This paper focuses on evolving Māori centred qualitative research methods, and the cross-cultural relationship between two researchers who identify respectively as Māori and Pākehā New Zealanders. The researchers discuss methodology issues which surrounded the school based Te Whakapakari research project. The project's aim was to raise the academic achievement of Maori (indigenous New Zealanders) mainstreamed children. The writers discuss their theoretical and personal backgrounds, and the accommodations they each made to meet the goals of the project. The writers argue that the face-to-face aspects ( he kanohi kitea) of the project were integral to the project's success. The qualitative research based project included action research, and Māori-based professional development. A Freirean approach was integral to professional development. The writers worked alongside six teachers and school leaders.
This paper considers the question: What constitutes an optimal learning environment for Māori learners in foundation programmes? Using Kaupapa Māori methodology, nearly 100 adult Māori (Indigenous) students in Aotearoa/ New Zealand were interviewed from a range of tertiary providers of foundation programmes. State-funded foundation programmes that scaffold adults into tertiary education are a partial response to Ministry of Education concerns about unsatisfactory high school statistics for some sections of the community. Connecting with Māori voices enabled the researchers to gain a deeper awareness of the reality of study experiences for these adult learners. It is argued that academic participation and success for adult Māori learners is increased when the learning and teaching environment mirrors the connectedness and belonging of a whānau (family) environment.
This paper examines the development of two iterations of mathematics curricula over a 15-year period for classrooms teaching in te reo Māori, the endangered Indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand. Similarities and differences between the two iterations are identified. Although parameters set by the New Zealand Ministry of Education about what the curricula would look like and how they would be developed were not always commensurate with Māori aspirations, analysis suggests that Māori were able to use opportunities to ensure that their agendas for language development and revitalisation were achieved. Spaces were made available because of the government's ideological assumptions, but were used by Māori to achieve their ideological aims. However, neither iteration was smooth, with Māori having to determine how to operate within these contested spaces. The result of Māori requirements to have language recognised as an important issue was that both process and product of curriculum development were affected.
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