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- Title
Enabling School Engagement for Māori Families in New Zealand.
- Authors
Hall, Neresa; Hornby, Garry; Macfarlane, Sonja
- Abstract
The aim of this research was to explore the mechanisms involved for engaging Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) families in their child's education. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five Māori parents of year nine and ten students (aged between 12 and 14 years) from two suburban high schools in New Zealand. The research was framed within an indigenous qualitative methodology and employed interpretative phenomenological analysis from which four superordinate themes emerged. These themes closely align with concepts that underpin a Māori worldview (Ritchie in Becoming bicultural. Huia Publications, Wellington, NZ, 1992) and Macfarlane's educultural wheel (Kia hiwa ra! Listen to culture-Māori students' plea to educators. NZCER, Wellington, NZ, 2004). They have the potential to inform school policy, facilitate engagement with indigenous families, and foster Māori student achievement.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; EDUCATION of Maori people; PARENT participation in secondary education; FAMILIES; EDUCATION of indigenous peoples; ACADEMIC achievement; MAORI children; EDUCATION; CONCEPTUAL structures; HIGH school students; INTERVIEWING; MAORI (New Zealand people); PHENOMENOLOGY; RESEARCH methodology; PARENTING; SCHOOL administration; QUALITATIVE research; JUDGMENT sampling; FAMILY relations; THEMATIC analysis
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 10, p3038
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10826-014-0107-1