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- Title: Insights into kaupapa Māori: Manaakitanga
- Description: This video explores Manaakitanga.
- Video Duration: 4 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/772281185?h=b92fd84dac
- Transcript: English What is this thing called manaakitanga? It is an important thing to me. Perhaps manaakitanga is the most important thing to me
English
What is this thing called manaakitanga? It is an important thing to me. Perhaps manaakitanga is the most important thing to me, the main purpose. I have heard of people talking about the explanation of manaakitanga. Here is the sentence - 'give mana/esteem to others'. That is one thing I have heard. So I show my manaakitanga and I express my manaakitanga for others by feeding them mana. I give mana to them. Not my mana, but I give mana to the other person. And that's how I show my manaakitanga. And then what that manifests as could be a whole range of things. It can be through my kai. It can be how I welcome them into my whare or my room. It's how I interact with them. So mana ki te tangata was a way for me to understand how I interpret manaakitanga.
Awesome. You are correct. I think, 'give esteem to others, receive esteem back,' yes? And so again, you know, it is about recognising the pre-existing mana that resides with those and what I engage with, but that then simultaneously, actually elevates my mana. So it is a reciprocal relationship that in order to elevate or to maintain my mana, it’s dependent also on recognising yours. So the mana that I recognise that exists outside of me then returns to me and equally, simultaneously, elevates my own manaaki ki te tangata. Kia ora.
Correct. The most important thing is to manaaki. No matter who it is, no matter where, the main thing is to manaaki people. Whether your manaakitanga is food, that is fine. Perhaps it is caring, it is encouraging the family. That is also fine. But the main thing is to really care for others. And that's one of the essentials of, I'd say, looking after people, of ensuring that your visitors are well looked-after, ensuring that your family is well looked-after as well, and ensuring that everything is in place so that they would be made as comfortable as possible and they would be able to go away saying ‘they really looked after us.’ Yeah, and manaakitanga is a bit like wairuatanga. Comes from the heart, eh? It's from within. You can feel whether someone wants you in the room.
If I think about manaakitanga within an educational context, what it does is it challenges teachers to think a lot more about teaching the totality of the student. It's no longer just teaching from the neck up, which is what we've done historically. We thought about our curriculum content and we've only engaged the mind. But now what we're trying to say is, what is the totality of the child that is standing in front of me? How do I meet those needs in order for their readiness to be able to learn, to engage?
Te Reo Māori
He aha tēnei mea te manaakitanga? He mea nui ki ahau. Tērā pea ko te manaakitanga te tino mea ki ahau, te tino kaupapa. Kua rongo au i tētahi kōrero mō te whakamārama ki te manaakitanga. Ko tēnei te rerenga kōrero ‘mana ki te tangata’, ko tērā tētahi kōrero i rongo au. Ka whakaatu au i te manaakitanga me te whakaari i taku manaakitanga ki te tangata mā te whāngai i a rātou ki te mana, ka whakamana au i a rātou. Kaua ko taku mana, engari ka tuku au i te mana ki tētahi atu. Koirā te āhua o taku manaakitanga. Nā, he nui ngā mea ka puta mai i tērā. Ko te kai pea, ko te āhua rānei o taku pōhiri i te tangata ki roto i taku whare, taku rūma rānei. Ko aku whakawhitiwhiti ki te tangata. Nā reira ko mana ki te tangata he huarahi mōku kia mārama ai me pēhea taku whakamārama i te manaakitanga.
Rawe. Tika tāu. Tōku whakaaro, ‘mana ki atu, mana ki mai’, nē? Heoi anō, kia mōhio koe, ko te whakanui i te mana kua whiwhi kē, e noho ana i roto i te tangata, me ngā mea e whakawhitiwhitihia ana e au, engari i taua wā hoki, ko taku mana tonu tērā e piki ana. Nō reira he tauutuutu tērā hononga, otirā, e hiki ai, e pupuritia ai rānei taku mana, me whakanui ahau i tō mana. Nā, ka piki tahi hoki taku manaaki ki te tangata i roto i taku whakanui i te mana kei waho ake i ahau otirā ka hoki mai tērā ki ahau. Kia ora.
Ka pai. Ko te mea nui ko te manaaki. Nō reira, ahakoa ko wai, ahakoa i hea ko te mea nui ko te manaaki i te tangata. Ō manaakitanga, mehemea he kai, pai tērā, mehemea he awhi, he āki haere i te whānau, kei te pai anō tēnā. Engari ko te mea nui kia kaha ki te manaaki i te tangata. Koirā tētahi o ngā āhuatanga taketake ki ōku whakaaro, arā te tiaki i te tangata, te whakarite kia pai te tiaki i ō manuhiri, te whakarite e pai ana te tiaki i tō whānau hoki, me te whakarite anō kua rite katoa ngā āhuatanga kia hāneanea ai tā rātou noho ā, ka taea e rātou te hoki atu me te kī anō, Pai tērā manaaki i a mātou. Āe, he āhua rite te manaakitanga ki te wairuatanga. Ka ahu mai i te whatumanawa nē? Nō roto tonu i a koe. Ka rongo tonu te ngākau mēnā kei te hiahiatia koe i roto i te rūma.
Ina whakaaro au mō te manaakitanga i roto i te horopaki o te kura, ko tāna, he wero i ngā kaiako kia whai whakaaro ki te whakaako i te katoa o te āhua o te ākonga. Kua kore e whakaako noa mai i te kakī piki whakarunga, otirā he pērā i mua. I whai whakaaro mātou ki te marautanga, ā, ko te hinengaro anake e whakahohetia ana. Engari ko tā mātou e kī ana ināianei, he aha te katoatanga o te tamaiti e tū ana i mua i taku aroaro? Me pēhea taku whakatutuki i aua matea e rite ai rātou ki te whakauru ki ngā mahi ako?