by Claire | May 8, 2024 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
This article illustrates how traditional Māori forms of knowing, such as whakapapa, can provide culturally valid frames for assessment within contemporary Māori early childhood contexts. I discuss work completed for my doctoral thesis (Rameka, 2012), which studied the... 
by Claire | Mar 5, 2024 | Articles, Leadership, Pedagogy
Making this visible by writing Learning Stories that enable children, families and teachers to have a voice. Leadership for all leads to learning for all. Yet what kind of leadership and what kind of learning? 
by Claire | Sep 12, 2023 | Kaupapa Māori
On our Forest/Farm Adventures, we get to go to places that are unique and very special to tangata whenua. These places resonate with us as tangata triti too – the partners of The Treaty of Waitangi. I had been thinking about te ngahere, and wondered how could we... 
by Claire | Sep 12, 2023 | Kaupapa Māori
Enthralled in the beauty of the uku, Daniel finds his creative flow. With his mauri balanced and in a state thatebbs and flows between ‘oho’, ‘tau’, and ‘ora’ learning is limitless and there are endless possibilities. 
by Claire | Jul 17, 2023 | Articles, Pedagogy
The thoughts expressed here were presented at the Auckland College of Education Professional Development Symposium The Politics of Early Childhood Education in June, 2001. These thoughts continue to be part of a personal journey into an area of teaching that has...