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Early Childhood Education: Te Tiriti and Ako resources

Your portal to ECE resources

This page has resources on Māori pedagogy, teaching within a te ao Māori framework, including providing learning that supports the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and incorporating mātauranga Māori.

Useful books

Āta Kitea te Pae includes information on Te Tiriti and biculturalism in ECE (availability: print book).

Te Aotūroa Tātaki looks at inclusive practices for all tamariki, including using Te Tiriti for a bi-cultural approach to ECE (availability: multiple print and eBook copies).

Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa examines what culturally inclusive education looks like post-Te Whariki (availability: print and eBook).

Ki te Hoe examines how Te Tiriti can be upheld in educational settings (availability: eBook).

Te Kura Tapa Wha looks at applying Mason Durie's Te Whare Tapa Wha to the school environment (availability: print book).

Niho Taniwha looks at improving teaching and learning for ākonga Māori using the Niho Taniwha model and explores how Te Tiriti can be honoured in this process (availability: print and eBook).

Journal articles


Bridget Williams Books Treaty of Waitangi Collection

The online home for Treaty scholarship. Access award-winning books anywhere, anytime and on any device. Click on the image to access the eBooks.

Note. From Bridget Williams eBook collection, by  Bridget Williams Book, 2021. (https://youtu.be/mfYlaHWfRzA). Copyright 2021 to Bridget Williams Book. Reprinted with permission (expiry date 6/03/25).

More Tiriti books

More useful books

Tiakina te Pā Harakeke discusses the values and successful practices of childrearing that have been maintained by Māori for generations (availability: print and eBook).

Availability: print (multiple copies).

Useful libguides

 

 

 

 

 

 

A comprehensive guide to Te Tiriti, Aoteaora history, and biculturalism in Aotearoa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A guide on mātauranga, tikanga, te reo, as well as Tainui and Te Kingitanga.

Useful webpages

These webpages look at the different terms used in the te reo and English versions of the treaty's articles:

The Waitangi Tribunal

NZ History

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