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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Treaty of Waitangi"”.
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Processes of Pakeha change in response to the Treaty of Waitangi
The sense of crisis that marks our times may be seen as a crisis for dominant groups whose once-secure hegemony is being challenged by marginalised others. It is in theorising the reply from the dominant group to the voices of the oppressed that existing Western conceptions of social change fall …
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The Treaty of Waitangi and Asian Immigrants in Aotearoa: A Reflective Journey
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 between the British Crown and Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand being represented at the signing by chiefs from various tribes. The Treaty promised to ensure legitimate control on European settlers, while guaranteeing Māori their sovereignty, …
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The Treaty of Waitangi: a study of its making, interpretation and role in New Zealand history
From 1840 to the present, the Treaty of Waitangi has been a subject of some significance in New Zealand – a distinctive but subtle thread running through the fabric of the country’s history and shaping attitudes to race relations. A conviction strongly held by New Zealanders is that the treaty has …
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A Relationships Framework for Organisational Responsiveness to Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi in the Work of Groups and Organisations in the Community and the Public Sector of Aotearoa New Zealand
… focussed on the development and implementation of a Relationships Framework based on Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi. The Framework has been designed to enable working together between Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti in the community and Public Sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its development is …
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Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
The challenges of achieving the potential, which the Treaty of Waitangi offers for a postcolonial present and future, have shaped life in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last four decades. This thesis draws on this history and challenge to consider the practice possibilities for Pākehā counsellors …
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Different Coloured Tears: Bicultural Bereavement Perspectives
… moving on through life, in response to the death of a signficant loved one. Of specific interest were sites of conflict, processes of negotiation and pathways to resolution occuring across cultural worlds whilst deciding on, organising and enacting tangi/funeral rituals for the deceased. These …
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The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law
In 1840 the indigenous Maori tribes of New Zealand ceded the sovereignty of New Zealand to the British Crown in return for the protection of the chiefs' rangatiratanga (internal government of the tribe) and the tribes' lands, forests, and fisheries. This agreement is known as the Treaty of …
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Manaaki whenua. Manaaki tangata: Care for the land, care for the people: Leading critical school reform with mana whenua and whānau Māori
… Pākehā students and compromised the ability of Māori students to engage with learning and succeed. Despite the promises of equality inherent in the Treaty of Waitangi, this historical foundation has, for over 150 years, perpetuated intergenerational cycles of education failure for Māori …
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When one door closes, look for a window: An indigenous autoethnography within the public service of Aotearoa, New Zealand
This thesis charts the history of a Māori woman and her roles in public sector leadership. It is written chronologically and weaves kaupapa Māori methods with autoethnography to enable and empower others to understand the experiences of various organisations/agencies that the author has worked for, …
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Faith, politics and reconciliation: the Roman Catholic Church, New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australians
… ideals in accordance with its understanding of God’s constant truth. These ideals include the belief that human creation in the image and likeness of God establishes rights to dignity, to culture, to religious freedom, to self-determination and a share in the common good. These ideals form …
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Kaitiakitanga o te Taiao - Reconciling Legislative Provisions and Outcomes for Māori
… It was ground-breaking also for its recognition of First Nations’ rights and values. This includes directing decision-makers to recognise and provide for the relationship of Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, waters and treasured resources, to have particular …
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A Case for an Indigenous Court - a realisation of self-determination?
… appropriate ways to alter entrenched patterns of highly negative outcomes for Māori in the criminal justice system. The statistics demonstrate that proportionately, Māori are much more likely to be apprehended, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated than other New Zealanders and …
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To Settle the Settler: Pathologies of Colonialism in New Zealand History Films 1925 - 2005
… attempts to understand the psychological effects of (de)colonisation, psychology has provided a lens through which to investigate the (post)colonial condition. For the most part, these psychocolonial investigations have focused on either the colonised or the coloniser, or on the relation between …
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Tīhei Mauri Ora: Negotiating primary school teachers' personal and professional identities as Māori
… to impact particularly on the personal and professional identities and experiences of Māori teachers in contemporary English-medium schools. Just as, historically, Māori students were expected to leave their language and culture at the 19th century colonial school gates, so too are many …
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At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900
… settlers have largely disappeared from histories of the colonisation of New Zealand, at least in frontier settings. This has been the result of an unwillingness on the part of Pakeha academics to study people who were recast as colonisers following the rise of postcolonial discourses from the …
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Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health
Institutional racism, a pattern of differential access to material resources and power determined by race, advantages one sector of the population while disadvantaging another. Such racism is not only about conspicuous acts of violence but can be carried in the hold of mono-cultural perspectives. …
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Pictogram use during chest pain nurse specialist consultations in regional New Zealand: Patient experiences and clinical outcomes
Heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in New Zealand. Ischemic heart disease is the single biggest killer of New Zealanders’ and the highest-ranked cause of premature death. The Heart Foundation reminds us “every 90 minutes a New Zealander dies from heart disease.” Maori …
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Social marketing in Aotearoa New Zealand: Analysing its evolution to inform, improve, and justify its future
Plotting the evolution and experience of social marketing in Aotearoa New Zealand, this thesis charts a creative landscape of productive future research directions in the field. Starting with the question, “What can the social marketing discipline learn from the unique experience of social …
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Chief Justice James Prendergast and the administration of New Zealand colonial justice, 1862-1899
… during the nineteenth-century was in a state of rapid change and constant turmoil. After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the British Crown in 1840, British immigration to New Zealand began in earnest. As a British colony, New Zealand gradually acquired the British legal …
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“It’s becoming part of their knowing”: a study of bicultural development in an early childhood teacher education setting in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This study is an exploration of the implementation of bicultural development within a university-based early childhood teacher education programme in Aotearoa/New Zealand, which can be considered to be a bicultural country (Walker, 1987, p. 221). Bicultural development is a process in line with …
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