Religious Education PD2: Matauranga Māori/ Māori World View

Matauranga Māori

Māori knowledge/Māori world view - “How Māori perceive the world”

Matauranga Maori intrinsic identity that makes up Maori Culture. It is inclusive.

Taha Maori - It usually only pertained to Maori students (A Maori side or element) 


Indigenous knowledge VS Scientific knowledge

THEMES

Indigenous knowledge

Scientific knowledge

Oral & Visual

  • Purakau
  • Karakia
  • Marae carvings
  • Raranga 
  • Pepeha
  • Waiata

Written

Recorded - accuracy and evidence

however, one sided


Sacred & Secular together

Having the means and acknowledging where and who it was from.
Wood from trees, ritual and karakia to/ for Tane

Secular only

Just the means. Wood from trees.

Teaching through storytelling

  • Taking the learner on a journey
  • acknowledging all who played a part 

Didactic

To tell

Integrated

it takes a village to raise a child

Analytical

Nature vs Nurture

Holistic

Big Picture

Reductionist

Individual parts

Subjective

Specific to the person saying it “It’s very cold outside”

Objective

Something verified by a third person; independent of feelings, thought or bias, “The forecast says the temperature outside is 7 degrees”

Experiential

learning through reflection

Positivist

one defined reality, fixed, measurable, and observable

Learning by doing

  • Hands-on

Learning by lecture

  • Learning by listening and knowing

Intuitive

“How do you know that” “I just know”

Hypothesis based

Verified with evidence

Assumed to be the truth

World started with the separation of Ranginui and Papatuanuku - Believe it to be true

Assumed to be the best approximation

How the Earth began from dated rocks - Truth is relative


Ko Nga Kete o te Matauranga

Tane obtained baskets from traveling through 12 realms 

  • knowledge is meant to be shared not kept to oneself

  • We are custodians of knowledge

  • Take what you need

  • Make knowledge accessible IF YOU TAKE IT IS UP TO YOU!


Te Kete Tua-uri (Ritual knowledge) *Privy to some

“Beyond our understanding”

  • Memory (prior knowledge), prayer

  • Patterns of energy

  • Tohunga


Te Kete Tuatuea (Eternal knowledge) *Privy to some

“Eternal knowledge”

  • Realities of our world, laws of nature, laws of gravity (earthquakes give us new land) Earth regenerates itself

  • Affirmation of others

  • Exists


Te Kete Aronui (Secular knowledge) *Privy to all

  • Reading, writing, doing

  • “Use frozen butter for scones”

  • Secular means everywhere and everyone

  • Skills, talents, qualities


Te Reo Māori

Language is the vehicle of all knowledge/culture

Macrons are important - writing and pronunciation of kupu are paramount. Misuse macrons and it can alter the meaning of the kupu/ phrase.

“every word has a whakapapa”


Tikanga Māori

Tika - right/ correct; Nga - verb = Tikanga: to do what is right

It is driven by two main concepts - tapu and mana. If something is something, then it is tapu.

Mana is tapu in action. Knowing that we are loved, gives us the freedom to love others.

We call this mana. We judge something to be right because it positively acknowledges tapu

and manu. 

Tapu and Noa - complement each other.

Tikanga - what we do; Kawa - how we do it

Head is sacred - no sitting on pillows, no touching heads. No sitting on tables, we don't sit on what we eat off.


Mana is tapu in action.


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