Beliefs
What did Leeana believe about professional interactions within kaupapa Māori?
“Kaupapa Māori is fundamental to my way of being in the world, to my ways of knowing. It just is! As a result, I believe that it’s critical that I care for others and their mana in all my interactions. How I behave in my interactions reflects my values and how I care for people.
But I have also learned so much from my professional experiences, including those with Pākehā colleagues. And I find myself constantly wrestling with the challenge of bridging the two worlds of kaupapa Māori and working as a professional educator – what a colleague describes as a ‘dance in the mind’”.
Perpectives
What do you believe about professional interactions within kaupapa Māori?
What does the term “kaupapa Māori” imply for you in your interactions with others?
Here’s what the case participants think:
How do you balance kaupapa Māori with the need for open professional interactions with others in your capacity as an educator?
Here’s what the case participants think:
What beliefs do you base your above answers on?
How were your beliefs evident in the practice situation you outlined earlier?
Engaging with the literature
Kaupapa Māori (Web link)
Interactive professionalism (page 120)
Te Kōtahitanga Phase 3: Establishing a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy of Relations in Mainstream Secondary School Classrooms by Bishop et al. (2007) (Web link)
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