Reflecting on Service Part II: Mātauranga Māori and the School of Science

Georgina Stewart

doi:10.24135/tekaharoa.v16i1.406

Georgina Stewart AUT

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/tekaharoa.v16i1.406

Keywords: Biculturalism, Mātauranga Māori, Science, TeTiriti o Waitangi, Universalism

Abstract

This is a reflective commentary or thinkpiece paper written as the only Māori member of the internal panel convened to review the curriculum and operations of the School of Science of AUT, my employer university. It is a personal viewpoint intended as an input for the deliberations of the panel in writing their report. It is the second of two related papers on the depth and breadth of the thinking required of a Māori academic like myself, charged with representing the urgent issues under the heading of Te Tiriti o Waitangi currently facing all eight local universities within the peripheral local academy of Aotearoa New Zealand.

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