Education

The experiences of whānau and kaiako with Speech-Language Therapy in Kaupapa Māori education

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
speech-language therapy
kaupapa Māori research
Education
kōhanga reo
Author(s): 
Ellen Faithfull
Karen M. Brewer
Linda Hand
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2020.9.3.3

In New Zealand, speech-language therapists work through both the health and the education systems. In common with many Indigenous peoples, Māori have faced inequities in both health and education for decades. Kaupapa Māori education systems have been developed to support educational success and the survival of kaupapa Māori knowledge and te reo Māori. However, disparities between Māori and non-Māori still exist in the delivery of speech-language therapy services.

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Te kura mai i tawhiti research programme: A collaborative lifecourse approach to health, wellbeing and whānau development

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
Māori
lifecourse
Education
Health
Whānau
child
Author(s): 
Mihi Ratima
Reremoana Theodore
Aroaro Tamati
Erana Hond-Flavell
Will Edwards
Hinerangi Korewha
Gareth J. Treharne
Ruakere Hond
David Craig
Richie Poulton
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2019.8.1.5

Lifecourse research examines people’s trajectories through life and factors that influence those trajectories. It has the potential to build an evidence base around programmes that are effective for Māori. This paper describes the development and initial stages of Te Kura Mai i Tawhiti (TKMT), an innovative long-term research programme run as a collaboration between Taranaki Māori community organisation Te Pou Tiringa and the University of Otago’s National Centre for Lifecourse Research.

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Rebuilding a ‘whare’ body of knowledge to inform ‘a’ Māori perspective of health

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
whare tapa whā
hauora
Māori health
well-being
curriculum
Education
Author(s): 
Sharyn Heaton

This article explores and expands the discourse around the whare tapa whā which has been depicted in New Zealand curricula and in educational literature as a contemporary Māori model of health, as a Māori perspective of health, as a Māori philosophy of hauora and as a four-sided meeting house. 

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