Kuputaka - Glossary
Ako
Effective teaching and learning for, and with, Māori Learners and the conditions that support it.
Ako Aotearoa
Champions of Excellence in tertiary teaching and learning excellence in New Zealand
Ako Panuku
A Ministry of Education professional development programme for Māori teachers in year 7-13.
Ākonga
Learner or student.
Hangarau
Technology.
Harakeke
Flax.
He Pitopito Kōrero
Title of a Ministry of Education school bulletin for school leaders.
Hei Toko I te Tukunga
A set of sector-specific good practise exemplars, developed by Ako Aotearoa, which highlight how to embed kaupapa Māori principles into the learning environment.
Hononga
We partner for success
Hui Taumata Mātauranga
Māori education summit.
Iwi
Extended kinship group or tribe or people. Often refers to a large group of people descended from a common ancestor and associated with a distinct territory.
Iwitanga
Cultural practices, values and views specific to a particular iwi.
Kaiako
Teacher.
Kaumātua
An elder.
Kaupapa Māori
Initiatives, elements, or ideas, that reflect a Māori world view.
Kaupapa Māori education
Māori education that incorporates a Māori world view and ways of teaching in a range of settings including bilingual and immersion settings (English and Māori).
Kōhanga Reo
Māori education that incorporates a Māori world view and ways of teaching in a range of settings including bilingual and immersion settings (English and Māori).
Kore utu
Fees free
Kotahitanga
We work as one
Kura
School.
Kura kaupapa Māori
Māori language school settings based on Māori philosophies.
Mahi Ngātahi
Build effective partnerships
Mahi Tahi
Work together.
Mana
Dignity, prestige, honour.
Mana whenua
Self identity and a sense of belonging to a particular place and time. Mana whenua is based on the principle of ahikaa (occupation over designated territory) and refers to the customary authority exercised by the tangata whenua in an identified area.
Mātauranga
Knowledge.
Mātauranga Māori
Māori knowledge in its widest and broadest terms and includes all aspects of Māori culture.
Ngā Kete
Ngā Kete is a secure web portal or “doorway” into our information. It gives us and TEOs quick access to information from multiple sources though search and browse functionality.
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
The Māori Centre for Research Excellence.
Ngaiotanga
We learn and innovate
Pūtaiao
Science.
Rangahau
Research. Can be applied to research specifically about issues of interest to and for Māori.
Rangatahi
Māori youth.
Raranga
Weaving.
Rauemi
Resources.
Tauira
Learner/Student.
Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua
Tertiary Education Commission
Te Ao Hurihuri
The ever-changing contemporary world. References the need to be able to enjoy tertiary success, good health and a high quality of life.
Te Ao Māori
The Māori world (society, culture, language, tikanga) and references being able to participate and contribute to whānau, hapū and iwi.
Te Kāhui Amokura
A group established to advance and promote the collective interests of New Zealand's universities to improve outcomes for Māori university students, Māori university staff, and Māori scholarship
Te kete mātauranga
A basket of knowledge
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
The curriculum framework applied in Māori medium settings.
Te reo Māori
The Māori language
Te Reo Rangatira
Title referring to a set of standards designed to support students in Māori immersion settings.
Te Tauihu o Ngā Wānanga
A collective national association comprised of representatives from the three wānanga: Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, and Te Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.
Tīkanga-ā-Iwi
Can mean iwi practices or social studies (in Te Marautanga o Aotearoa).
Tū Māia e Te Ākonga
The Māori learner who stands proud, able, and confident. Tū Māia is the name for our strategic implementation framework to support our TEC Story.
Umanga
Business, industry.
Wānanga
New Zealand’s three wānanga provide quality education using Māori ways of teaching and learning; contributing towards the survival and well-being of Māori as a people. Wānanga also have a continuing role to play in re-engaging learners into education.
Whaia te iti Kahurangi
We aim high
Whakapakari
Our internal capability
Whakatauākī
A proverb.
Whānau
Family.
Wharekura
Māori-medium secondary settings based in and on Māori education philosophies.