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- Title: Insights into kaupapa Māori: Tikanga
- Description: This video explores Tikanga.
- Video Duration: 5 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/772241190?h=c616f6b5f0
- Transcript: English Tikanga. There are numerous explanations of tikanga. There are tikanga that govern behaviour on the marae. There are tikanga that pertain to our homes
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Tikanga. There are numerous explanations of tikanga. There are tikanga that govern behaviour on the marae. There are tikanga that pertain to our homes, and tikanga that pertain to our families our sub-tribes and our tribes. There are many explanations of tikanga. There are many aspects.
It connects to all the things that we do, our language, and aspects of Māori knowledge, the aspects that pertain to our homes, our true homeland, our land. Indeed, all tikanga is there. Therefore, if we were to follow the themes that relate to us, the Māori people, we must follow. We must make connections to tikanga.
For lots of people, the very first point of contact is on the marae. So, the very first point of contact is on the marae. So, for a lot of our students and family and teachers, they will see tikanga in action for the first time on the marae. And so what is this thing of tikanga? And to me, it's a way to behave and interact with people and my surroundings. Te taha wairua, you know, the unseen world that keeps me safe. So I know in each circumstance, if I can follow tikanga in how I interact with people. How do I interact with my pakeke? How do I interact with my tamariki? How to interact if I'm going on to a marae? How do I behave if I'm hosting people onto my marae or onto my whare? How do I behave at tangihanga? How do I behave at hākari? And tikanga tells me how to do that. And what it does is it protects me, and my mana, and my wairua. And it protects the mana and the wairua of the people who I am interacting with as well.
It gives me the mechanism to judge what is pono, what is tika and perhaps what is given with aroha. But it does provide the blueprint for reading and being able to anticipate what might be about to unfold when I'm in a social context.
How to implement it in the classroom? If a subject or a learning area is ever entering in a te ao Māori space through their content or through their pedagogy, then that’s an opportunity to engage in tikanga. Isn't it? And so if we are in the Food and Nutrition Department, there's always opportunity to engage with tikanga in that space. One hundred percent. If we're in the Outdoor Education space, there’s always opportunity to engage with tikanga in that space. If I'm going to visit the domain of Tāne or Tangaroa, there's a multitude of tikanga that you can follow to keep you and your students safe. If you're in the technology space working with wood, you know, you're creating things in that space, a lot of tikanga there as well.
There are multiple resonances, isn't it, with the way in which tikanga plays out as we engage with people. And increasingly we're challenged to think about mātauranga, ownership of mātauranga, the whole ability to think about even data sovereignty in terms of evidence, how it's housed, who houses it? The whole idea of individualism and collectivism too. So as I collect evidence about one person, invariably, I'm collecting it about a whakapapa, about a group of people. So what does that mean too, in the ways in which we engage respectfully with communities? What are your thoughts?
You have a right. There are other tikanga we need to follow in relation to the collection of research data. There are also tikanga on how to use the data collected. The question is: Who does the information belong to? Where did the information come from? Who will care for it?
Te Reo Māori
Tikanga. He nui ngā whakamārama mō, mō tikanga. Ko ngā tikanga e pā ana ki ngā marae ko ngā tikanga e pā ana ki wā tātou kāinga, ngā tikanga e pā ana ki wā tātou whānau wā tātou hapū, wā tātou iwi. He nui ngā whakamārama he nui ngā āhuatanga. Ka hono atu tēnei ki wā tātou mahi katoa i roto o wā tātou, te reo, i roto o ngā āhuatanga mō mātauranga Māori, i roto o ngā āhuatanga e pā ana ki wā tātou kāinga haukāinga, wā tātou whenua, kei reira katoa ngā tikanga. Nō reira, mehemea kei te whai haere tātou i ngā kaupapa e pā ana ki tātou te iwi Māori me whai atu anō, me hono atu anō ki ngā tikanga.
