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  • Whakapakari Reo Māori

    Project purpose: To carry out a literature search and review on the topic of language revitalisation – with a focus on Māori language (particularly the Rongomaiwahine/Ngāti Kahungunu dialects where possible).

    Te Reo

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  • Whakapapa: Whānau Narratives

    Internship project
    Pae Ahurei
    Pātai Te Ao Māori

    Project Supervisors: Morgan Tupaea and Dr. Rāwiri Tinirau

    Institution: Te Atawhai o Te Ao: Independent Māori Research Institute for Environment and Health

    Project Summary: The Whakapapa Research Project aims to gather whānau narratives from eight whānau case studies. As this project unfolds, whānau responses to challenges they have experienced will be documented, and a whānau research methodology will be developed. Through this project, an innovative space of whānau narratives and whakapapa connections will be created, and provide insight into the organisation, perseverance, and preservation of whānau and whakapapa over time.

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  • Whakarauora: Whanganui pātaka construction

    Internship project
    Pae Ahurei
    Pātai Te Ao Māori

    Project Summary: The Whakarauora Research Project aims to re-integrate traditional fishing methods used by Whanganui tūpuna into the development of an education curriculum and through facilitating wānanga.

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  • Documentaries

    Whakatipu Rawa Mā Ngā Uri Whakatipu

    The challenge for Māori carrying out development is to determine how to balance the drivers of a neo-liberal economic approach with the very ideals and principles that define us as Māori to ensure quality social and environmental outcomes for future generations.

  • 2014 Seminars

    Whakatipu Rawa mā ngā Uri Whakatipu: Māori Economic Development

    Some economists argue for diversity in the way collective resources are managed rather than one having an unquestioning faith in leaving things to the market. Our team supports this thinking and look at how ethics and Māori knowledge can be used equally alongside economics in managing collective Māori assets.

  • 2011 Seminars

    Whānau Ora: Visualising a New Future

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    Addictions are now epidemic in New Zealand society and the lifestyles of Māori modelled on non-Māori is now creating considerable health issues in whānau. Results of an exploratory study on the impact of gambling on Māori will be presented in relation to the need for Whānau Ora to be a bipartisan policy and programme for at least a decade or more to address intergenerational trauma.