COVID-19 and Quality in Indigenous Tertiary Education

Abstract

Over the last decade, there have been two major shifts across the global education landscape, namely the emphasis on quality movement and the rise of indigenous voices. In tertiary education, the quality of teaching and learning is linked to a complex environment of expectations set through policy and stakeholders' demands. The teaching and learning quality in indigenous tertiary education organisations has added complexities; teachers and students are required to navigate two worlds, neoliberal and indigenous, simultaneously. The values and expectations of these two worlds are influenced by distinct worldviews resulting in tensions. At the onset of the year 2020, another layer of complexity became unavoidable: the teaching and learning shift to online delivery resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter provides a view of the teaching and learning quality of the online delivery within the Bachelor of Social Work programme in a Wānanga or Māori Tertiary Education organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand.