by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori, Pedagogy
In 2009, the Ministry of Education launched its resource Te Whatu Pōkeka, Kaupapa Māori assessment and learning exemplars. It was a resource that focused on assessment of Māori children in Māori early childhood settings and as Rita Walker said: 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2018 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
Views of children, childhood, children’s roles and responsibilities, and children’s citizenship differ across different eras and cultures (Bath & Karlsson, 2016). In Western countries, developmentalist discourses have positioned the child as a “developing”... 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2014 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
This article discusses aspects of a recent research project in New Zealand, which utilized ethnographic and narrative methodologies to explore the topic of sustainability within 10 early childhood care and education settings (Ritchie et al. 2010). A particular feature... 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2014 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
This chapter offers a series of provocations coming from a critical, place-based orientation, regarding the ways in which early childhood educators, might develop relationships with local Indigenous peoples, in order to strengthen the Indigenous understandings that... 
by Claire | Jun 28, 2013 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori, Uncategorized
This chapter draws on over a decade of research that has focused on the implementation of Te Whāriki: He Mātauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa: Early Childhood Curriculum, with a particular focus on the ways in which educators have been working to uphold the... 
by Claire | Mar 16, 2013 | Articles, Kaupapa Maori
Language cannot be separated out from culture and culture cannot be separated out from language. Could this statement ring more true than that the use of te reo Māori will encourage us to think about ngā tikanga Māori, therefore creating greater bicultural...