Abstract:
While the centrality of culture in Maori education is mostly used in this book in reference to relationships between non-Mäori teachers and Maori students (and their whänau), I want to use cultural connectedness to describe the way culture is also related to and implicated in theory, research, policy and practice in some of the chapters. Hana O'Regan' s personal narrative intersects with international research, historical accounts of New Zealand schooling and decolonising critiques providing a great overview for understanding how the threat of Maori language death has occurred (and continues), and what it may mean for our survival as Maori.