What of the Future for Academic Freedom in Higher Education in Aotearoa New Zealand?

As we consider the future of Pacific scholarship in Aotearoa–New Zealand it becomes vital to consider what we wish that future to look like and how to get there. Part of that talanoa involves considering what the possible levers of change are and whether they are capable of fulfilling our desires for change. This article outlines the different national interventions that are being made to increase Pacific engagement in Aotearoa–New Zealand’s universities, and then considers whether these interventions are fulfilling our vision for our communities. In order to deepen conversations in this space, this article also draws on critical university studies literature to help unpack the current situation and to provoke some questioning around our current trajectory.

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Life when renting for older Māori

AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples ◽

10.1177/1177180120903504 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 64-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fiona Cram ◽

Morehu Munro

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Home Ownership ◽

Extended Family ◽

Family Group ◽

Good Relationship ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

The Future

The proportion of older Māori (55+ years) living in rental accommodation is set to rise as home ownership has become less attainable. To anticipate what the future of rental accommodation may hold for older Māori, 42 older Māori (18 men, 24 women) renters in the Hawke’s Bay region of Aotearoa New Zealand were asked about their experiences. Participants had moved to their current home to be closer to whānau (extended family, family group) or out of necessity, and their whānau had often helped them make the decision to move. Many participants who found paying their rent manageable or hard also struggled with other living costs. Most enjoyed a good relationship with their landlord or agent and wanted to stay living where they were. The findings suggest that older Māori renters will require more easing of their living costs, including pathways out of renting and into home ownership.

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Reclaiming the Past, Building a Future: Māori Identity in the Plays of Hone Kouka

Theatre Research International ◽

10.1017/s0307883301000025 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 15-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

William Peterson

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

New Zealand ◽

World War I ◽

The Other ◽

World War ◽

The Past ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

The Future ◽

The 1960S

Hone Kouka's historical plays Nga Tangata Toa and Waiora, created and produced in Aotearoa/New Zealand, one set in the immediate aftermath of World War I, and the other during the great Māori urban migrations of the 1960s, provide fresh insights into the way in which individual Māori responded to the tremendous social disruptions they experienced during the twentieth century. Much like the Māori orator who prefaces his formal interactions with a statement of his whakapapa (genealogy), Kouka reassembles the bones of both his ancestors, and those of other Māori, by demonstrating how the present is constructed by the past, offering a view of contemporary Māori identity that is traditional and modern, rural and urban, respectful of the past and open to the future.

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Reflexivity, Internal Conversation and Societal Influences on Higher Education Students’ Consideration of Values and Priorities during their Citizenship Studies

10.26686/wgtn.17148923.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Linda Rowan

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

New Zealand ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Reference Points ◽

Social Worlds ◽

Framework Analysis ◽

Daily Lives ◽

New Graduates ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Technological Developments

My thesis examines the reflexive processing of knowledge, beliefs, values and personal priorities in the internal and external conversations of students during a period of university study. In higher education, learners encounter the values and views of knowledge prioritised by political, institutional, departmental and academic discourses; beliefs, values and dispositions which may differ from their own. Currently there is little understanding of how university students examine and act on new understandings of knowledge in light of their existing reference points and priorities. I use structure-agency and reflexivity theory as lenses to understand individuals’ agentic responses to the personal, social and structural enablements and constraints encountered in their university studies and daily lives. Using reflexivity methods drawn from Margaret Archer’s work, I investigated students’ responses to citizenship concepts presented in three compulsory courses at one Aotearoa/New Zealand university. My research involved a unique application of framework analysis methods to draw themes from the 31 participants’ stories while retaining the integrity of each narrative. In a new application of Archer’s work, I found that some participants demonstrated controlled reflexivity in containing their reflexive thought processes in response to situational changes such as family trauma or mental health. Controlled reflexivity ensured the actor balanced their concerns against their projects and goals to manage and contain both their internal and external deliberations. This research challenges Archer’s idea that the disruptions of late modernity removed people from their natal contexts, increasing their need for higher levels of reflexivity. While reflexivity shifts when students’ values and concerns are challenged, I found that technological developments have allowed individuals to retain more and deeper connections with their natal context than in Archer’s work. Furthermore, I argue that Archer’s claim of a reflexive progression in dominant modes due to increased education is too simplistic and fails to acknowledge that students’ reflexive practices are highly contextual (such as living in a bicultural country like Aotearoa/New Zealand) and strongly influenced by personal circumstances. Internal conversations for my research participants were complemented with external conversations to build reflexivity. Single, dual or multi modes of reflexivity were revealed in study-work life as students’ personal priorities shifted. The specificity of reflexive processing means reflexivity typologies need to be robust to be applied across cultures and contexts. This work is a reminder to policy developers, universities, teachers and employers that the “invisible” personal characteristics and attributes that society seeks to see in new graduates are neither easy to assess nor to confirm using typologies. Academics need to remain open to understanding the multiple intersections of the study world with individuals’ wider social worlds and circumstances.

