Browsing by Author "Rameka, Lesley Kay"
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Culturally relevant assessment: Kaupapa Māori assessment in early childhood education
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This chant according to Maori tradition is part of the dedication used at the birth of Maui-tikitiki-a-Taranga, the demigod, ancestor superhero of the Pacific. It was also sometimes used to welcome visitors on to marae, ... -
Kaitiakitanga - Active guardianship, responsibilities and relationships with the world: Towards a bio-cultural future In early childhood education
(Springer, 2015)The world is a vast family, and humans are children of the earth and sky, and cousins to all living things. Such unity means that nature is the ultimate teacher about life (Royal 2010, p. 9). For Māori (indigenous peoples ... -
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: ‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past’
(Sage, 2017)This whakataukī or ‘proverb’ speaks to Māori perspectives of time, where the past, the present and the future are viewed as intertwined, and life as a continuous cosmic process. Within this continuous cosmic movement, ... -
Māori and pacific infant and toddler cultural pedagogy: Reclaiming a cultural lens
(PKP Publishing Services, 2017)An Indigenous cultural renaissance emerged in the 1980’s in Aotearoa New Zealand. Communities established early childhood programmes that reflected native spirituality, values, and Indigenous knowledge, with instruction ... -
A Māori and Pacific lens on infant and toddler provision in early childhood education
(Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, 2015)While New Zealand has made major advances in educational provision, Mäori and Pacific chil- dren continue to lag behind other groups, achieving disproportionately lower results on national averages (Marriot & Sim, 2014). ...
