Research methodology

Once were navigators. Reclaiming ancestral navigational methods as a methodological research practice

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
Polynesian navigation
Research methodology
mātauranga Māori
maramataka
Te Arahina
Author(s): 
Cadence Kaumoana
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2021.10.2.7

This article identifies the entrepreneurial mindset as a resolve to engage in exploration and action in order to address an issue or accomplish a goal. Entrepreneurial mindset, in the context of navigation, espouses an expectation of resilience, analysis, adjustment, application and development in all areas of intention. For thousands of years, Polynesian navigators negotiated the unpredictable and unknown Pacific islands, waters, winds and rains to voyage the breadth of the Pacific Ocean.

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The Use of Exercise Physiology in the Advancement of Māori Well-Being: The Application of Kaupapa in Lab-Based Research

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
Research methodology
Exercise science
Māori health
Indigenous health services
Exercise
Physical
Author(s): 
Isaac Warbrick
Amohia Boulton
Stephen Stannard and Chris Cunningham

Type-2 diabetes and other illnesses associated with a sedentary lifestyle have a high prevalence among Māori. While the application of knowledge from exercise physiology, a specific discipline of the health sciences, could be used to enhance Māori health aspirations, Māori-led research in this field is relatively uncommon. Exercise physiology seeks to understand physical performance and the relationships between fitness, body composition, health and illness. Rarely have the key tenets of exercise physiology been applied to Māori populations.

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