2010
DOI: 10.1375/s1326011100000971
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Connecting New Zealand Teachers of Science with their Māori Students

Abstract: This paper illustrates how important changes can occur in science learning and teaching if teachers take the trouble to understand and respect the cultural worlds of Indigenous students, and incorporate something of this understanding within their teaching practice. Ten teachers participated in a specially-designed one-year university postgraduate course, which encouraged them to incorporate into their classroom learning two Māori pedagogical principles, ako and whakawhanaungatanga. Ako is a responsive and rec… Show more

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“…She has extensive experience in classroom teaching and senior school leadership. The first author and Therese met through the delivery of a University of Waikato Special Topic Science Education Masters course (Glynn, Cowie, Otrel-Cass, & Macfarlane, 2010), focused on improving the engagement and learning of primary school Māori students in science. Mere and Therese similarly met through her postgraduate study.…”
Section: Therese Fordmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…She has extensive experience in classroom teaching and senior school leadership. The first author and Therese met through the delivery of a University of Waikato Special Topic Science Education Masters course (Glynn, Cowie, Otrel-Cass, & Macfarlane, 2010), focused on improving the engagement and learning of primary school Māori students in science. Mere and Therese similarly met through her postgraduate study.…”
Section: Therese Fordmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The three principles are illustrated with vignettes taken from the classroom-based work I have undertaken with colleagues as part of the LISP (Assessment) study (Bell and Cowie 2001 ); the Classroom InSiTE study (Cowie et al 2013 ); the Quality Teaching Research and Development project (QTR&D) (Glynn et al 2010 ); and Culturally responsive pedagogy and assessment project (CRP&A) (Cowie et al 2011 ).…”
Section: Principles For Assessment As a Sociocultural Activitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Math instruction would incorporate everyday-life concepts, such as economics, employment, various ethnic groups' consumptive habits (e.g., farmers, cattle herders, retailers, etc.). Science instruction would engage students' development, expressing and sharing cumulative understanding of science while caring and respecting relationships among people in classrooms and among students' cultural (or informal science) and subject content knowledge (Glynn, et al, 2010).…”
Section: Developing Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learningmentioning
confidence: 99%