title: What does it take to make us listen? The experiences of those leading whole school reform to improve outcomes for indigenous minority students

authors: Buckley, Louise Jane

subjects: Education

abstract: This thesis examines how the Kia Eke Panuku: Building on Success school reform initiative shaped the experiences of groups of educators within mainstream New Zealand secondary schools. These experiences are analysed against a setting of colonisation and historic educational policies of assimilation and integration that have created a situation of education debt. The lack of power for Māori in education is evident. This study highlights the role of the Strategic Change Leadership Team in deconstructing power hierarchies within schools so that educational outcomes can be improved for Māori students. It presents the Strategic Change Leadership Team as the vehicle for conscientisation, resistance and transformative praxis within schools. It shows that in schools where power hierarchies were deconstructed, Māori students were able to enjoy educational success as Māori.

text: What does it take to make us listen? The experiences of those leading whole school reform to improve outcomes for indigenous minority students This thesis examines how the Kia Eke Panuku: Building on Success school reform initiative shaped the experiences of groups of educators within mainstream New Zealand secondary schools. These experiences are analysed against a setting of colonisation and historic educational policies of assimilation and integration that have created a situation of education debt. The lack of power for Māori in education is evident. This study highlights the role of the Strategic Change Leadership Team in deconstructing power hierarchies within schools so that educational outcomes can be improved for Māori students. It presents the Strategic Change Leadership Team as the vehicle for conscientisation, resistance and transformative praxis within schools. It shows that in schools where power hierarchies were deconstructed, Māori students were able to enjoy educational success as Māori.

year: 2020

title: Intra-propositional relations and their signalling: An investigation of authentic Māori texts

authors: Whaanga, Hēmi

subjects: Language & education

abstract: I report here on one part of a research project that involved the investigation of a range of authentic Māori texts in terms of two types of meaning relation – those that operate within propositions (‘intra-propositional relations’) and those that link propositions or groups of propositions (‘inter-propositional relations’). The focus here is on intra-propositional relations (relationships within propositions). On the basis of the comparison of a number of intra-propositional relational models, a new model which draws inspiration from the work of Crombie is proposed and applied to a corpus of texts written in Māori, the emphasis being on the ways in which these relations are signalled in Māori.

text: Intra-propositional relations and their signalling: An investigation of authentic Māori texts I report here on one part of a research project that involved the investigation of a range of authentic Māori texts in terms of two types of meaning relation – those that operate within propositions (‘intra-propositional relations’) and those that link propositions or groups of propositions (‘inter-propositional relations’). The focus here is on intra-propositional relations (relationships within propositions). On the basis of the comparison of a number of intra-propositional relational models, a new model which draws inspiration from the work of Crombie is proposed and applied to a corpus of texts written in Māori, the emphasis being on the ways in which these relations are signalled in Māori.

year: 2010

title: Lake Rotoiti catfish incursion: Something new or the Emergence of an old problem?

authors: Hicks, Brendan J.

abstract: Kia ora everybody. I have been involved in pest fish research, control and generally understanding their life history and what we might do about them. For a number of years I have been called in by Bay of Plenty Regional Council to help with the catfish problem and I ask, ‘Is this something new or the emergence of an old problem?’ I suggest that maybe we have been waiting for this in Rotoiti but hoping that it would not happen.

text: Lake Rotoiti catfish incursion: Something new or the Emergence of an old problem? Kia ora everybody. I have been involved in pest fish research, control and generally understanding their life history and what we might do about them. For a number of years I have been called in by Bay of Plenty Regional Council to help with the catfish problem and I ask, ‘Is this something new or the emergence of an old problem?’ I suggest that maybe we have been waiting for this in Rotoiti but hoping that it would not happen.

year: 2017