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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"pūrākau"”.
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He Vā: Possibilities in Moana Relationships: Pūrākau with five Pacific educators
… methods of talanoa (Samoa/Tonga/Fiji) and pūrākau (Māori) to bring to life day-to-day practices that exemplify care and nurture (the cultural-ethical) and negotiation (the political) potentials of the vā. Five philosophical lenses assist in the writing of the pūrākau and the reading of the …
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Blood Quantum “A Pūrākau approach to understanding the impact of ‘Blood Quantum’ in Māori Identity”
… will draw on the Indigenous Māori methodology of pūrākau, or story work for its structure and method to explore the above questions relating to Indigenous identity. The pūrākau approach enables the research to harness mātauranga Māori knowledge such as whakapapa and korero tuku iho alongside …
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Mai i te kore, ki te pō, ki te ao mārama: He kohinga pūrākau hauora o ngā kaumātua Māori, Māori Elders health and wellbeing stories in life transitions
… to the call from Māori academics to apply pūrākau as an alternative to Western narrative approaches. Through a pūrākau approach, this thesis sought to answer three key research questions: 1)What are the cultural and communication features of the kaumātua teina narratives? 2) What are the …
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Whare Kōhungahunga Māori, teitei ka eke: “High quality” early learning for tamariki-mokopuna Māori
… by Kaupapa Māori theory and methodology. Pūrākau, informed by semi-structured interviews, and document analysis are the methods used to examine whānau perspectives of high-quality early learning for tamariki-mokopuna Māori. The early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, …
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An exploration of the maternity experiences of wāhine Māori in their encounters with midwife Lead Maternity Carers
… theory and mana wāhine theory to explore the pūrākau (stories) of Māori women and their midwifery care to answer the research question “What are the maternity experiences of wāhine Māori in their encounters with Lead Maternity Care (LMC) midwives?” The purpose of this research project was to …
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Ko wai tō ingoa? The transformative potential of Māori names
… Indigenous communities. This thesis foregrounds Pūrākau as a research method to tell the kōrero ingoa (naming stories) of six generations of one whānau, totalling twenty-six different stories. I explore the possibilities of pūrākau as a method and ako (to teach/ learn) as a powerful component in …
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Te karanga tūturu o maieke: Ngāti Kuri women’s taiao geographies
… women have been represented and marginalised. Pūrākau (storywork) as a theory and methodology ensures Ngāti Kuri women’s stories are told by them and for them. Indigenous relational geography is woven into the theoretical framework to further understand Indigenous relationships to place and …
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Te aho tapu: Mātauranga a Māui ancient knowledge and preserving culture through practice
… Validation is founded in our iwi repositories, pūrākau, ngā waiata, mōteatea, karakia, whaikōrero, rituals of encounter and the arts. Raranga as the creative vehicle affords the means to analogize kaupapa Māui. The creation of a Kākahu/Korowai is the appropriate representation as its …
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Maori registered nurses experiences after completing the nursing entry to practice transition programme between the years of 2010 - 2012
… The purpose of this study was to capture kōrero pūrākau (experiences) of Māori nurses who transitioned from being an undergraduate nursing student to RN by completing the 12 month Nursing Entry To Practice Transition Programme also known as NETP. Participants from two District health Boards who …
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Resting our bodies upon Papatūānuku: An exploration of how community dance may foster connections to whenua for rangatahi
… engaged in interviews as conversation and shared pūrākau through a hui to unpack the process and journey experienced. From this hui, three themes emerged: the transformational process of physically connecting to whenua, the collective development of a culturally responsive pedagogy, and a critical …
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Getting insight into the wellbeing needs of Māori youth : perspectives of students attending alternative education : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
… for a Māori-centred research praxis, using pūrākau as a form of narrative inquiry and photo-elicitation as an ancillary tool in facilitating rangatahi Māori voices. Both rangatahi Māori and their AE tutor’s perspectives are collected through kanohi-ki-te-kanohi (face-to-face interviews) and …
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Ngā Wai E Rere Nei: The Physical and Symbolic Representations of Embodied Waters of Birth and Mourning
… whakapapa, waiata mōteatea, haka and pūrākau, alongside other research literature in the field. The research approach also included an auto-ethnographic component that has enabled me to connect my own observations and practices, with this literature, to demonstrate how tikanga in …
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Coming Into Being: Productive Potentials, Creativity, and Wellbeing in the Lives of BIPOC Women and Femmes in Aotearoa
… BIPOC negotiate their wellbeing. Pūrākau, photo elicitation, Indigenous auto-ethnography, and poetic inquiry methods were employed to tell the seven peer (participant) narratives. This methodology highlights creative existence and decoloniality in the lives of the research peers …
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Not without consequence: Tangata Whenua Tiriti educators in tertiary learning spaces
… to both method and methodology approaches and pūrākau weaves with autoethnography and poetic inquiry as both analysis and response. For the participants and the researcher, praxis and practices weave together words and wairua, with an invitation to the reader to engage in an indigenous analysis …
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Carers of elderly whānau their invisible voices
… From te ao Māori, I created a kaupapa Māori pūrākau methodology called ātārangi ki te ātarangi (shadow to shadow) Maori indigenous research. The te ao Pākehā model included relativist ontology to capture the multiple realities developed from social interactions together with a constructivist …
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Te pā harakeke: Educational success and kōhanga reo
… was then represented as multi-generational pūrākau (a Māori form of storying) to ensure the narratives relating to educational success remained intact and culturally valid. The findings of this research show the meaning of educational success for the three generations in kōhanga reo was …
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He moana pukepuke e ekengia e te waka: Navigating a changing climate: A waka voyaging perspective
… responses today and into the future. Guided by a Pūrākau and Kaupapa Māori research approach, I undertook a large-scale literature review and conducted seven in-depth semi-structured one-to-one interviews with Māori voyagers trained in traditional Pacific non-instrument ocean navigation. I …
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The Story Weavers: Collective Counter-Story Sharing and Māori women’s experiences with Crown education, healthcare, and criminal justice systems
… with multiple forms of storytelling ranging from pūrākau to personal narratives this study centres those stories often minimised or hidden behind statistics. One of the study’s main contributions is the methodologies for gathering narrative data and how women’s stories frame and contextualise the …
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