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Item Mātai ako: Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching(Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the Association for Tertiary Education Management, 2025-05-23) Severinsen C; Erueti B; Desai F; Mahuika R; Graham P; Tawhai RThis article examines initiatives within the College of Health at Massey University to embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching. Situated within broader strategies, it focuses on the Mātai Ako initiative, which supports staff in building an understanding of Te Tiriti, developing competence, and aligning curricula. Drawing on national policy and university commitments, the initiative advances four actions: developing foundational knowledge, offering skill-building workshops, providing pedagogical mentoring, and reviewing curricula. Early outcomes include increased understanding, pedagogical shifts, and identification of next steps, though sustaining systemic change remains a challenge. The initiative is guided by an ethic of open communication, collective growth, and a staged approach that centres mātauranga Māori while respecting diverse starting points. It offers lessons for higher education institutions navigating tensions between Western academic traditions and obligations to Indigenous rights. Despite ongoing challenges, strategic alignment has established a platform for meaningful change.Item A Critical Tiriti Analysis of the New Zealand Disability Strategy 2016-2026(University of Hawai'i Center on Disability Studies, 2022-11-24) Came H; McCreanor T; Manson LHealth policy is one mechanism to address inequities and protect Indigenous people’s access to the shared human right to health. Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Māori text) negotiated between the British Crown and Māori (the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa) outlines the social contract between Māori and Non-Māori. It was negotiated in part to protect Māori health. Within Aotearoa there continues to be significant ethnic inequities in disabilities. This paper undertakes a retrospective Critical Tiriti Analysis of the New Zealand Disability Strategy to determine its compliance with Te Tiriti. It also considers whether such an analysis might strengthen responsiveness to Indigenous peoples elsewhere. This analysis involved a five-phase process of review. Through our analysis we identified poor to fair engagement with the responsibilities outlined in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. There were promising statements about the special relationship between the Crown and Māori, conflicting statements about governance and self-determination, and limited engagement with ethnic specific equity concerns or spirituality. To strengthen the Strategy the authors determined Tāngata whaikaha (Māori disabled people’s) views needed to be more strongly centered within the structure and content. The historical and contemporary determinants of Māori health needed to be included along with deeper engagement with intersectionality and Te Tiriti o Waitangi responsibilities. Undertaking critical policy analysis is an effective method to inform and review policy that may be applicable in other settler-colonial contexts with significant ethnic health inequities.Item Co-production of insights for place-based approaches to revitalise te taiao in Aotearoa New Zealand(John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of New Zealand Geographical Society, 2024-11-16) Turner JA; Stokes S; Jones RTH; Hemi M; Collins H; Vannier C; Burkitt L; Bradley C; Doehring K; Macintosh KA; Young J; Roskruge N; Perry-Smith P; Iosefa RK; Walker N; Young F; Bell A; McDermott A; Wood CCommunities across Aotearoa New Zealand are collaborating to reverse ecological decline, but little attention has been given to understanding the deeper relationship required with our physical and socio-cultural landscapes. We used knowledge co-production to develop 11 insights to support place-based strategies that nurture a collective responsibility to revitalise both people and place. Twenty-five subject matter experts across communities, government, industry and research drew from their collective expertise and the review of 63 local-to-global case study examples of farm-to-community-scale place-based approaches. A key output from this work is an Aotearoa New Zealand framework that diagrammatically represents the interdisciplinary nature of the 11 insights.Item Small stories, small acts in sites of struggle: the establishmentof Māori wards in Taranaki(The Royal Society of New Zealand, 7/03/2023) Piwari A; Bennett A; Morris C; Wynyard M; Shaw RBetween 2001 and 2021, the eight iwi of Taranaki entered into Deeds of Settlement with the Crown. These settlements, which saw the Crown acknowledge and apologise for its historical breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, also served to extinguish the rights of Taranaki Māori to seek further redress from the Crown. The Treaty Settlement process over, Taranaki Māori and the many non-Māori that have settled in the rohe (tribal territory) are left to themselves to deal with any lingering tensions, ongoing enmity and forms of structural injustice stemming from the settler-colonial process. This paper is not about the formal processes of colonisation or Crown-initiated attempts to atone for the past through the Treaty Settlement process. Rather, this paper concerns the painstaking work of change undertaken on the ground by local people, Māori and non-Māori alike. It concerns the ‘small stories’ of colonisation, the myriad endeavours of local people working for change in local contexts. In particular, the article concerns the fight for Māori wards on Councils in New Plymouth and South Taranaki, and the extraordinary work done by ordinary people in attempting to forge some kind of future of togetherness in a region riven by the violence of colonisation.