Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Ad Borsboom
- Contents
- Maradjiri and Mamurrng: Ad Borsboom and Me
- Conversations with Mostapha: Learning about Islamic Law in a Bookshop in Rabat
- Education in Eighteenth Century Polynesia
- From Knowledge to Consciousness: Teachers, Teachings, and the Transmission of Healing
- When ‘Natives’ Use What Anthropologists Wrote: The Case of Dutch Rif Berbers
- The Experience of the Elders: Learning Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Netherlands
- On Hermeneutics, Ad’s Antennas and the Wholly Other
- Bontius in Batavia: Early Steps in Intercultural Communication
- Ceremonies of Learning and Status in Jordan
- Al Amien: A Modern Variant of an Age-Old Educational Institution
- Yolngu and Anthropological Learning Styles in Ritual Contexts
- Learning to Be White in Guadeloupe
- Learning from ‘the Other’, Writing about ‘the Other’
- Maori Styles of Teaching and Learning
- Tutorials as Integration into a Study Environment
- The Transmission of Kinship Knowledge
- Fieldwork in Manus, Papua New Guinea: On Change, Exchange and Anthropological Knowledge
- Bodily Learning: The Case of Pilgrimage by Foot to Santiago de Compostela
- Just Humming: The Consequence of the Decline of Learning Contexts among the Warlpiri
- A Note on Observation
- Fragments of Transmission of Kamoro Culture (South-West Coast, West Papua), Culled from Fieldnotes, 1952-1954
- Getting Answers May Take Some Time… The Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay) Workshop on the Transfer of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit from Elders to Youths, June 20 - 27, 2004
- Conflict in the Classroom: Values and Educational Success
- The Teachings of Tokunupei
- Consulting the Old Lady
- A Chain of Transitional Rites: Teachings beyond Boundaries
- ‘That Tour Guide – Im Gotta Know Everything’: Tourism as a Stage for Teaching ‘Culture’ in Aboriginal Australia
- The Old Fashioned Funeral: Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Maori Styles of Teaching and Learning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Ad Borsboom
- Contents
- Maradjiri and Mamurrng: Ad Borsboom and Me
- Conversations with Mostapha: Learning about Islamic Law in a Bookshop in Rabat
- Education in Eighteenth Century Polynesia
- From Knowledge to Consciousness: Teachers, Teachings, and the Transmission of Healing
- When ‘Natives’ Use What Anthropologists Wrote: The Case of Dutch Rif Berbers
- The Experience of the Elders: Learning Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Netherlands
- On Hermeneutics, Ad’s Antennas and the Wholly Other
- Bontius in Batavia: Early Steps in Intercultural Communication
- Ceremonies of Learning and Status in Jordan
- Al Amien: A Modern Variant of an Age-Old Educational Institution
- Yolngu and Anthropological Learning Styles in Ritual Contexts
- Learning to Be White in Guadeloupe
- Learning from ‘the Other’, Writing about ‘the Other’
- Maori Styles of Teaching and Learning
- Tutorials as Integration into a Study Environment
- The Transmission of Kinship Knowledge
- Fieldwork in Manus, Papua New Guinea: On Change, Exchange and Anthropological Knowledge
- Bodily Learning: The Case of Pilgrimage by Foot to Santiago de Compostela
- Just Humming: The Consequence of the Decline of Learning Contexts among the Warlpiri
- A Note on Observation
- Fragments of Transmission of Kamoro Culture (South-West Coast, West Papua), Culled from Fieldnotes, 1952-1954
- Getting Answers May Take Some Time… The Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay) Workshop on the Transfer of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit from Elders to Youths, June 20 - 27, 2004
- Conflict in the Classroom: Values and Educational Success
- The Teachings of Tokunupei
- Consulting the Old Lady
- A Chain of Transitional Rites: Teachings beyond Boundaries
- ‘That Tour Guide – Im Gotta Know Everything’: Tourism as a Stage for Teaching ‘Culture’ in Aboriginal Australia
- The Old Fashioned Funeral: Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Summary
My education as a Maori was a matter of observation while I grew up in this complete community. It was a community where children were allowed to do their thing, where there was a place for the aged, and a place for the middle-aged. These places were within the structure of tribal organisation. I had to move through this as an apprenticeship for group living. We had to learn the dynamics of group living. We had to learn how to live together because we were in one another's pockets. If we didn’t, problems would have arisen. From the time we were children we had to learn what it meant to be part of an extended family. We were warned not to do some things and we learned by others’ experience.
John Rangihau (1975: 165)New Zealand is often contrasted with Australia as a country with more exemplary relations between its indigenous population, the Maori, and the European settler majority. Although Maori social and economic indicators are comparatively more favourable, however, the indigenous people continue to lag behind the average European New Zealander. The latest census figures dating from 2006 have reconfirmed the gap between Maori and non-Maori (or Pakeha, as they are generally labelled in New Zealand). Disparities between Maori and Pakeha are evident in most dimensions of society, including education.
The latest statistics show that the gap in secondary and tertiary educational achievement for Maori versus non-Maori is still significant. Maori school retention rates have recently improved, but Maori are still leaving school earlier than Pakeha. In addition, almost 40 per cent of Maori have no formal qualification as against 25 per cent of non-Maori. Furthermore, Maori continue to lag in post-school qualifications with about 28 per cent of Maori holding one, compared with almost 40 per cent of Pakeha. Thus, disparities between Maori and non-Maori remain, in spite of Maori improvements over the past few decades.
A variety of reasons has been advanced to explain the undesirable discrepancies in education between Maori and Pakeha. Some argue that socio-economic differences between the two population groups outweigh all other factors, but it is more often contended that cultural differences play a decisive role.
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- Cultural Styles of Knowledge TransmissionEssays in Honour of Ad Borsboom, pp. 85 - 90Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2009