Toward Justice: Challenging the Inequities of Policy

• In Event: 33.078 - Roundtable Session 11
  In Roundtable Session: 33.078-14 - Toward Justice for Indigenous Peoples: Education Research and Praxis 1

Abstract

The framework for justice is premised on the rights of indigenous peoples to their own self determination: decision making by indigenous peoples for indigenous peoples (Smith 1986) and the articulation of our own cultural nuances to reinforce indigenous knowledge, culture and language. At the base of NZ government policy however, is an economical agenda that runs counter to our cultural self-determination.
This symposium examines changes to government policy and consequences for an indigenous (Maori) higher education institution (Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi- NZ). The session develops a framework of critique for how colonisation continues in the policy arena through two specific avenues; the inclusion of Awanuiarangi as an addendum to the main policy agenda and secondly, no inclusion at all.

Authors

• Graham H. Smith, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

• Patricia Maringi Gina Johnston, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi

• Wiremu Doherty, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi

• Cheryl E. Stephens, Te Horomai Consultancy