W膩nanga as a M膩ori AV名湿 Methodology
W膩nanga is becoming an increasingly common practice utilized by M膩ori researchers today, with deep roots in M膩ori and iwi tikanga, culture, and rituals of learning and knowledge transmission. There is a small body of writing on w膩nanga focused on both traditional Whare W膩nanga and the more recent establishment of equivalent modern day M膩ori tertiary institutions. While this scant literature generally explores w膩nanga as indigenous schools of learning, there is even less available work on w膩nanga as a research method. Nevertheless, M膩ori have been using w膩nanga explicitly as a part of their research for some time, but this writing is scattered usually in the methodology sections of various theses and other studies. This paper provides a discussion of the increasingly popular use of w膩nanga as a methodological practice noting some of this existing work. It offers a brief overview of the definitions and traditional roots of w膩nanga, and then draws on two specific iwi case studies to explore how w膩nanga works methodologically. This presentation is based on a written paper that we are about to have published.
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Dr Rangim膩rie Mahuika is a of Ng膩ti Rangiwewehi, Ng膩ti Whakaue and Te Rarawa descent. She has an interdisciplinary background, having trained as both a Lawyer and an elementary school teacher in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Rangimarie has completed a Masters in Education and taught Kaupapa M膩ori AV名湿 Theory and Methods at Te Kura Toi, Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato. She has also completed a Doctorate, focusing on indigenous governance within the tribal nation of Ng膩ti Rangiwewehi at Te Piringa Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato. Rangim膩rie has been fortunate to be involved in a wide range of research projects within her own tribal community and is passionate about the potential Indigenous ways of knowing, being and governing hold for transforming and healing our world.听
Dr N膿pia Mahuika is of Ng膩ti Porou descent. He is chair of the M膩ori historians鈥 collective of Aotearoa, and . He is a Fulbright scholar and President of the National Oral History Association of New Zealand. His most recent book, Rethinking Oral History and Tradition (OUP) challenges the Western dominated field of oral history, and he has just been awarded the inaugural Judith Binney Fellowship 2019 to write A History of Makutu (鈥渨颈迟肠丑肠谤补蹿迟鈥) in Aotearoa.
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Friday, December 6th in Hellems 199 from 3:00-4:30PM *听please visit our facebook page for a live recording of the presentation.听