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Culture Speaks: Cultural Relationships and Classroom Learning
Author(s): Russell Bishop (Author), Mere Berryman (Author)
- Publisher: Huia Publishers
- Publication Date: 31 Jan. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 202 pages
- ISBN-10: 1869692799
- ISBN-13: 9781869692797
Book Description
This book focuses on what it is like to be a young M?ori person in a New Zealand secondary school classroom today. It presents and discusses narratives drawn from the voices of M?ori secondary students, their whânau, principals, and teachers.
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About the Author
Russell Bishop is Professor of Maori Education at Waikato University. He has studied the implications of Maori people’s understandings of self-determination in research and schools for fifteen years, and his work has became the basis for a nationwide research and professional development project for teachers. Mere Berryman is currently the Director of the Ministry of Education (Special Education) Poutama Pounamu Education Research and Development Centre.