Mō te nuinga o ngā tāngata ko te wāhi tuatahi e kitea ai te tikanga ko te marae. Nā, ko te wāhi tuatahi e kitea ai te tikanga ko te marae. Nā, mō te nuinga o ā tātou ākonga, ngā whānau me ngā kaiako ko te marae te wāhi tuatahi e kite ai rātou i te whakatinanatanga o ngā tikanga, he aha hoki tēnei mea te tikanga? Ki ōku whakaaro he whanonga, he tauwhitiwhiti ki te tangata me taku taiao. Ko te taha wairua, te wāhi matahuna tērā, e tiaki ana i ahau. Nā, e mōhio ana ahau i ia āhuatanga, ki te ū ahau ki te tikanga o te āhua o taku tauwhitiwhiti me te tangata, ka pēhea taku tauwhitiwhiti ki ōku pākeke, ka pēhea taku tauwhitiwhiti ki aku tamariki? Ka pēhea taku tauwhitiwhiti ina haere au ki tētahi marae? Me pēhea te āhua o aku whanonga mēnā e manaaki ana au i tētahi iwi i taku marae ki taku whare rānei? Me pēhea aku whanonga i te tangihanga? Me pēhea aku whanonga i te hākari? Ko tā te tikanga, he tohutohu mai ki ahau me pēhea. Ko tāna, he tiaki i ahau, taku mana me taku wairua, ā, ka tiaki i te mana me te wairua o ngā tāngata e tauwhitiwhiti nei ahau hoki.
Ka tuku mai ki ahau tētahi tikanga whakawā he aha te pono, he aha te tika, ā, i ngā mea ka homai i runga i te aroha. Engari ka whakarato hoki i te mahere mō te mahi pānui me te āhei ki te matapae he aha ngā mahi kei tua i ahau e tū ana i te horopaki ā-pāpori.
He aha te whakatinana ki te akomanga? Mēnā e kuhu atu ana tētahi kaupapa, kaupapa ako rānei, ki tētahi mokowā ao Māori, arā, ngā kōrero, ngā tikanga ako rānei, koinā te āheinga ki te whakauru ki te tikanga. Nē rā? Nō reira mēnā tātou kei roto i te Tari Kai me te Taioranga, he āheinga anō tērā ki te whakauru ki te tikanga i taua mokowā. Āe mārika. Mēnā tātou kei te mokowā mātauranga taiao, he āheinga anō tērā ki te whakauru atu ki te tikanga i taua mokowā. Ki te haere au ki te ao o Tāne, o Tangaroa rānei, he nui ngā tikanga ka taea e koe te whai haere e noho haumaru ai koutou ko ō tauira. Mēnā kei roto koe i te mokowā hangarau e mahi ana me te rākau, kei te mōhio koe, kei te hanga mea koe i roto i taua mokowā, otirā he nui ngā tikanga kei taua mokowā.
He huhua ngā take paoro nē, arā, mō te āhuatanga o te tikanga i a tātou e tauwhitiwhiti ana ki te tangata otirā e nui haere ake ana ngā wero hei whai whakaarotanga te mātauranga, te rangatiratanga o te mātauranga, te āhei ki te whai whakaaro ki te tino rangatiratanga o ngā raraunga, otirā e pā ana ki ngā taunakitanga, te rokiroki, mā wai e tiaki? Te whakaaro nui o te takitahi me te tōpūtanga hoki. Nā, i ahau e kohi taunakitanga ana mō tētahi tangata, i te mutunga iho, e kohikohi ana ahau i te whakapapa, o tētahi rōpū tangata. Nā, he aha te tikanga o tērā, arā, ngā huarahi e whakaute ai te whakawhiti whakaaro ki ngā hapori? He aha ō whakaaro?
He tika tāhau. He tikanga anō me whai atu tātou e pā ana ki ngā āhuatanga o te kohikohi rangahau. He tikanga anō mō te whakamahi i ngā rangahau kua kohikohitia Ko te pātai, nā wai, nā wai ngā kōrero? I ahu mai ngā kōrero i hea? Mā wai e tiaki?