Māori Education (2024)

Māori Education graduates will have knowledge of policy, pedagogy and practices in Māori and English medium education settings appropriate to Māori learners and communities.

Māori Education is available as a minor.

To complete a minor in Māori Education, students must complete 60 points in Māori Education, including at least 30 points above 100 level. Students must complete MAOED100, MAOED200; either EDUCA200 or EDSOC300; and a further 15 points from MAORI202 or MAORI302 or approved papers listed under Māori Education.


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  • 100 Level

    Code Paper Title Points Occurrence / Location
    MAOED100Huarahi Matauranga Māori: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Māori Education15.024A (Hamilton) & 24A (Online)
    This paper examines historical and contemporary approaches in Maori education provision in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores policies, practices and developments that have impacted on the educational development of Maori.
  • 200 Level

    Code Paper Title Points Occurrence / Location
    EDUCA200Te Hononga Tangata15.024B (Online)
    This paper prepares students to recognise and understand local and global cultural diversity, and to work competently and confidently in culturally appropriate ways with diverse others in educational contexts.
    MAOED200Hopu Reo Rua: Bilingual Theory and Practice in Māori Education15.024A (Online)
    This paper explores bilingual acquisition theory and practice and effective Indigenous language and content instruction, with a focus on bilingual and immersion settings.
    MAORI202Ngā Iho Matua: Māori Philosophy15.024A (Hamilton)
    This paper examines the philosophical underpinnings of seminal tikanga Maori concepts, and their influence both historically and in contemporary Maori culture.
  • 300 Level

    Code Paper Title Points Occurrence / Location
    EDSOC300Māori Knowledge and Western Impacts in Education15.024A (Hamilton)
    This paper explores comparisons between key Western and Maori philosophies. It considers how Maori and Western philosophies respectively describe the self's relationship with thought and knowledge in the context of education.

2024 Catalogue of Papers information current as of : 29 November 2023 7:52pm

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