Aroha
Working with love for people and community
Pono
Acting with honesty and integrity
Te Tapu o Te Tangata
Respecting the sacredness of people
Tika
Doing what is right and aligned with tikanga
Research values
Our study required a high degree of sensitivity, engaging with a complex and challenging research topic. We enacted our values in our engagements and interactions with one another, with our communities, and in the presentation of our research findings.
Whanaungatanga
Creating, participating, and flourishing in the context of vitalising relationships
Whakapapa
Acknowledging and connecting to ukaipō as a source of wisdom & insight
Manaakitanga
Supporting Māori to know their intrinsic mana as their birthright
Tikanga
Upholding established processes and practices developed with wisdom
Te Reo Māori
Committing to the revitalisation of te reo Māori
Mātauranga
Honouring the wisdom of koroua & kuia, hau kainga, and papakainga as a wellspring of mātauranga
Education as a practice of freedom
Developing literature, resources & teaching through deep community engagement & theoretical acumen Teaching, mentoring, and sharing from a place of aroha Cultivating and writing mātauranga Māori from a place of aroha for Māori people, culture, and worldviews Engaging critical inquiry into the social formations of lives shaped by colonialism, and vectors of intersectional marginality Writing as a practice of artistic expression, informed by wairua, and connected to emotion, memory, and future vision Surfacing the deep reverberations of our ancestors, atua, and bringing to light the disavowed complexities of our lived experiences Targeting interventions & precise critique/feedback to institutional contexts such as higher education & government
Rangatiratanga
Surfacing contemporary Māori needs, concerns and issues brought by whānau, hapū, iwi, community, in shaping research questions Igniting Māori agency & capacity to create social change Being led by Māori who serve our people in community or who hold insights derived through lived experience Being confident to respectfully disagree, challenge, or redirect energies when our dignity is not upheld