Introduces Te Waka Pounamu, a whakapapa-based framework developed as a methodological research model for the author's doctoral studies, including the tikanga Māori model 'Te Tuamaka'. Demonstrates ...how Te Waka Pounamu and Te Tuamaka promote Māori ways of knowing, being and doing as valid methodological approaches to rangahau. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Introduces Whatuora, a kaupapa Māori arts-based methodology that emerged from research about living as Māori women and the stories the women spoke and wove into the Māori cloaks they created. Source: ...National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Explores the ways rangatahi Māori living in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) make sense of and live ‘hāpai te hauora’ - what they describe as ‘breathing your ancestors into life’ - through sharing their ...stories of navigating wellbeing expressed through art, design and co-creation. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Wananga as a research methodology Mahuika, Nēpia; Mahuika, Rangimārie
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Wananga is a traditional method of Maori knowledge transmission, and has been described as a place, a school, an act, and a form of governance, practice, and pedagogy. Much of the writing on wananga ...focuses on the ancient "lore" of Whare Wananga (Houses of Learning), but more recent work has explored how that pedagogical tradition is relevant to Maori education today, particularly at tertiary level. There is, however, a growing body of writing on wananga as a research methodology relevant to Maori and iwi (tribal) communities. This paper discusses the increasingly popular use of wananga in Maori research practice, examining the definitions, roots, and evolution of wananga as a concept, place, and indigenous method of knowledge construction and transmission. Drawing on wananga experiences in two different tribal contexts, this paper explores how wananga works as a practice embedded in, and shaped by, local knowledge, language, place, people and tikanga.
Illuminates the emergent academic practice of writing doctoral theses in te reo Māori, featuring the experiences of graduates, supervisors, examiners and senior administrators involved in this ...pathway. Narrates the reo Māori doctoral journey from enrolment to oral examination, and draws attention to relevant factors, including particular university policies and processes. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Hui and hui runanga, Maori decision-making gatherings, are vital in Maori constitutionalism. Hui demonstrate the practical exercise of tikanga Maori. There is a set of relatively stable Maori legal ...norms, derived from tikanga Maori, that can be seen at work in such hui-based decision-making. These norms (mana, tapu, whakapapa, whanaungatanga and rangatiratanga) serve to strengthen and demonstrate group processes. They arguably do not establish merely optional guidelines for group behaviour; they can serve to constrain decision-making. A case study set in a hui in a modern Maori urban context serves to demonstrate the exercise of such Maori legal norms in civic decision-making.
Outlines the development of a kaupapa whānau research framework developed by whānau involved in a whānau-inspired initiative at their marae, the Reweti whānau hui (RWH). Overviews different whānau ...research strategies, then provides the background context of the RHI, the researcher positionality, and the tikanga-guided approach to research. Introduces the conceptualisation of the kaupapa whānau framework. Discusses the components of the framework : whakapapa, wairua, kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua, wānanga and mana ake. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Relates her personal journey toward understanding her whakapapa and her place within academia. Utilises the four stages of Kolb’s experiential model to provide concrete examples of complex ...situations, reflect on their meanings, conceptualise these meanings to make sense of them, and move towards locating self as a Māori academic and researcher. Comments on her search for authenticity and the barriers to exploring whakapapa. Makes the case for academics who are Māori to explore their cultural identity, to further understand issues of equity and identity for Māori students and colleagues. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
We provide a critical review of mindfulness research, focusing on three core areas and questions. First, a meta-review and bibliometric analysis on mindfulness research trends identified a large ...number of meta-analyses published in the last 20 years, which tend to show positive effects on average, despite continuing questions on research quality, unclear pathways and uncertainty about the efficacy of individual practice components. Second, we briefly review current conceptualizations of mindfulness as both a practice and a trait (individual difference variable) and how these interpretations may align with the diverse Buddhist philosophical roots. We examine the multidimensionality of mindfulness within and across cultural contexts, which points to conflicts between bottom-up (functionalist) and top-down (culturally relativist meaning-system) interpretations. In order to reconcile these interpretations, we introduce a predictive coding approach which allows integrating bottom-up biological and individual difference dynamics with top-down normative and cultural influences. Finally, we apply these ideas to two examples of how mindfulness components might be present in different cultural practices: (a) stoic philosophy and (b) established concepts from Te Ao Māori. We argue that recontextualizing mindfulness in culturally relevant terms provides opportunities to enrich both mindfulness theory and practice, allowing for an integration of cognitive-functional and cultural relativist positions.
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