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Associate Professor Pania Te Maro BA, PGDip, PhDEd

Associate Professor

Doctoral Supervisor
Institute of Education

Associate Director Maori

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

My teaching career began in 1992 in a bilingual class, and carried on to teaching in rūmaki units, kōhanga reo, kura and wharekura. My tertiary teaching career began at Victoria University where I spent eight years mainly focusing on maths education and education for Māori. I moved to Massey University after spending six and a half years lecturing in teacher education at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, some masters classes, and some adult numeracy and te reo Māori teaching for bridging-to-nursing students. My main focus at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi was teaching Pāngarau/maths and integration of curriculum area teaching and learning that centralises kaupapa and mātauranga Māori.  
My PhD explored the relationships that kura communities have with mathematics education with a view to ensuring that kura have emancipated decision-making power to determine how kaupapa and mātauranga Māori are equitably privileged with kaupapa and mātauranga mathematics.

Ko Hikurangi te Maunga, Ko Waiapu te Awa, Ko Ngāti Porou te Iwi, Ko te Whānau a Pōkai te Hapū, Ko Te Kapa o Hinekōpeka te Tūrangawaewae, Ko Pōkai te Marae, Ko Pōhatu te Wharekai. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā rā tātou katoa.

My main accomplishments to-date are my five children and (so far) eight mokopuna.

I am a senior lecturer/researcher in education with a main focus on mathematics education in relation to kaupapa and mātauranga Māori in kura. 

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Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: 84459
    Location: 4.08, Collinson Village
    Campus: Tiritea

Qualifications

  • Bachelor - University of Canterbury (2002)
  • Postgraduate diploma - Victoria University (2013)
  • doctor of Philosophy - Education - Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi (2019)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Critical mathematics for indigenous cultures

Leadership in Māori education

Literacy and numeracy for adult learners

Kaupapa and mātauranga Māori for education

Critique of curriculum and governing bodies

Critique of assessment and disciplining, judging and governing bodies

Research Opportunities

  • Ubiquitous app for adult numeracy learners  (28/02/2019) An app will be developed and tested collaboratively with adult students to ensure that a sustainable numeracy learning model and tool are developed.
  • Equitable privileging of kaupapa and mātauranga Māori with kaupapa and mātauranga maths  (04/06/2019) Seeing how kura ākonga recognise and focus on the Māori in a topic alongside recognising and focusing on the mathematics.

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Curriculum and Pedagogy (130200): Education (130000): Education Assessment and Evaluation (130303): Education Systems (130100): Ethnic Education (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Maori and Pacific Peoples) (130307): Kura Kaupapa Maori (Maori Primary Education) (130104): Maori Education (excl. Early Childhood and Primary Education) (130310): Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy (130208): Specialist Studies in Education (130300): Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators (130313): Technical, Further and Workplace Education (130108)

Keywords

Teaching and learning of mathematics and maths education for Māori immersion schools. 

Mātauranga and kaupapa Māori in relation to Māori education.

Critical mathematics.

Adult literacy and numeracy.

Research Outputs

Book

Vilanova Miranda De Oliveira, G., Te Maro, P., & Tweed, B. (2023). He waka eke noa: Indigenising initial and teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. In P. Singh, D. Heck, S. Heimans, & A. Ambrosetti (Eds.) Beyond Southern Theory and Teacher Education.. : Springer/ATEA
[Chapter]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.

Thesis

Te Maro, P. (2018). Mai i ngā rā o Mua. Dialectical and knowledge-power relations in the interactions of kura and maths education. A thesis submitted to Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Māori Studies Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi School of Indigenous Graduate Studies. (Doctoral Thesis, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi School of Indigenous Graduate Studies) Te, MP. (2018). Mai i ngā rā o Mua. Dialectical and knowledge-power relations in the interactions of kura and maths education. A thesis submitted to Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Māori Studies Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi School of Indigenous Graduate Studies. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Te Maro, P.
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Conference

Tweed, B., & Te Maro, P. (2019, September). Keynote address: Embracing Ako. Presented at Mathematics and Statistics Education Research Symposium
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.
Tweed, B., & Te Maro, P.Quantitative Methods in Indigenous Educational Contexts: Using Legitimation Code Theory in the interfaces between quantitative, qualitative and kaupapa Māori research..
[Conference Other]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.

Other

Tweed, B., & Te Maro, P. (2020). Coronavirus and education: what the lockdown taught us.
[Internet publication]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.

Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • Māori
    Last used: Today
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent

Teaching and Supervision

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 4 0
Co-supervisor 3 1

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Donna Guy - Doctor of Philosophy
    Waka Tētē - A transformational teaching pedagogy for social work students
  • Joyce Manahi - Doctor of Philosophy
    Indigenous komiri practices in support of whanau wellbeing
  • Mel Donaldson-Kira - Doctor of Philosophy
    How do current counselling and other care practices within Aotearoa New Zealand support rangatahi whai ora?
  • Danielle Hodson - Doctor of Philosophy
    Brown skin, white mask: How do colonised wāhine Māori authorise autonomous identities within white, academia?

Co-supervisor of:

  • Keita Durie - Doctor of Philosophy
    MANUKURA: A Māori Model of Education
  • Nicole Mincher - Doctor of Philosophy
    Understanding and Re-imagining Disciplinary Processes in NZ Schools
  • Jeanette Hastie - Doctor of Philosophy
    Māori women’s perspective of mothering a loved one who has Autism (tōnā anō Takiwātanga)

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2024 - Alishia Moeahu - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Application of Pūrākau as Providing Positive Learning Outcomes in Kura Kaupapa Māori