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Faithfulness and fidelity across identities and contexts for SOTL in the global South

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South ◽

10.36615/sotls.v5i2.245 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

KC Lee ◽

Zach Simpson

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

South Africa ◽

Social Work ◽

New Zealand ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Global South ◽

The Other ◽

Scholarship Of Teaching ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand

Issue 5.2 of SOTL in the South features four peer-reviewed articles, one reflective piece and one book review. The peer-reviewed articles include two articles about broader concerns related to the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, namely the discursive and negotiated work of producing SoTL work and the importance of considering diverse worldviews regarding research ethics. In addition, there are two detailed accounts of instances of SoTL, one from Lesotho, addressing the challenges facing students from rural contexts, and the other from South Africa, investigating the implementation of collaborative learning in a fourth-year social work classroom. The issue concludes with a reflection on an action-oriented workshop held in Aotearoa New Zealand aimed at increasing the number of Māori and Pasifika academics, and a review of The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South.

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The Task of the Translator

10.26686/wgtn.16640473 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Karl Hoffmann

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Internal Conflict ◽

Natural State ◽

Translation Theory ◽

New York University ◽

Mining Operations ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

The Future ◽

Post Industrial ◽

Over Time

Humanity’s relentless lust for precious resources hidden within the surface of the Earth has resulted in countless scars and derelict landscapes. In the modern age, many sites are remediated, yet some have become so damaged during the lifespan of industry that they cannot return back to their original state. Aotearoa/New Zealand is seen globally as a pristine nation. As one of the last major land masses to be discovered by humans, it escaped much of the exploitation that the rest of the world experienced prior to the Industrial Revolution. Māori lived as one with the land, but the arrival of the European saw the initiation of mass exploitation of this sacred land and its resources. Many post-industrial sites within Aotearoa/New Zealand have slowly returned back to their natural state due to abandonment. Yet as technology progresses and our ability to terraform advances, many of these scars have become too deep to ever fully heal. These scars are the focus of this thesis, intervening with architecture as the catalyst for change by allowing future generations to observe and learn from their ancestors’ mistakes. The township of Waihi, at the base of the Coromandel Peninsula, has a mining history spanning three centuries. Here, the land has been inexorably violated in the search for gold and silver. Waihi is thus the site for this design-led research investigation. Mining operations here will continue till 2035, where the landscape will then begin a stage of rehabilitation. This investigation proposes that by integrating architecture into these rehabilitation efforts, an ‘afterlife’ can emerge for the scars and memories of the area, allowing stories of the changing landscape to be remembered long into the future. Geographic layers of history build up over time, from prehistoric through precolonial to post-industrial. Each layer is a transformation from the previous, creating chronotopes of time and space. In his essay “The Task of the Translator”, Walter Benjamin maintains that translation is an active and aggressive process that challenges the purity and unity of the original. In doing so, the translator takes advantage of the internal conflict of languages and their state of flux in order to recreate them. The task of the architect in post-colonial contexts can often be compared with the task of the translator—carrying out a critical mediation between a vast diversity of cultural elements, often antagonistic, in an attempt to produce adequate spaces to satisfy the needs of specific societies and cultural groups. Employing translation theory in the realm of architecture opens a dialogue in the translation existing as an ‘afterlife’ emerging from the original. When applied to architectural theory this investigation may begin to interpret a unique and meaningful intervention for the ‘afterlife’ of post-industrial landscapes affected by mining in Waihi. An important coalescence of the historic mining industry and local Māori oral histories will inform the narrative of the sites, engaging in a dialectic and responding to alternative narratives of the heritage that shaped the site context. Using Benjamin’s essay as a framework to begin this thesis, the investigation asks the question: How can the histories of a scarred landscape be translated through an architectural narrative to inform and restore memory for the present and future? This research investigation proposes that architecture can activate voids left by industry in narrative ways that can enhance a visitor’s understanding of the place and its turbulent past. Jerome Bruner, senior research fellow at New York University, outlines a foundation by which to develop a successful narrative. Jacques Derrida, French philosopher and a major figure associated with the development of deconstruction, connects translation theory with the realm ofarchitecture and unveils further possibilities. Juhani Pallasmaa, architect and former professor at the Helsinki University of Technology, focuses heavily on how memory creates ‘place’ and how this can inform an imagined future in relation to the built environment. Leading heritage architect Jennifer Hill describes how preserving visible scars in a landscape can provide an affordance for a site’s ongoing translation over time, contributing to the overall narrative of ‘place’. Robin Evans, architect and architectural historian explores the architectural drawing through translation, and Catherine Hamel, associate professor at the University of Calgary, focuses on the use of drawing as confrontation and how this allows a visual dialectic to form between varying methods of representation. This thesis proposes to integrate theoretical arguments from each of these theorists in a design-led research investigation designed to rehabilitate a historically scarred settlement. In the thesis, a communication between narrative and translation will be established in order to revitalise the place’s identity. It will also fill the social and economic voids left by the industrial processes and find a benevolent approach to guide Waihi into the future.

