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Learning from the wisdom of elders. Author: Jenny Ritchie
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 they incorporate within their...
Te Whāriki and the promise of early childhood care and education grounded in a commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Author: Jenny Ritchie
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...
Toku reo toku ohooho – my language my awakening. A personal reflection on equality and equity. Author: Lynn Rupe
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...
Being “sociocultural” in early childhood education practice in Aotearoa. Author: Jenny Ritchie
Since 1996, early childhood educators in Aotearoa have worked under the rubric of the first national early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 1996). Te Whāriki has been recognised for its sociocultural emphasis (Nuttall, 2003), which was markedly different...
He taonga te reo: Honouring te reo me ona tikanga, the Māori language and culture, within early childhood education in Aotearoa. Author: Jenny Ritchie
This paper considers data from recent research which illustrates the ways in which tamariki (children), whānau (families) and educators are integrating the use of the Māori language within their everyday educational interactions, as mandated by the bilingual New Zealand early...
Thinking Otherwise: ‘Bicultural’ hybridities in early childhood education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Author: Jenny Ritchie
As we become more overtly aware of the embedded historical memories (O’Loughlin, 2001) that underpin our conscious theoris-ing, our reflections cause us to re-consider long-held assumptions, re-minding our-selves of our complicities and non-com-plicities and our potential to re-shape our own...