Keynote speakers
Towards a more power-sharing relational response between Tangata Tiriti and Tangata Whenua in education research
Panellists in this keynote symposium are working, in a diverse range of contexts, to more effectively include participants in educational research. They have been invited to consider how more relational and power-sharing responses between researcher and participants can be effectively achieved in their research. This includes considering how Kaupapa Māori and critical theories can contribute to more participatory responses, and how enacting the Articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi within their own specific contexts of interests and expertise might contribute effective learnings in these spaces.
Within the theme of Mā Muri, Mā Mua, the past informing the future, panellists will discuss how these considerations and other potential responses might play out for Tangata Tiriti and Tangata Whenua in Aotearoa.
Keynote Symposium
Scheduled at 9.30am Monday 25th the Pā, Waikato Campus - Register for conference now
Towards a more power-sharing relational response between Tangata Tiriti and Tangata Whenua in education research
Panellists in this keynote symposium are working, in a diverse range of contexts, to more effectively include participants in educational research. They have been invited to consider how more relational and power-sharing responses between researcher and participants can be effectively achieved in their research. This includes considering how Kaupapa Māori and critical theories can contribute to more participatory responses, and how enacting the Articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi within their own specific contexts of interests and expertise might contribute effective learnings in these spaces.
Within the theme of Mā Muri, Mā Mua, the past informing the future, panellists will discuss how these considerations and other potential responses might play out for Tangata Tiriti and Tangata Whenua in Aotearoa.
Professor Mere Berryman
(Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Whare) - Provocateur
Mere’s career as a classroom teacher has been followed with almost 30 years of research experience within the education sector. Central to this research is the need to develop a greater understanding of the fabric of our joint society and our history as a nation. These understandings have promoted the development, trialling and reporting of school reforms enacting more effective learning spaces for Māori learners as Māori. Mere has research experience in the delivery of iterative research and development to a wide range of sector audiences, including the collation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data for schools and team facilitators.
Professor Tangiwai Rewi
(Ngāti Tīpā, Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Amaru a Tangiwai)
Noo Waikato, noo ngaa hapuu o Ngaati Tiipaa, Ngaati Tahinga, Ngaati Amaru. Tangiwai joined Te Pua Waananga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga University of Waikato as Professor and Dean in November 2023. She has a PhD in Philosophy that investigated intergenerational knowledge transmission and pedagogy from the late 1800s until the present, and their place in today's learning environments; particularly from a Waikato Tainui perspective about practices associated with the Kiingitanga (King Movement).
Tangiwai is interested in te reo me ngaa tikanga Maaori, Maaori education and pedagogy, policy, oral tradition, and as a result of her PhD project, preserving the narratives of kaumaatua. Post doctoral studies were delayed by COVID, however Tangiwai aspires to complete comparatives studies with other iwi taketake in a similar arena. Having been away from academia for a short while, her most recent publication explores a particular waiata, Kiwi Weka, allowing readers a glimpse into the Maaori world in the Waikato during World War II. In doing so, it explores her own whakapapa and reveals relationships between Maaori and overseas servicemen, the economic and social circumstances of the times and the ongoing influence on Waikato Maaori into the 1960s through to today.
From Te Puuaha o Waikato, Tangiwai was raised in Atiamuri on a dairy farm, schooled at Queen Victoria School for Maaori Girls in Parnell Auckland before studying teaching at Hamilton Teachers College and embarking on a career in education that has spanned the past 24 years encompassing the whole of the education sector across the width and breadth of Aotearoa. She is married to Poia, has two beautiful daughters Merirangitiiria and Hinamoki and five mokopuna. In her spare time, she volunteers at Hospice Thorndon Quay and has been an Honorary Fisheries Officer for the past 15 years.
Dr Telesia Kalavite
Telesia is Tongan, from the village of Nukuleka, Tongatapu. Her ancestors are from Talafo‘ou, Lapaha and Neiafutahi. She is a teaching professional with many years of experience in primary, secondary and tertiary education in Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. Her teaching and research expertise are in: Educational Studies, Pacific Education, Indigenous Development, Geography, Cultural Studies and the Social Sciences. She is fluent in both English and Tongan languages and a freelance interpreter and noted translator in both languages. Telesia was a civil servant in Tonga before migrating to New Zealand. She is now a lecturer at Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago, co-ordinating the Pacific Programme. Telesia is also a community person and passionate about the development of Tongans and Pacific peoples wherever she works.
Dr And Pasley
Marsden Research Fellow – Pouako/Lecturer
Faculty of Education and Social Work
Waipapa Taumata Rau – University of Auckland
Ko Airana te whakapaparanga maiKo Tāmaki te whenua tupuHe tangata tiriti me ngāti pākehā ahauKo Ampersand (And) Pasley ahau.
Ampersand (And) Pasley is a Marsden research fellow and lecturer at the University of Auckland whose scholarship employs relational ontologies and postqualitative approaches to explore trans/gender lives, coloniality, time, and sexuality education. Their doctoral research explored the response-abilities of trans secondary students’ spacetimegenderings in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since completing their PhD in 2022, And’s work has focused on trans wellbeing and intersex communication in Aotearoa, rainbow violence prevention, everyday sexisms in Australian universities, queer quantum, and more-than-human temporalities. Collaborating with Associate Investigator Benjamin Doyle (Ngāpuhi/Pākehā) and a tuākana kaitiaki rōpū, And’s Marsden research involves co-designing wānanga with trans and irawhiti takatāpui rangatahi in Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Tai Tokerau to explore what it might mean for sexuality education to support them to flourish. And edits Knowledge Cultures with Associate Professor Sean Sturm; co-edited a book, Gender Un/bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities (Routledge), with Professors Susanne Gannon and Jayne Osgood, available December 2nd 2024; and are releasing their thesis as a book, titled Mapping Trans Students’ Spacetimegenderings (Springer), available early 2025.
Dr Ruth Gibbons
Dr Ruth Gibbons is a sensory anthropologist who works at Massey University and has been doing collaborative research with dyslexic adults for 12 years. She is passionate about the possibilities of methods to open up new and empowering ways to explore lived experiences. Her work focuses on bringing collaborators’ voices to the front of research through using sculpture, digital imagery, animation, film and other mediums, as both research process and representation of research. This has included two gallery exhibitions. Her research has an activist lens as she believe the academy needs to move beyond existing dominant models of scholarship and to look at the wider possibilities using a variety of different mediums - particularly when engaging with diverse ways of knowing and interpreting the world. She is currently writing up research in graphic novel form as a place for theorising neurodiverse worlds; through the process she finding the potential of the medium in exploring new ways to theorise the world as well. See https://www.ruth-gibbons.com/about.
Keynote speaker
Scheduled at 8.45am the Pā, Waikato Campus
Professor Te Taka Keegan
Nō Waikato-Maniapoto, nō Ngāti Porou, nō Ngāti Whakaue hoki.
Kei Ngāhinapōuri e noho ana, kei te pūtake o te maunga o Pirongia.
Kua roa ia e mahi ana ki te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, me tana aro ki te whai huarahi mō te reo rangatira ki te ao hangarau.
Te Taka received a Diploma in Computer Engineering from CIT (Wellington) in 1987. He spent six years working as a hardware engineer for Datacom and Digital before returning to the Waikato and Waikato University. He received a BA through the Te Tohu Paetahi stream (Māori immersion) and in 1996 was awarded an MA having completed a thesis on traditional navigation. Te Taka worked with the Māori Department and then in 1997 switched to the Computer Science Department. He completed a PhD in 2007, titled Indigenous Language Usage in a Digital Library: He Hautoa Kia Ora Tonu Ai.
Te Taka has worked on a number of projects involving the Māori language and technology. These include the Māori Niupepa Collection, Te Kete Ipurangi, the Microsoft keyboard, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in Māori, Moodle in Māori, Google Web Search in Māori, the Māori macroniser and SwiftKey for Māori. In 2009 Te Taka spent 6 months with Google in Mountain View as a visiting scientist assisting with the Google Translator Toolkit for Māori. Further work with Google led to Translate in Māori.
In 2013 Te Taka was awarded the University of Waikato's Māori/Indigenous Excellence Award for Research. In 2017 Te Taka was awarded the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
Mā Muri Mā Mua ki te Ao AI - traditional practises guiding AI development
This talk will discuss some research we are currently undertaking to return principles of Māori Data Sovereignty to Generative reo Māori Artificial Intelligence. It will begin by describing what forms of AI are available today, and where teachers and students are seeking to utilise these tools. Controversies around AI and their implications for the education, as highlighted by UNESCO, will be detailed. The talk when this switch into a demonstration of current AI technologies in te reo Māori and will show how these work alarmingly well. It is alarming because the tools are created without recognition of Māori data sovereignty; it is, a mā muri, without the mā mua. The significance of this will be discussed, and a solution will be offered where mana Māori motuhake over reo Māori AI technologies can be realised.
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