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What’s in a (Māori) name?

Georgina Tuari Stewart and Andrew Gibbons

Around the motu (country), universities (and other sectors) are coming under increasing pressure from central agencies to include the use of te reo Māori in the everyday life and core business of the institution, as a matter of compliance. For the universities, this is a radical departure from past practice, which has tended towards the […]

Full Citation Information:
Stewart, G. T., & Gibbons, A. (2023). What’s in a (Māori) name?. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/whats-in-a-maori-name/

Georgina Tuari Stewart

Georgina Tuari Stewart (ko Whakarārā te maunga, ko Matauri te moana, ko Te Tāpui te marae, ko Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu te iwi) is Professor of Māori Philosophy of Education in Te Ara Poutama, Auckland University of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of Māori Philosophy: Indigenous thinking from Aotearoa, which introduces Māori philosophy as a Kaupapa Māori approach to studying Māori knowledge.

Andrew Gibbons

Andrew Gibbons is an early childhood teacher, teacher educator and Professor at the School of Education, AUT - Auckland University of Technology. He has previously worked in journalism, and social services in England. He is an executive committee member of the Association of Visual Pedagogies and a member and former secretary of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.