• “BODY-SNATCHING”: Changes to coroners legislation and possible Māori responses 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, 2009)

  The term body-snatcher has enjoyed a renaissance in the media recently, as various Māori have moved to reclaim their deceased relations. From a Māori perspective, the claiming of bodies has nothing to do with body-snatching, ...

  

• A chance for ontology 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, 2010)

  This paper speaks to Hook’s thesis that a National Māori University needs to be established. However, it sets about this task by designating Hook’s intended central concerns to the outer reaches of his article’s limits, ...

  

• Lost in translation: western representations of Māori knowledge 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira; Stewart, Georgina Marjorie (Routledge, 2017)

  We recently attended a conference at which a non-Māori presenter, drawing on a particular metaphor already established by Māori writers, related Māori natural world features to a research method. The presentation was ...

  

• Maori thinking with a dead white male: Philosophizing in the realm of Novalis 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014)

  In this paper I shall discuss my experiences of referring to Novalis in the context of Maori postcolonialism and metaphysical philosophy. As with other methods of research, from a Maori perspective one always alights on ...

  

• Overcoming ‘Being’ in Favour of Knowledge: The fixing effect of ‘mātauranga’ 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

  It is common to hear Māori discuss primordial states of Being, yet in colonisation those very central beliefs are forced into weaker utterances. In this process those utterances merely conform to a colonised agenda. ...

• Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Saskatchewan Canada: A comparative study 

  Green, Jane Alison (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  For more than two decades, components of Māori knowledges in the form of Māori words and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that engages Māori words and concepts resonates with ...

  

• How prepared are Pākehā tertiary teachers to teach Māori students? Teachers’ own perceptions of their preparedness 

  Honey, Sandra Elizabeth (University of Waikato, 2014)

  In the past three decades New Zealand has seen an increasing government commitment to realising the promises of both equality and tino rangatiratanga embedded in the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. There is acknowledgement ...

  

• Holistic Education: A Vision for 21st Century New Zealand Primary School Classrooms 

  Hall, Sherilyn (University of Waikato, 2014)

  In today’s world, teachers in New Zealand primary schools struggle to meet the requirements of an over-full curriculum and pressure from politicians to raise student achievement. Despite a curriculum document that speaks ...

  

• Māori Cultural Identity and Education 

  Hawaikirangi-Pere, Charmaine (University of Waikato, 2013)

  Underachievement of Māori students in mainstream schools has been a major topic of discussion by politicians and educational researchers in recent years. Research has shown that a secure cultural identity can enhance a ...

  

• How Maori have been affected through the notion and practice of schooling: A theoretical analysis 

  Williamson, Laurie Thomas (University of Waikato, 2012)

  Education has always been associated according to the public with a necessary function to equip individuals to fit into society when they reach adulthood. The fact that it functions with efficiency is attributed in part ...

  

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