Te Whare Matihiko o te Reo

Te Reo me Ngā Tikanga Māori

Te Reo

Year Project Commenced :

2016

Te Ipukarea - Auckland University of Technology

The project aims to contribute to the intellectual infrastructure of the discipline of te reo Māori revitalisation by collating oral, visual digital and written sources, including a dictionary, thesaurus and repositories of waiata, haka, and narrative recordings.

The project will answer the following research questions:

How can mātauranga and tikanga Māori be more easily accessed and applied in contemporary (online) mediums to enhance Māori language learning and teaching and opportunities for Māori communities today?
What effect and impact does the provision of online resources in and about te reo Māori have on language users and learners and the accessing and application of mātauranga and tikanga Māori?

The Te Whare Matihiko o te Reo project will create an online te reo Māori digital portal (Tomokanga Rauemi Reo Māori (TRRM)) comprising a vast range of te reo Māori and mātauranga created through documentary research, wānanga and interviews.

This will include: all publications in te reo Māori, resources, radio stations, television programmes, community and iwi initiatives such as Māori language groups, websites, and social media; five programmes of 13 episodes each, to broadcasting standard, that have been based on a gaps analysis of data already available; a collection of waiata and haka that have not been published including lyrics with a detailed explanation of the lyrics, a biography of the composer, audio and video files.

The construction of TRRM will be informed by research already undertaken, our own research, user requirements and best practice to provide a user-friendly and effective environment of accessible Māori language and mātauranga.

The project will deliver five interrelated digital components:

A main portal and advanced search engine;
A unpublished collection of waiata and haka;
A Māori thesaurus (He Punakupu Taurite);
A digital dictionary and app for He Pātaka Kupu (pending approval from Te Taura Whiri)
Pending further funding in Years 4 and 5, two series of 13 episodes each of interviews in Māori with native speakers to expand the He Pātaka Mātauranga Series.

Objectives of the Research

To understand how technology and new media can be utilised to revitalise and enable the teaching and learning of endangered and minoritised languages.
Source and prepare appropriate sources of te reo Māori media for inclusion in the online portal.
Create an online digital te reo Māori language portal.

INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2018

13-16 November 2018 - Tāmaki Makaurau - Auckland, Aotearoa - New Zealand

"INDIGENOUS FUTURES"

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Te Hononga Pūkenga - ‘the connection of experts’, was created by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga to make Māori and Indigenous research expertise, location and contact information readily available, in response to the need for stronger engagement between Māori Researchers and Government, the wider public/private sector and to facilitate our communities to access us as Māori & Indigenous researchers. Visit site.

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Sir Tīpene O'Regan chaired his final Board meeting of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) last week. After 12 years of leading the Board and guiding NPM, Sir Tīpene will conclude his tenure at year end.

Sir Tīpene arrived at NPM in August 2006 having led the Ngāi Tahu Waitangi Tribunal and Treaty settlement claims process. He was an architect of the Treaty Fisheries Settlements, had been founding chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana, Assistant Vice Chancellor Māori at the University of Canterbury and a long serving Chair of the Ngāi Tahu Māori Trust Board.

2018 International Indigenous Research Conference

On Friday 16th November, we farewelled 100s of delegates who had gathered for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga's 8 continuous days of Indigenous celebration and research excellence of our 8th Biennial International Indigenous Research Conference.

Indigenous students, community and tertiary researchers and policy makers from around the world connected in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland once again, for focused knowledge sharing on the potential of our Indigenous futures.

Recognition for a lifetimes work

Amongst twenty new Fellows and three Honorary Fellows recently elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for their distinction in research and advancement of science, technology and the humanities were NPM Co-Director Professor Waimarie Nikora and Principal Investigator Professor Angus Macfarlane.

Professor Angus Macfarlane (University of Canterbury)

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The successful 2018 Marsden Fund recipients have been announced from across the country and this year the list includes many past and present NPM researchers working as Principal Investigators and Associate Investigators on a number of new, engaging and exciting projects.

The Marsden Fund grants support New Zealand’s best investigator-initiated research in the areas of science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanities and it is important that research borne out of matauranga Māori has been recognised and celebrated this year.

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Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has announced a comprehensive suite of nine new research platforms, which are contributing to an enhanced research focus for NPM and designed to deliver innovation in areas of significant research challenge for Aotearoa New Zealand.

Working collaboratively across our 21 institutional partners and coordinating with a wide group of researchers, NPM has developed these platforms to further empower and drive Māori communities towards greater economic, cultural, social and environmental well-being.

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