Grow Waitaha Kahui Ako Leadership Cluster

 Provocation: Becoming an ally, Positionality, Praxis & Partnership

    - Holly Bodman (Kōia te Mātauraka Curriculum Facilitator)

• Decolonising the curriculum.
• Working to design UKD resources 

Workshop aims

Positioning

Tauiwi Pakeha - 24 November 1874 - Ancestors arrived and settled in Karamea.

- Through positionality, it can be possible to alienate those who are not in the same position. Unconscious bias can also impact this.

"Name your bias' and work. towards centring them."

- Episode 2: Inheriting privilege: Land of the Long White Cloud video

- Privelege... of being surrounded by people like you. Books being filled with people like you. What does this mean for our immigrant families? How can we encourage them to strengthen their stories? What can we learn from the past, to enhance their future?

Holly's positionality statement:

My name is Holly Bodman, and I am fifth-generation taiwi Pakeha. My ancestors are from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. I'm privileged through their acquisition of Kãi Tahu land in Murihiku (Southland), and through systems that benefit Päkehä like me. I was born in central Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland) and raised on land which Ngäti Whätua gifted the Crown in 1840. I was raised within a middle-class, progressive, Päkehã culture and found my way to teaching through my success at school and a passion to make a difference. As a kaiako, I learned that only through understanding my identity, could

I transform my teaching practice and influence educational change. My work to honour matauraka Mãori and Mãori histories in my teaching practice led me to Köia te Matauraka. I now work alongside mana whenua to develop social studies curriculum resources which interweave hap purakau and histories into units of learning for years 0-13.

• ASSEN

Link to Report