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Events & conferences > MYD Seminar series > Te Kotahitanga Project
Te Kotahitanga Project
Results from the Te Kotahitangi project show that students reported that having teachers who believed in them and who created a non-threatening classroom environment made them want to learn.
On 9 August 2007, the Ministry of Youth Development hosted Professor Russell Bishop, Professor and Assistant Dean of Maori
Education, University of Waikato to present on the Te
Kotahitanga Project, which he has been developing for over 15 years.
The first phase of the project began in 2001 and involved interviewing
Year 9 and 10 students and their teachers, principals and parents to
find out what was behind low levels of Maori achievement. The project
developed through the gathering of narrative accounts of students'
classroom experience.
Students reported that having teachers who
believed in them and who created a non-threatening classroom
environment made them want to learn. These teachers boosted their
academic performance. Building upon this work and the narrative
accounts of those parenting the students, their principals and their
teachers, the research team developed an Effective Teaching Profile as
the foundation of a professional development intervention. Professor
Bishop gave further details on the story of the project and the
exciting applied interventions that have been developed as a result of
the findings.
Professor Bishop also leads the Maori Educational Research Unit (MERU)
at the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research and has published
various articles and books including Culture Counts: Changing Power
Relations in Education (with Ted Glynn).
More Information
For more information on this seminar, email us at mydinfo@myd.govt.nz
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