UN report gives kohanga reo centres a big tick by Kara Segedin, posted in New Zealand Herald, 20 Jan, 2010
A UN education report has commended New Zealand's kohanga reo early childhood centres for playing an important role in challenging discrimination and building a more multicultural national identity.
Unesco communications officer, Leila Loupis, said the new report, "Reaching the marginalised", looked at how countries have attempted to improve the education provided to indigenous people.
"We take New Zealand's indigenous language movement as a positive example of having contributed to the expansion of education for Maori children," she said.
The report said kohanga reo have provided a social, political and cultural focal point for the empowerment of Maori and have shown how powerful a revitalised indigenous language can be with educational and social benefits.
"With their ethos of self-help and commitment to continuity across generations, kohanga reo became a source of inspiration for young Maori parents."
The report's findings also showed year 11 Maori students enrolled in kura kaupapa immersion schools did significantly better than Maori in English-language schools.
Kohanga reo are whanau co-operatives where children and families are immersed in an environment where the Maori language can flow.
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Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi of the Kohanga Reo National Trust said she was not surprised by the UN's findings.
"It was caught, not taught. That is the fundamental principle of kohanga reo," she said.
Te kohanga reo began in 1981 and the first centre, Pukeatua, was opened near Wellington the following year.
The report says there is encouraging evidence that Maori children - especially girls - are catching up with non-Maori, but the achievement gaps remain large.
Maori are more than three times as likely as non-Maori to leave school with no qualifications.
Dr Pita Sharples, Associate Education Minister, said he was really pleased with Unesco's findings and to see the efforts of kohanga reo and kura kaupapa recognised.
"It was created to save the Maori language and in doing so reinvented a Maori way of teaching," he said.
"We've taken it to New Guinea, North American Indians and Hawaii and watched them adapt."
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
WINHEC Journal 2010 Edition
kia ora, Nga mihi mo te tau hou 2010, hello
Below is a call for WINHEC'S 2010 Edition. Some of my colleagues and I wrote a paper in the 2006 Edition called "Keeping our fire alive:Towards decolonising research in the academic setting". This can be found at site: http://www.win-hec.org/?q=node/92
These journals are a good read especially in the area of Indigenous education. Taima
See below details for the WINHEC Journal 2010 Edition:
World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC): Call For Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
WINHEC JOURNAL 2010 Edition
The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium invites papers for the 2010 edition of the WINHEC Journal.
The WINHEC Journal is an online and printed publication dedicated to the exploration and advancement of issues related to Indigenous education, culture and language faced by WINHEC nations and members.
The 2010 edition will be published in printed and possibly online in August 2010. The theme of this edition is Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Research.
The deadline for Papers is June 15th 2010.
For more information, including the guidelines for Papers, please contact:
Professor Veronica Arbon
veronica.arbon@deakin.edu.au This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
2010 Editor
Institute of Koorie education
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
The previous editions can be reached online at http://www.win-hec.org
Below is a call for WINHEC'S 2010 Edition. Some of my colleagues and I wrote a paper in the 2006 Edition called "Keeping our fire alive:Towards decolonising research in the academic setting". This can be found at site: http://www.win-hec.org/?q=node/92
These journals are a good read especially in the area of Indigenous education. Taima
See below details for the WINHEC Journal 2010 Edition:
World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC): Call For Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
WINHEC JOURNAL 2010 Edition
The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium invites papers for the 2010 edition of the WINHEC Journal.
The WINHEC Journal is an online and printed publication dedicated to the exploration and advancement of issues related to Indigenous education, culture and language faced by WINHEC nations and members.
The 2010 edition will be published in printed and possibly online in August 2010. The theme of this edition is Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Research.
The deadline for Papers is June 15th 2010.
For more information, including the guidelines for Papers, please contact:
Professor Veronica Arbon
veronica.arbon@deakin.edu.au This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
2010 Editor
Institute of Koorie education
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
The previous editions can be reached online at http://www.win-hec.org
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Conference: International Indigenous Problem Gambling Symposium, Rotorua, Aotearoa-New Zealand
Kia ora, below is an invitation from Dr Laurie Morrison (Event Manager) for the International Indigenous Problem Gambling Symposium Conference to be held in Rotorua, 15-17 February 2010.
