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Grounding our collective Talanoa, Enabling open conversations

Abstract
As co-editors in this special issue of the Waikato Journal of Education (WJE), we share our talanoa thoughts and open conversations from the University of Waikato in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), a place and space that has a special relationship with Waikato-Tainui and the Kīngitanga. We acknowledge our ties with Māori as tangata moana (people of the ocean), noting the past as well as the existing vā connections between the Kīngitanga and other Pacific peoples and leaders, including the House of Tupou, the royal family of Tonga. We are also mindful of our responsibility to honour Te Tiriti and to the honouring of tangata whenua and their mana whenua. At the same time, we embrace the ancestral connections between Māori and Pacific people through shared common heritages (Te Punga Somerville, 2012), of voyaging, wayfinding, knowledge and ako by which they settled Moananuiākea (the Hawaiian term for the Pacific Ocean) in one of “the greatest feats in human history” (Hawaii State Legislature, 2021, n.p.). We hope this volume honours those relationships and our shared whakapapa, whanaungatanga, and kaupapa.
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Journal Article
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Citation
Fa’avae, D. T. M., Hemi, K. V., & Aporosa, S. ‘Apo’. (2021). Grounding our collective Talanoa, Enabling open conversations. Waikato Journal of Education. Special Issue: Talanoa Vā: Honouring Pacific Research and Online Engagement, 26, 5–10. https://doi.org/10.15663/wje.v26i1.839
Date
2021
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Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research
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Authors retain copyright of their publications. This article is published under the Creative commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode