Place Based learning Culturally Responsive...

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Culturally Responsive Curriculum: Place Based learning

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Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teiteiSeek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain


My Special Place: Maungakeikei


• Your connection to place• Society and school’s responsibility• My listening and learning: a case study.


Whanaungatanga

Purpose: to make connections together &to our land.

Think of a place that has meaning to you.

Share why this is your special place with your group.


Looking back on either your own childhood experience OR more recently, what has been the dialogue or rhetoric about place-based education?

Talk in threes.

What curriculum in Aotearoa is valued?


“The inhabitants of these islands… appear to me to have been descended from a once powerful people… Here gradually degenrating into barbarism, from a high state of civilisation.. they ultimately passed to the last stage of moral degraduation.” John Nicholas, from Narrative of a voyage to NZ, 1817.”

“It is unquestionable, I think, that a great many Maori people voted Labour because of what they hoped to get from social security.” Sidney Holland, Leader of the Opposition, 1947.

“Maori Language Week, now a permanent annual fixture, is one of the occassions where our determination to give no offence blossoms into the urge to grovel…” Columnist Dave Witherow in the Otaga Daily Times, 2017.


The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that “if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story”.

Place based curriculum


A beautiful Māori adage that Rangitihi Rangiwaiata Tahuparae used to say in Parliament is: “Māi ngā taringa, ka kite; māi ngā karu, ka rongo”, a metaphor which means “Listen with your eyes; see with your ears”.

Place based curriculum


Think about how you belong to that story.Search and value the stories of your place.You don’t need to be an expert. Offer it to your ākonga. Let them share with their whānau and come back to the class to add to and clarify.Always value who is telling the story & why…..

Listen to the stories of the land

Culturally Responsive Curriculum is when teachers recognise, reflect & validate students’ whanau history, culture, & worldviews in the classroom curriculum.

How do you do that?• Know your learners and their whānau,

hapu and iwi.• Start local go global• Adapt the curriculum so there is a

balance of window & mirror texts.• Value choice and flexibility• Value exploration of different ways of

working, cultural perspectives etc• Value voice (student, whānau,

community) ako • Build student, whānau, hāpu & iwi

agency.“Do I see myself in what I learn?”

Alana [email protected] 313 7220

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