Te Herenga Waka o Te Ora Whānau proudly present: An International Indigenous Problem Gambling Symposium - Practice, Research and Knowledge Gathering, Tamatekapua Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, Aotearea- New Zealand, 15-17 February 2010.
www.herengawaka.maori.net.nz
The Inaugural Te Herenga Waka o Te Ora Whānau International Indigenous Symposium will focus on traditional indigenous concepts, values, ideals, models and strategies for sustaining balanced and healthy relationships within and across families, communities, nations, nation-states, local, regional and global borders, territories and environments.
The Indigenous Symposium will provide opportunities to discuss indigenous strategies for sustaining relationships between collective gambling providers, for resolving the impacts of gambling within Māori and indigenous communities to restore balance and mana, particularly for those whānau members who have been affected.
This Indigenous Symposium will also be an opportunity to share what has been learnt from diverse contexts from around the world about how indigenous gambling models, values, concepts and processes have been incorporated into state or government initiatives and the impacts of this on indigenous peoples.
The Indigenous Symposium, with associated community workshops and satellite meetings, enables us to bring together in dialogue a wide range of participants, perspectives, voices, frameworks and models for understanding how indigenous people relate to problem gambling issues in their communities. For more information and to register to attend, please see our website www.herengawaka.maori.net.nz
Dr Laurie Morrison (Ngati Whakaue / Te Arawa)Event Manager
email laurie_morrison@xtra.co.nz Ph: +64 (0)7 348 3493 Mob: +64 (0)272595665
1 Ariariterangi Street Ohinemutu Rotorua
Te Herenga Waka o Te Ora Whānau proudly present: An International Indigenous Problem Gambling Symposium - Practice, Research and Knowledge Gathering, Tamatekapua Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, Aotearea- New Zealand, 15-17 February 2010.
www.herengawaka.maori.net.nz
The Inaugural Te Herenga Waka o Te Ora Whānau International Indigenous Symposium will focus on traditional indigenous concepts, values, ideals, models and strategies for sustaining balanced and healthy relationships within and across families, communities, nations, nation-states, local, regional and global borders, territories and environments.
The Indigenous Symposium will provide opportunities to discuss indigenous strategies for sustaining relationships between collective gambling providers, for resolving the impacts of gambling within Māori and indigenous communities to restore balance and mana, particularly for those whānau members who have been affected.
This Indigenous Symposium will also be an opportunity to share what has been learnt from diverse contexts from around the world about how indigenous gambling models, values, concepts and processes have been incorporated into state or government initiatives and the impacts of this on indigenous peoples.
The Indigenous Symposium, with associated community workshops and satellite meetings, enables us to bring together in dialogue a wide range of participants, perspectives, voices, frameworks and models for understanding how indigenous people relate to problem gambling issues in their communities. For more information and to register to attend, please see our website www.herengawaka.maori.net.nz
Dr Laurie Morrison (Ngati Whakaue / Te Arawa)Event Manager
email laurie_morrison@xtra.co.nz Ph: +64 (0)7 348 3493 Mob: +64 (0)272595665
1 Ariariterangi Street Ohinemutu Rotorua
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
MAI Review Journal latest issue
Subject: MAI Review Journal-The latest issue is live now!
MAI Review Journal
http://www.review.mai.ac.nz
The latest issue is live now!
Total number of articles published = 171
Web hits/day average = over 3000
The current issue includes:
Interesting papers on a diverse range of subjects including: two target articles on domestic violence and another on ways of knowing. These are accompanied by a series of invited Peer Commentaries. Other papers explore relationships between Māori culture, Darwinism, genetic technology, a community approach to Kaupapa Māori; and the nature of oral poetry from the perspective of Ngāi Tūhoe.
The Workshop section which addresses questions about copyright and indigenous rights in the digital world; a Māori framework for academic development; and writing with metaphor.
A special section entitled ‘Strategies for Doctoral Study’ marks the presentation of resource notes for students and supervisors that emerge from the Supervision Research Project. This set of 6 papers will be followed in due course by similar sets which will provide further information.
