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Leeana
Many younger ISTEs, in our conversations with each other, we grapple with telling more senior – or kuia, pakeke – how to improve aspects of their practice, and being seen as maybe a little bit arrogant, and all whakahihi. It appears to be a bit of a dilemma for younger ISTEs that there might be two distinct worlds – there might be ways of operating – whereas when I listen to the kuia, they just see it in such a more blended way. But for me, sometimes, the skills that are required to be successful in some forum are to be articulate, to be outspoken, and in other forums it may be more … to be more delivered and deliberate in the way in which you talk. So that’s one of the tensions. Another tension is many of us have not grown up with te reo Māori as a first language. So as a second language learner, many of us think we will never be near native or near fluent speakers of te reo, and that is a tension. So maybe there might be some ways of thinking and aspects that we cannot access because we may not have the level of language to be able to do so.
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