Tiritiria: understanding māori children as inherently and inherited-ly literate—towards a conceptual position

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    The authors seek to challenge the dominant notion of literacy as it is widely understood in New Zealand English-medium schooling contexts, and to understand how literacies manifest in the early years of primary education for Māori children. Māori views of knowledge and knowledge systems have been met with forms of gatekeeping by the western academy that have excluded, othered, and cherry-picked Māori knowledge according to the norms, values, and western perspectives of usefulness. Reframing literacies and literacy practices Literacy can be understood as a vehicle or tool, encompassing the . . .

     

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