Kaikōrero Matua
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Helen Varney
Keynote: Strengthening Leadership Capabilities - through Pacific lens’ (Tangata Moana) to improve outcomes for Pacific Learners
Abstract: Through narratives I will unpack four key Pacific values and the impact of these on our Pacific learners - the goal, to deepen your understanding of the Pacific lens to strengthen your leadership capabilities to improve outcomes for Pacific learners.
My presentation centres on 4 key elements
1. The Pacific Lens - what is it and why is it important to develop?
2. Tangata Whenua - Tangata Moana - our connection and our journey for our future
3. Using the Wayfinder Frame as Educational Leaders to Strengthen Leadership capabilities to improve outcomes for Pacific learners
4. Valuing our ways - Tautua, Vā Fealoa'i, Atamai, Mana Reo- Mana Tikanga
Te Kawehau Hoskins
Ngāti Hau, Nga Puhi
Keynote: Rangatiratanga as Indigenising Practice for our Educational Institutions
Abstract: Tino Rangatiratanga speaks to Māori understandings and forms of authority and agency that function for the wellbeing of the collective. Rangatiratanga is multiform, contextual, responsive and relational. It doesn’t look one way or operate at one level. Rangatiratanga is not a thing, a fixed state or point of arrival. Rangatiratanga is a practice, a process, a way of being and thinking. As part of our indigenising efforts across numerous educational and institutional settings, expressions of rangatiratanga are already clearly at work. These are the pockets of Māori agency and innovation. These expressions are evidence of Māori logics and powers at work; of the mobilisation of mātauranga for the collective good. Leading every day, with these indigenous powers, is to indigenise our schools and our universities, for the benefit of all.
Keynote: The power of kōrero tuku iho for transforming learning: Whakapapa narratives, the Mana Model and Māori understandings of giftedness.
Abstract: Whakapapa narratives are powerful because they enable teachers and learners to understand the profound value of kōrero tuku iho for better understanding who they are and how they relate to others in the spaces they live and learn. In this presentation I challenge existing concepts of giftedness and use kōrero tuku iho to reframe what giftedness means. Using the Mana Model as a framework, I propose ways we might revise what giftedness is, how giftedness manifests, and what taitamariki need to realise their own giftedness.
Te Ringakaha Tia-Ward
Ngati Toki, Nga Puhi
Keynote: Kia Ora Te Huarahi Ako
Abstract: Te Whare Tapu o Te Ngākau Māori is a framework created by a dedicated rōpū of Pou Toki (Architects) Within the framework we speak of Te Huarahi Ako or the Learning Pathway. I will present and contextualize the Huarahi Ako as a living journey which embraces the balance of Mana, Tapu, Mauri, Whatukura, and Mareikura. Follow me on a journey to better understand the essence of enacting your uniqueness in honour of who you were, are, and will be. Begin the journey from the first stages of existence to the achievement and conclusion of your Huarahi Ako. Piki mai, kake mai, ki Te Huarahi Ako.
Professor Melinda Webber
Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Kahu, and Ngāti Whakaue