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    Titiro whakamuri, hoki whakamua: Respectful integration of Māori perspectives within early childhood environmental education

    Ritchie, Jenny

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    2013
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    Ritchie, J. (2013). Titiro whakamuri, hoki whakamua: Respectful integration of Māori perspectives within early childhood environmental education. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education. 17 : 62-79
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    https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2611
    Abstract
    The early years are a foundational time for the establishment of dispositions for learning. This paper draws on a recent study in Aotearoa (New Zealand) to illustrate ways educators have been implementing programs, within mainstream early childhood care and education settings, that inclusively offer Māori perspectives on caring for ourselves, others, and the environment. It argues that Indigenous perspectives provide a valid counter-narrative to the dominant Western techno- industrial emphasis that continues to damage our planet. Early childhood care and education settings are ideally situated in their capacity to provide opportunities for children, families, and communities to experience ecologically sustainable practices that are appropriately informed by local Indigenous knowledges. In the study reported here, teachers incorporated Māori cosmological narratives and local legends and applied Māori values in practical ways that demonstrated and modelled caring, sustainable ecological practices.
    Ngā Upoko Tukutuku (Māori Subject Headings):
    Tikanga tuku iho
    Keywords:
    indigenous perspectives, early childhood care and education, counter colonialism, counter-narrative, Aotearoa, Māori worldview, New Zealand
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    050203 Environmental Education and Extension, 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Māori), 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education
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    Yukon College
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