R., and Bruce-Ferguson, P. (2006). Beginning Maori Teachers:  Analysing the Forces Which Shape the First Year of Teaching. Wellington, New Zealand Council for Education Research.

Kēpa, M (2008) Language Matters. A Richer and Curious Approach to Teaching
English. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co: Germany. ISBN: 978-3-
8364-9198-3

Webber, M. (2008). Walking the space between: Identity and Māori/Pākehā. New
Zealand Council for Educational Research: Wellington.

A flyer for Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal is now available.

» Download publisher's flyer (PDF, 360KB)

New Publications

Title: Leaving a Legacy of Hope: Stories by New Generation Pacific Islands Students.
Co-authors: Dr Kabini Sanga and Dr Cherie Chu
Published 2008 by He Parekereke: Institute for Research & Development in Maori and Pacific Education Faculty of Education/Ako Pai Victoria, University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington.

» Go to abstract from South Pacific Books

Indigenous Peoples and United Nations Human Rights Bodies. A Compilation of UN Treaty Body Jurisprudence and the Recommendations of the Human Rights Council, Volume III, 2007-2008.

» Download document (PDF, 756KB)

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

The following paper from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations, Seventh session, New York, 21 April -2 May 2008, can now be accessed online:

FORMS OF EDUCATION OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?

Lars Anders-Baer. Paper prepared in cooperation with Ole Henrik-Magga, Robert Dunbar and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.

This paper forms part of the implementation of recommendations on the Six mandated areas of the Forum and on the Millennium Development Goals, Half-day discussion on indigenous languages.

» http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/E_C19_2008_7.pdf

BOOK REVIEWS

Abu-Saad, K. ,Horowitz, T., & Abu-Saad, I. (2007). Weaving Tradition and Modernity Bedouin Women in Higher Education. The Centre for Bedouin Studies & Development Research Unit Center for Regional Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Reviewed by Mere Kēpa, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga/The Centre of Research Excellence for Māori Development and Advancement, University of Auckland.

» Download review (PDF, 80 KB)

Edwards, M. (2002) Mihipeka. Call of an Elder. Karanga a te Kuia. Steele Roberts Ltd: Wellington

Reviewed by Mere Kēpa, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga/The Centre of Research Excellence for Māori Development and Advancement, University of Auckland.

» Download review (PDF, 108 KB)

From the 2008 NZARE conference

On Wednesday, 26 November, Dr Mere Kēpa, Mrs Betty McPherson, Mrs Paea Smith and Mrs Leiana Reynolds (L-R), members of the RopuKaitiaki for the Living to an Advanced Age Feasibility Cohort Study, School of Population Health, the University of Auckland presented their insights on “The Action of Advice” to an assiduous audience of Māori, Tongan and Samoan conference participants.

Dr Mere Kēpa, Mrs Betty McPherson, Mrs Paea Smith and Mrs Leiana Reynolds (L-R)

MĀori Caucus EVENTS 2006

The recipient of the 2006 Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award was Margie Hohepa from the University of Auckland. See photo from the 2006 award ceremony.