18.015 - Diversity in Community: Indigenous Scholars Writing

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In the contemporary era where publish or perish has become the dictum for academics amid the mushrooming of numerous journals, the Māori and Indigenous Graduate Enhancement (MAI) programme [for doctoral candidates] and the International Indigenous Writing Retreat (IWR) [for senior scholars] organised by Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) offer sanctuary, par excellence, for a community of diverse Indigenous scholars to learn to write better than before. These retreats are where distinguished quality Indigenous research, exemplary enthusiasm and devotion to good spirits are interwoven with affection and sympathy for other people, and appreciation for beautiful things to provide the scholars impartial platforms where the outcome of their relentless toil to know Indigenous wisdoms and to seek western science finds expression in writing.

Sub Unit

• New Zealand Association for Research in Education - NZARE

Chair

• Charmaine Iwalani Kaimikaua, Loyola Marymount University

Papers

• Tuakana-Taina: A Pedagogy of Māori Doctoral Study and Research - Cheryl E. Stephens, Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru Education Trust

• Fakakoloa he kaungāfonongá: A Tongan Perspective on Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga International Writing Retreats - Linita Manu'atu, AUT University

• Pono and a Write Retreat - Tangiwai Kepa, NZARE

Discussants

• Paul Whitinui, University of Otago

• Onowa McIvor, University of Victoria