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Improving teaching practice through Indigenous learning models
Get PDFAs an educator learning theories, frameworks and models play an important role when achieving learner success. An educator’s flexibility and blended teaching skills can make all the difference when challenged with a class of diversity and various learning abilities. In this essay three learning theories will be discussed along with how it is applied within a learning situation. A comparison of the theories will discuss the similarities and differences, followed by a personal reflection of the significance within a teaching practice
The potential effects of COVID-19 on research interviews in Year 2 of the Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge programme at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa in Māngere
Get PDFCOVID-19 has made it difficult for researchers to engage in traditional qualitative data collection methods, such as interviews because physical distancing is required to prevent the spread of the virus (Dodds & Hess, 2020; Roy & Uekusa, 2020). The effects of COVID-19 on qualitative research methods means that researchers must develop and use a “variety of creative, innovative and unconventional strategies” (Roy & Uekusa, 2020, n.p) as “distance approaches to collecting qualitative data” (Taster, 2020, p. 8). In the Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge (MAIK) programme taught at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa in Māngere, students have typically used interviews as a method of generating data for analysis. COVID-19 means that students must be prepared to conduct the interviews required for their research in quite different ways. This may include social distancing measures, the use of hand sanitiser and face masks, the avoidance of handshaking and hongi (see Rangiwai, 2020), and other health recommendations. It may also mean forgoing in-person interviews for online ones. This paper will briefly explain the MAIK programme and the potential effects of COVID-19 on the interviews process. This article will argue that if online interviews are to take place, they must be done in a culturally appropriate manner
Two Suns? The State of Amazon? Bezonomics, market control and the algorithmic state.
Get PDF[Video]: Two Suns? The State of Amazon?Why do people vote? What do they need?
The book Bezonomics by Brian Dumaine has got me back to thinking about such questions. People might vote for better quality of life and Amazon, the company founded by Bezos might now be supplying this according to what people like. Amazon offers options to prefer across their lives
“My heart goes shut up, shut up!”: Gay marriage to an Indian man—one year on
Get PDFI am Māori, gay and married to an Indian man. We have been married for a year now. I cannot identify my lawfully wedded “partner”[1] because he comes from a culture that is so ultra-conservative, that to do so would cause for him a deep and certain social death. I do not post pictures of him on social media. He does not have Facebook, but if he did, I would not tag him into any posts. I do not have “married” as my relationship status on Facebook as it would cause questions to be asked that I would not be able to answer without exposing him. Being in a same-sex marriage with an Indian man is difficult to say the least. My heart literally goes “shut up, shut up!”
 
Digital marketing in Māori higher education: A case study of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Get PDFThe shift to neoliberalism in the 1980s meant that higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand became business-orientated—a situation which prevails today (Narayan, 2020; Olssen, 2002). The digitisation of business means that for businesses to remain relevant, they must embrace digital marketing (Herhausen et al., 2020; Makrides et al., 2020). Indeed, in higher education, too, the need for digital marketing is inescapable (Sawlani & Susilo, 2020). This paper will discuss digital marketing in higher education and will look specifically at some aspects of the digital marketing approach of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. This paper will begin with a very brief history of Māori business during the early colonial period, as well as a short description of contemporary Māori business. This article will discuss the most current understandings of digital marketing in higher education. Importantly, this paper will use the three relationship marketing success factors identified by John (2020)—trust, commitment, and service orientation—and relate these to the four values of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (2020)—Te Aroha, Te Whakapono, Ngā Ture, and Kotahitanga—as a means of identifying gaps in Te Wānanga o Aotearoa’s current digital marketing approach
Supervision in the Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge programme at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa in Māngere
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to explain briefly the voluntary roles of the Indigenous Master Practitioner (IMP) and tuakana/supervisor in the Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge (MAIK) programme at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa in Māngere. This paper will concisely explain the MAIK programme and the roles of IMP and tuakana/supervisor. This paper will present a model of supervision that was used by the author to supervise ten students successfully; it is intended that IMPs and tuakana/supervisors might consult the model if they do not already have an approach of their own
Māori-language newspapers 1842-1945: A survey, with a focus on the expression of oral tikanga on the page
Get PDFThis paper canvasses Māori-language print media from the first monolingual newspaper in te reo Māori (the Māori language) in 1842 to what is believed to be the last, in 1945. It sets the publications in their social contexts and, importantly, discusses the ways in which the customs of oral culture transferred to the page. Also traversed are the ways in which the arrival of the telegraph and the development of journalistic conventions in the late 1800s changed the style of Māori-language news writing. Links go to digitised copies of the 18th century newspapers and credible, related sources of information
Of Kings and Cobots
Get PDF[Video] Of Kings and Cobots
In the previous paper and video presentation a consideration of Amazon as a market place of some authority was made. The primary source there and in the course of this series is Brian Dumaine’s book Bezonomics (Dumaine 2020). I want to acknowledge that influence especially for matters of fact here. In this series I have put my own construction on an extremely good compilation of detail on Amazon by Dumaine. Other figures are cited when the source is not Dumaine.
 
Te Utu
Get PDFWhangape, 1528, ko Korekore te whiwhia te maramataka.
Taiao and his army went hunting for birds and set snares. While they were there, Taiao saw the gutless pig, who killed his father twelve years ago. After Taiao saw Te Pō in the distance, he instructed his troops with his taiaha to stop and be stealthy. Taiao crouched under the cover of the bushes and watched, stalking Te Pō and his small ope.
While watching Te Pō, Taiao had intermittent, yet vivid flashbacks of the night his papa kāinga was attacked by Te Pō and his troops, 12 years ago. 
From Performance to Performativity: The Christchurch Mosque Murders and What Came After
Get PDFOn Friday 15th March 2019, a white Australian man armed with assault weapons attacked Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Fifty-one people were murdered. Another 49 were injured. Families and their communities were devastated. Almost a year later, they are evermore deeply into the hard, impossibly sad process of recovery. The city of Christchurch, still reeling from the catastrophic earthquakes of 2010-2011, took the blow to its determinedly imperturbable façade hard, but is now moving on. Aotearoa New Zealand likewise. Staged as a series of performances, the attack and its aftermath were also acutely performative. The gunman transmitted the images and sounds of his white-supremacist-fuelled, assault-weaponized violence via livestream on Facebook: himself the protagonist, his victims the unwitting antagonists in a filmed performance for an unseen audience. In response, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern immediately took centre-stage: meeting the media, comforting the victims, commending the first responders, and leading two commemorative events on public platforms set up in the park across from Masjid Al Noor, the primary target. There were other, more ad hoc, performances, too, including haka (ritual chant/dance) by school groups, gang members and other odd individuals in front of Masjid Al Noor. Almost immediately after the mosque murders, plans for films, television specials and serials, and theatre performances began proliferating exponentially. This essay reflects on questions of performance and performativity in the wake of the mosque murders.