The Resources section which continues to offer efficient access to nation-wide repositories of E-theses, a link to the MAI Central portal, glossaries for translations, a radio link to Hawaii, a link to Ako Āotearoa plus a customised Google search that covers the journal and the wider MAI network.
Call for papers
While we have operational deadlines for each issue, we ask contributors to set your own deadline, prepare the paper and submit it as soon as it’s ready.
MAI Review Journal
http://www.review.mai.ac.nz
The latest issue is live now!
Total number of articles published = 171
Web hits/day average = over 3000
The current issue includes:
Interesting papers on a diverse range of subjects including: two target articles on domestic violence and another on ways of knowing. These are accompanied by a series of invited Peer Commentaries. Other papers explore relationships between Māori culture, Darwinism, genetic technology, a community approach to Kaupapa Māori; and the nature of oral poetry from the perspective of Ngāi Tūhoe.
The Workshop section which addresses questions about copyright and indigenous rights in the digital world; a Māori framework for academic development; and writing with metaphor.
A special section entitled ‘Strategies for Doctoral Study’ marks the presentation of resource notes for students and supervisors that emerge from the Supervision Research Project. This set of 6 papers will be followed in due course by similar sets which will provide further information.
The Resources section which continues to offer efficient access to nation-wide repositories of E-theses, a link to the MAI Central portal, glossaries for translations, a radio link to Hawaii, a link to Ako Āotearoa plus a customised Google search that covers the journal and the wider MAI network.
Call for papers
While we have operational deadlines for each issue, we ask contributors to set your own deadline, prepare the paper and submit it as soon as it’s ready.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Tangata Whenua Social Works Association Formed
TANGATA WHENUA SOCIAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION FORMED (Waatea News, Nov 20,2009)
Maori social workers have formed their own association.
About 100 of the country's 1000 Maori social workers gathered at Pukaki Marae in Mangere day to launch Tangata Whenua Social Workers Association.
Kaumatua Taotahi Pihama says the group will support Maori working for mainstream and iwi providers, and help train new kaimahi to operate effectively with Maori whanau.
He says it will build on work done by previous generations since the first Maori graduate social worker, John Rangihau, in the 1950s.
Maori social workers have formed their own association.
About 100 of the country's 1000 Maori social workers gathered at Pukaki Marae in Mangere day to launch Tangata Whenua Social Workers Association.
Kaumatua Taotahi Pihama says the group will support Maori working for mainstream and iwi providers, and help train new kaimahi to operate effectively with Maori whanau.
He says it will build on work done by previous generations since the first Maori graduate social worker, John Rangihau, in the 1950s.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Fostering review looking in wrong place for touble
FOSTERING REVIEW LOOKING IN WRONG PLACE FOR TROUBLE (Waatea News, 17 Nov 2009).
A veteran Maori social worker says a review of foster care needs to take a Maori way of seeing the world.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has asked whether children placed with extended family are better off than those fostered outside the family, in light of high re-abuse rates for children in whanau care.
But Malcolm Peri, who was involved in the maatua whangai programmes of the 1980s which championed whanau-based care, says Ms Bennett's department has squeezed the kaupapa Maori aspects out of its work with children.
“I can't remember any real effort in the last 20 years the system has put in place to to strengthen Maori families from te ao Maori and I don’t think they give us credit for things Maori have progressed, for the families have been placed with families and have been healed,” Mr Peri says.
He says abandoning Maori programmes would mean going back to failed assimilation policies.
A veteran Maori social worker says a review of foster care needs to take a Maori way of seeing the world.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has asked whether children placed with extended family are better off than those fostered outside the family, in light of high re-abuse rates for children in whanau care.
But Malcolm Peri, who was involved in the maatua whangai programmes of the 1980s which championed whanau-based care, says Ms Bennett's department has squeezed the kaupapa Maori aspects out of its work with children.
“I can't remember any real effort in the last 20 years the system has put in place to to strengthen Maori families from te ao Maori and I don’t think they give us credit for things Maori have progressed, for the families have been placed with families and have been healed,” Mr Peri says.
He says abandoning Maori programmes would mean going back to failed assimilation policies.
