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This project examined Māori resilience, with particular reference to Māori systems of assessment and management of issues pertaining to mental health and wellbeing. In New Zealand, the researchers proposed, we have two different epistemologies and two different systems of knowledge, which rarely intersect and this is the case in the field of mental health, where western epistemologies dominate, while Māori epistemologies are largely under utilised. The aim was to document Māori attitudes towards mental health services, treatments and pathways to mental health care; develop and trial a pilot interactive awareness programme in mental health for Māori communities; and develop and trial a pilot interactive awareness programme in Māori mental health for western health professionals.
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Jenni Tupu (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Hine, Sāmoa), University of OtagoThis research considers the identity journeys of Māori who were adopted during the closed adoption period 1955-1985 in Aotearoa. This work considers their quests in seeking identity as Māori, having been raised by non-Māori. Included are the stories of tamariki and mokopuna, where the…
View projectBEING ADOPTED: The Lifelong search for Self
Kahurangi, Tipene (Waikato Tainui), University of Otago I raro i ngaa parirau o te whakatakanga Marsden o Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai, he aronga taaku ki te titiro atu ki ngaa takahanga, ki ngaa wheako whaiaro o ngaa whaanau e mau nei ana i te taonga CDH1 gene mutation i mua i te aroaro o taatou te tangata, oo ngaa kaiwhakahaere hauora. Tee mahi o…
View projectMe titiro whakamuri, kia anga whakamua
Kahurangi, Tipene (Waikato Tainui), University of Otago
I raro i ngaa parirau o te whakatakanga Marsden o Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai, he aronga taaku ki te titiro atu ki ngaa takahanga, ki ngaa wheako whaiaro o ngaa whaanau e mau nei ana i te taonga CDH1 gene mutation i mua i te aroaro o taatou te tangata, oo ngaa kaiwhakahaere hauora. Tee mahi o te tangata e kapo kau ana i ngaa wheako o ngaa taangata, o ngaa whaanau, noo reira, ko taaku, he kohi i ngaa wheako aa-rata, aa-hauora nei kia aahei te hunga kaiwhakahaere hauora te tiaki pai nei i ngaa taangata o ngaa ira rerekeetanga.
Michael Taiapa (Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi), Waikato University Since the 1950s, the advancements in second language acquisition and grammar theories in English language studies has had a profound impact on its own description that has made it less syntactically-driven and more communicatively-oriented. This has the potential to influence language description…
View projectBeyond structuralism: Exploring semantic-based approaches to describing the Māori language in grammar books and textbooks for pedagogical purposes
Michael Taiapa (Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi), Waikato University
Since the 1950s, the advancements in second language acquisition and grammar theories in English language studies has had a profound impact on its own description that has made it less syntactically-driven and more communicatively-oriented. This has the potential to influence language description moving it from a purely structurally-focused orientation to a more semantically-focused one that is more suited to the pedagogic context.
Nevertheless, in the case of the Māori language, its description continues to be dominated by structural linguistics that was prevalent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, making no concessions to the possibility of a semantic analysis and this, in turn, is reflected in grammar books and textbooks on te reo.