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MAORI EDUCATION
Published on May 06, 2016
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Maori Education
Revolution & Transformative Action
An Indigenous journey from struggles to the transformation of Education and Schooling.
In the 1980's the Maori peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand had a reawakening and shifted from waiting for things to be done to them by the colonizers, to being more proactive.
In the 1980's the Maori peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand had a reawakening and shifted from waiting for things to be done to them by the colonizers, to being more proactive.
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Maori
- Geographical context
- Population
- Statistics
Colonization & Assimilation
Maori Education Revolution
Maori
World View
Underachievement & Cultural Erosion
- Survival of language, knowledge and culture
- Schooling and underachievement
Education Revolution
Transformation of the 1980's
Key understanding
with Respect to Development
Key understandings
- Naming your own world
- Taking action
- Unlearning
- Models of resistance
Educational Resistance Initiatives
Transformation
Kaupapa Maori (Intervention principles and elements)
Smith (2000) wrote in hopes that other indigenous peoples around the world may learn and be informed. For example she speaks of a need for indigenous peoples to focus on the fundamental issue of transformation which the Maori believe is crucial if meaningful change is to occur.
1. Principle of Self-determination or Relative Autonomy
Increased control over one's own life and cultural well-being
1. The principle of Self-determination or Relative Autonomy
• Issue: the need by Maori to have increased 'control over one's own life and cultural well-being'
• Maori people are in charge of the key decision-making in schooling, they are able to make choices and decisions that reflect their cultural, political, economic and social preferences. Example, in regard to administration, curriculum, pedagogy and Maori cultural aspirations.
• Issue: the need by Maori to have increased 'control over one's own life and cultural well-being'
• Maori people are in charge of the key decision-making in schooling, they are able to make choices and decisions that reflect their cultural, political, economic and social preferences. Example, in regard to administration, curriculum, pedagogy and Maori cultural aspirations.
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Validating and Legitimating Cultural Aspirations and Identity
2. The principle of validating and legitimating cultural aspirations and identity
• One of the common faults of previous schooling interventions was the inadequate attention paid to supporting the maintenance of Maori culture and identity
• There was little need to justify one's identity, as is the case in most other 'mainstream' educational settings
• Maori parents who were once 'put off' schooling by their own negative experiences, have now become re-committed by the emotional and cultural pull of the Kaupapa Maori approach.
• One of the common faults of previous schooling interventions was the inadequate attention paid to supporting the maintenance of Maori culture and identity
• There was little need to justify one's identity, as is the case in most other 'mainstream' educational settings
• Maori parents who were once 'put off' schooling by their own negative experiences, have now become re-committed by the emotional and cultural pull of the Kaupapa Maori approach.
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Incorporating Culturally Preferred Pedagogy
Teaching and learning settings and practices are able to connect with culture
3. The principle of incorporating culturally preferred pedagogy
• That teaching and learning settings and practices are able to closely and effectively 'connect' with the cultural backgrounds and life circumstances (socio-economic) of Maori communities.
• Teaching and learning choices are 'selected' as being 'culturally preferred'.
• That teaching and learning settings and practices are able to closely and effectively 'connect' with the cultural backgrounds and life circumstances (socio-economic) of Maori communities.
• Teaching and learning choices are 'selected' as being 'culturally preferred'.
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Mediating Socieoeconmic & Home Difficulties
Schooling is a priority despite debilitating social and economic circumstances
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Collectivity Rather Than Individuality
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Shared & Collective Vision & Philosophy
Provides the parameters for the uniqueness that is Maori
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