Indigenising the academy: A case for intercultural institutional mediating structures for Aotearoa/New Zealand
Māori and Pasifika Higher Education Horizons
ISBN: 978-1-78350-703-0, eISBN: 978-1-78350-704-7
Publication date: 4 April 2014
Abstract
Negotiating the ‘middle-ground’ (Lear, 2006) between New Zealand universities and Maori whare wananga is the issue discussed in this chapter. It is suggested that the Maori institution of the marae, used as a ‘mediating structure’ (Berger, 1979) is ideally placed as the negotiating space to enhance the learning and scholarship of all students who seek a sense of belonging as well as the opportunity to increase their potential as global citizens. It is argued that choosing to make a contribution to the betterment of all New Zealanders is the prior intellectual and cultural engagement.
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Acknowledgement
This chapter is a substantive rewrite of a conference presentation to the Asia-Pacific Symposium and Workshop on Higher Education of Indigenous Peoples and Minorities at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 28 February to 2 March, 2008. The original chapter was published in Conference Proceedings edited by Chen Bateer and Peter Englert (2009) produced entirely in Chinese.
Citation
Penetito, W. (2014), "Indigenising the academy: A case for intercultural institutional mediating structures for Aotearoa/New Zealand", Māori and Pasifika Higher Education Horizons (Diversity in Higher Education, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-364420140000015009
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