Cultural Competency

Cultural Competency

Dr Kuni Jenkins

Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi

Aim for teachers in New Zealand to understand the culture and how to teach cultural perspective.

Evidence of Māori attitudes, aptitudes and participation and performance in the early years based on expectations of what they saw happening in school.

Te Hāpai Ō has been significant in programme in producing competent mentors called Pou Tautoko (name of the mentor) and beginning teachers called Pia (Beginning teacher).  Available to all schools in Aotearoa.  Unfortunately the programme is gathering dust.  

Found there is a gap in the teaching sector to provide a cultural teaching teachers programme.  Why?  To address the threatened indigenous heritage language of Aotearoa through the cultural contexts.  

NZCER found that there was facing imminent death.  12 August 1816 was the first school in Aotearoa.  

First book He Korao no Niu Zealand

Ruatara...Sailed to visit the King.

Around the second World War, things started becoming resistant and Māori was not being taught so much.  Te Rangihiroa?? Yale

Mentor programme allows teachers to demonstrate that they can teach Māori in New Zealand schools.

Whanaungatanga...to gather in collaborative, supportive and effective relationships.

Manaakitanga...to develop a spirit of caring and sharing where the idea of reciprocity becomes a firmly rooted practice.

Kaitiakitanga...to use culturally responsive strategies to embrace and protect what are respected taonga.

Rangatiratanga...to recognise the leadership attributes of a person.

Wairuatanga... to place a ethical responsibility on a person in the way they engage with others.

Kōtahitanga...to focus on the unity of purpose to achieve.

Mātauranga...to ensure the acquisition of knowledge and intellectualism.

Te Tataiako...

Education should prepare you for a successful adult life.  

Respect and Mana of each child.