The 6th Biennial Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga conference will highlight indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for indigenous development. Presentations and papers will address aspects of the following themes…continue reading
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Update: Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga funding
Māori researchers keep pressure on funding stalemate Māori researchers are calling on Government Ministers to come up with ways of tackling the issue of Māori research funding. They believe the…continue reading
Thought Space Wānanga
‘Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke’ is a research project that investigates the collective values that nourish and enhances the well-being of tamariki Māori as taonga within our whānau, hapū and iwi.…continue reading
The Fundamental Laws: Codification for decolonization?
Indigenous knowledge has sustained Indigenous peoples for centuries. Despite the traumatizing and coercive impacts of European, and later American colonization, Indigenous peoples have been able to maintain many aspects of…continue reading
Aboriginal Women’s Voices: Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness and Incarceration
This paper explores the cycling between incarceration and homelessness among 18 women in Calgary, Alberta and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan employing community based research and arts-based research. Women who participated in…continue reading
Nonprofit Technology Conference data related report
Stephen Blyth, Community Research’s communications and fundraising manger, reports on the Nonprofit Technology Conference, he attended in Washington DC, 13-15 March 2014. Whether data is recorded and analysed for fundraising,…continue reading
Reprint: The Denial of Maori Research Development
Dr Leonie Pihama wrote this analysis of the decision to discontinue funding of Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga on Te Wharepora Hou website, on 6 March 2014. It is reprinted…continue reading
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga – A way forward
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is a centre for research excellence within Aotearoa New Zealand. Since its establishment in 2003 Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has provided over 650 grants…continue reading
Big heart, but disconnected – new CED report
A new research report on community economic development and social enterprise found “the sector has a and fragmented, from itself, and other stakeholders”. While there are many fine examples of…continue reading
Kanohi ki te kanohi – A Thing of the Past? Examining the Notion of “Virtual” Ahikā and the Implicat ions for Kanohi ki te kanohi
The Māori concept of ahikā (burning fires of occupation) was once a necessary part of asserting one’s mana whenua (rights to land) over customary territories. If ahikā was exercised over…continue reading
What messages are in the tuakana –teina pedagogy for tertiary educators?
With vocation level programmes of the tertiary sector in Aotearoa New Zealand entering a new era of strategic visioning, one of the aims for educators is to seek ways to…continue reading
Article: Māori Family Views of Family Wellbeing
From The International Indigenous Policy Journal: Vol 5, Issue 1. 2014 Amohia F. Boulton: Whakauae Research for Maori Health and Development, amohia@whakauae.co.nz Heather H. Gifford: Whakauae Research for Māori Health…continue reading