Abstract:
The Aotearoa New Zealand educational context afforded the evolution of significant and unique contributions to worldwide literacy teaching and learning. The intention is to narrate the story of literacy teaching in Aotearoa primary schools to capture the societal, cultural, and educational factors that promoted the development and spread of literacy innovations. Nga tukutuku (woven Māori panels) represent a tradition of New Zealand literacy education in which educators worked synchronously to construct seamless panels of foundational principles of literacy learning and teaching. The storied principles do not belong to individuals rather they were collectively authored across organizational borders. We mined documents to identify individuals across sectors, who served as key informants or storytellers, to understand essential factors to drive the future.