‘You Model What You Want To See From Them’

Abstract

There are many reasons to incorporate Māori content into university courses. This article suggests a number of scholarly strategies designed to assist primarily non-Māori academics to enhance their effectiveness as teachers of Māori content and students in a university setting. Not an exhaustive list, these approaches were collected through interviews with five non-Māori lecturers at Victoria University of Wellington who have found constructive and successful ways to include Māori content. They have created learning environments in which they and their students feel culturally safe and supported, and have integrated a range of Māori content that is relevant to their particular subject or course. The strategies are reported to have been effective in a university context and may be transferable to other educational contexts.