NAPP - session 3-4

Mere Berryman - Learning from students.

Wanted to find out what Maori students thought about what "Maori success, as Maori" means.

Currently working on "Kia eke panuku" (95 schools invited - 65 schools came).

Students are now identifying themselves "As Tuhoe" "As Ngati Porou" "As Ngati Whatua" instead of "As Maori"

Kia eke Panuku - www.kep.org.nz

Linking critical theorising (social justice) and Kura kaupapa Maori theories.

Disrupting the system of "I'm the expert and you're the learner"

Sir Mason Durie 2013 - Are we putting students in a position where their mauri is lifted.

"We all have mauri but we don’t all have mana" Durie.

I believe that "Ka Eke Panuku" makes teachers responsible for reflecting on their own teaching pedagogy and makes them take responsibility as a teacher. This resource helps teachers to evaluate how they can co-construct deliberate acts of teaching with context and content that Maori students can relate to.

For some this is means a change in the way they speak, for others this means greater resourcing, for most this means a change in the way they think about Maori in education.

I believe that this is a starting point that is more definitive and directive than "Ka hikitia". It gives teachers strategies when teaching and a point of difference for them to think and reflect upon.

It takes them away from the comfort of 'what works for one, works for all' and become more specific.

Barbara Ala'alatoa - A collective approach to Inquiry.

Step up, step out, why dance (youtube clip)