Celebrating Culture While Enjoying and Achieving Education Success: Collaboration for Public Good or Political Expediency?

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: The Power and Possibilities for the Indigenous Good: The Importance of Indigenous Research and Praxis 2

Abstract

In 2018, the New Zealand Ministry of Education invited a group of ten Mātanga or experts in their field, to consider what a new version of the Te Kotahitanga (unity of purpose) secondary school reform programme, that was terminated in 2013, might look like. The collective experience and evidence about what would work for Māori students ensured that this group could build on the lessons learnt from Te Kotahitanga and subsequent programs, while also considering the current political context and policy system settings.
This paper describes the direction that was set by the Mātanga, and what they believe it will take to influence schooling whereby students from Early Childhood to Secondary can finally enjoy and achieve education success as Māori.

Authors

• Mere Berryman, University of Waikato

• Therese Dale Ford, The University of Waikato

• Lesley Kay Rameka, University of Waikato

• Walter (Wally) Takaha Penetito, Victoria University of Wellington

• Roberta Hunter, Massey University