Friday, November 13, 2009
New Zealand Government showing interest in Maori-style social services
Govt showing interest in Maori-style social services by Simon Collins, NZ Herald Sat Nov 14, 2009
A radical reshaping of all social services could be imminent if the Government goes ahead with a Maori Party plan to reform services for Maori.
National Party ministers appear to implicitly support Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia's plan to bundle multiple contracts for Maori health, education, housing, justice and social services into integrated "Whanau Ora" contracts covering the whole spectrum of services for regional groups of Maori whanau.
A key worker would be appointed for each family under contracts giving Maori agencies wide scope to co-ordinate support for each family, rather than measuring numbers of doctor's visits and hours of social work, for example.
The plan is inspired by longstanding Maori ambitions for self-determination.
But if it goes ahead, it may be impossible to confine it to Maori families because Maori are now enmeshed in wider New Zealand society. About half the 565,000 people who identified themselves as "Maori" in the 2006 Census also identified with at least one other ethnic group, and half partnered Maori were living with non-Maori partners.
Virtually all the country's 270 Maori health providers, and all 11 Maori-led primary healthcare organisations (PHOs) which have formed a coalition to bid for a Whanau Ora contract, have non-Maori as well as Maori clients.
Mrs Turia said the idea "can be utilised across any ethnic group".
"We are starting with the Maori sector because they are the ones who have constantly raised this with me since I have been in Parliament," she said.
"All we are doing is moving it to that sector and eventually it would move to others as well. The Pacific Island people and the ethnic migrant groups are very keen on this concept because they understand the role of the extended family.
"People get trapped in having to work in a Eurocentric way with their people and they shouldn't have to be."
Submissions on a discussion paper on Whanau Ora close on November 30, and a taskforce led by Professor Mason Durie is to present final proposals to ministers by the end of January.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Tony Ryall last week named the Maori PHO coalition as one of nine consortiums to submit detailed plans by February 15 for new integrated primary healthcare services which may include Whanau Ora proposals.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has also approved a "high-trust" funding trial, bundling all her ministry's contracts into one at Te Tohu o te Ora o Ngati Awa (Ngati Awa Social and Health Services) in Whakatane and at a Catholic youth service in Christchurch.
A radical reshaping of all social services could be imminent if the Government goes ahead with a Maori Party plan to reform services for Maori.
National Party ministers appear to implicitly support Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia's plan to bundle multiple contracts for Maori health, education, housing, justice and social services into integrated "Whanau Ora" contracts covering the whole spectrum of services for regional groups of Maori whanau.
A key worker would be appointed for each family under contracts giving Maori agencies wide scope to co-ordinate support for each family, rather than measuring numbers of doctor's visits and hours of social work, for example.
The plan is inspired by longstanding Maori ambitions for self-determination.
But if it goes ahead, it may be impossible to confine it to Maori families because Maori are now enmeshed in wider New Zealand society. About half the 565,000 people who identified themselves as "Maori" in the 2006 Census also identified with at least one other ethnic group, and half partnered Maori were living with non-Maori partners.
Virtually all the country's 270 Maori health providers, and all 11 Maori-led primary healthcare organisations (PHOs) which have formed a coalition to bid for a Whanau Ora contract, have non-Maori as well as Maori clients.
Mrs Turia said the idea "can be utilised across any ethnic group".
"We are starting with the Maori sector because they are the ones who have constantly raised this with me since I have been in Parliament," she said.
"All we are doing is moving it to that sector and eventually it would move to others as well. The Pacific Island people and the ethnic migrant groups are very keen on this concept because they understand the role of the extended family.
"People get trapped in having to work in a Eurocentric way with their people and they shouldn't have to be."
Submissions on a discussion paper on Whanau Ora close on November 30, and a taskforce led by Professor Mason Durie is to present final proposals to ministers by the end of January.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Tony Ryall last week named the Maori PHO coalition as one of nine consortiums to submit detailed plans by February 15 for new integrated primary healthcare services which may include Whanau Ora proposals.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has also approved a "high-trust" funding trial, bundling all her ministry's contracts into one at Te Tohu o te Ora o Ngati Awa (Ngati Awa Social and Health Services) in Whakatane and at a Catholic youth service in Christchurch.
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