Restor(y)ing Maui: Trickstering Time and Making Space for Other Worlds
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https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29742Keywords:
Political ontology, Pasifika education, Indigenous educations, arts educationAbstract
Alejandra Jaramillo-Aristizabal and Michelle Johansson’s comprehensive dialogue addresses central issues, ranging, for example only: from (i) contrasting the colonial version of New Zealand’s ‘discovery’, (usually taught in schools), with the Maori version in which Maui, (the Ingenious trickster), created Aotearoa. To (ii) suggesting that the quest for social justice unintentionally reinforces the status quo; to (iii) summarizing ways in which working Polynesian school age students explore how to enact possibilities of a different world; through to (iv) explaining the benefits of conducting research embedded in Indigenous perspectives in which relations, relationships, community and critical humbleness are significant.
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