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Whāia te mātauranga - How are research libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand applying Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / the Māori Subject Headings and offering them to users?

10.26686/wgtn.17012207 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Melissa Bryant

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Information Sharing ◽

Future Development ◽

Research Libraries ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Library Users ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Subject Headings ◽

Further Development

Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku/the Māori Subject Headings (MSH) were released in 2006, with the aim of “provid[ing] a structured path to subjects that Māori customers can…use to find material in libraries…using terms familiar to Māori and arranged in a hierarchy that reflects the Māori view of the world”. The project is a world leader and internationally well-regarded, but very little literature has been published evaluating the uptake and use of the MSH. I talked with staff in wānanga, university, public, and special libraries, to explore how research libraries are applying the MSH and offering the MSH to their users, when adding metadata, providing reference and research services, or supporting library users to search independently. Libraries employed diverse approaches tailored to their specific users, but participants consistently emphasised the importance of the MSH, advocated for further development of the thesaurus, and hoped for more training and information sharing between libraries. Results are discussed in terms of four questions - What is working well? What could work better? What are the benefits of this work? What further questions do we need to answer? Suggestions for further research include broader assessment of the actual and potential uptake of the MSH in libraries and other memory institutions, discussion with library users, and consideration of the future development of the MSH.

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Whāia te mātauranga - How are research libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand applying Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / the Māori Subject Headings and offering them to users?

10.26686/wgtn.17012207.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Melissa Bryant

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Information Sharing ◽

Future Development ◽

Research Libraries ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Library Users ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Subject Headings ◽

Further Development

Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku/the Māori Subject Headings (MSH) were released in 2006, with the aim of “provid[ing] a structured path to subjects that Māori customers can…use to find material in libraries…using terms familiar to Māori and arranged in a hierarchy that reflects the Māori view of the world”. The project is a world leader and internationally well-regarded, but very little literature has been published evaluating the uptake and use of the MSH. I talked with staff in wānanga, university, public, and special libraries, to explore how research libraries are applying the MSH and offering the MSH to their users, when adding metadata, providing reference and research services, or supporting library users to search independently. Libraries employed diverse approaches tailored to their specific users, but participants consistently emphasised the importance of the MSH, advocated for further development of the thesaurus, and hoped for more training and information sharing between libraries. Results are discussed in terms of four questions - What is working well? What could work better? What are the benefits of this work? What further questions do we need to answer? Suggestions for further research include broader assessment of the actual and potential uptake of the MSH in libraries and other memory institutions, discussion with library users, and consideration of the future development of the MSH.

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Elder abuse and neglect: Past endeavours as a springboard for the future

Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work ◽

10.11157/anzswj-vol20iss3id341 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 44-51

Author(s):

Glynnis Brook

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Elder Abuse ◽

Elder Abuse And Neglect ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Abuse And Neglect ◽

The Future

This paper traces the emergence of, and responses to, the phenomenon known as elder abuse and neglect in Aotearoa New Zealand and considers where to from here.

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