Mātauranga Māori is enhanced and nurtured
Mātauranga Māori, including our language, our culture, and our
heritage, forms the foundation, the framework and the substance
of who we are as Māori, and guides us in our interactions with
each other and with our environments. Mātauranga Māori offers a
lens through which we view our world as we work to understand
traditional, contemporary and emerging Māori knowledge bases
and their inter-relationships
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. Mātauranga Māori provides the
foundation for Māori to succeed as Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand
and as global citizens in the Twenty-first Century.
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Outcome
As a Māori organisation, we separate rangahau from
definitions of research used in the narrow confines
of Western empiricism. We are dedicated to the
propagation and protection of rangahau Māori, and we
support rangahau that informs our practice and builds
our rangahau culture, capacity and competence. We
also support rangahau that promotes te ao Māori and
emancipates our people.
Alignment with Te Rautakinga
The Mātauranga Māori outcome aligns with two of our
2030 strategic attributes:
• Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is steeped in te reo,
tikanga and āhuatanga Māori with a worldwide
reputation for creative and innovative approaches
to indigenous learning and understanding
• we are a leading edge Māori and indigenous
research organisation and a recognised repository
of mātauranga Māori.
Initiatives and projects
As a Māori organisation, we celebrate mātauranga
Māori throughout our organisation on a daily basis
through our activities, events and ways of being – it
engenders who we are. We also nurture and enhance
this knowledge through a range of initiatives and
projects designed to promote te ao Māori within Te
Wānanga o Aotearoa and externally. A few of the more
high profile projects we engaged in during 2012 were:
• clarifying and strengthening the mātauranga
Māori qualification pathway to promote
engagement and encourage progression through
National Qualifications Framework levels in
this field
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trengthening the mātauranga Māori paradigm
across Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and building
rangahau capability throughout the organisation
• establishing and nurturing relationships with
indigenous communities throughout the world,
including hosting representatives from the Royal
House of the Kingdom of Tonga, American First
Nations communities, the Alaskan Native Policy
Centre and Ka Honua Momona from Hawai’i.
Output measures
Our core mātauranga Māori outputs protect, nurture
and enhance this knowledge. Outputs that contribute
to achievement of these outcomes include:
• delivering high-quality, relevant mātauranga
Māori qualifications
• ensuring mātauranga Māori is embedded in
qualifications, as well as our organisational
approach
• promoting rangahau as a significant contributor to
the store of mātauranga Māori.
During 2012, we achieved all targets attached to
our mātauranga Māori output measures. Of note, our
rangahau outputs increased substantially during the
year. The variance between actual and target rangahau
outputs resulted largely from WIPCE 2011 conference
papers being published in 2012. The 2013 target
remains realistic and achievable for us.
1 Edwards, S. (2009). Titiro Whakamuri kia marama ai te wao nei: Whakapapa epistemologies and Maniapoto
Māori cultural identities
Te pŪrongo 2012
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