From projects to policy

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From projects to policy

• New Zealand Maori who are we?
• What do we want?
• How do we get it?
• Project example
• Lessons

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New Zealand Maori

• Indigenous of NZ
• Population 4 million
• Maori 15 approx. 600,000
• 14 in classrooms in next generation
• Education is free and compulsory to 16yrs
• 2 options integrated mainstream and/or Maori
  immersion

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What do we want?

• And/And policies
• Maori and a NZer
• mainstream education and traditional learning
• Maori and English
• Standard of living and live our chosen lives
• Choice

• Either/or policies
• Price of (mainstream) citizenship too high
• Change identity
• Cost of (mainstream) citizenship too high
• Division
• Disaffection
• Conflict

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How do we get it?

• Demand
• Parental pressure
• Student pressure
• Community pressure
• Pilot projects
• Policy advocacy
• Political lobbying

• Supply
• Governmental responses
• People, policies, processes
• Institutions
• Private sector

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Project example

• Schools change management project
• 21 schools 2/3 failing
• Rural, isolated, poor, Maori
• Governance untrained and unmotivated
• Professional leadership peremptory and
  pre-emptive

• Teacher quality indifferent and old
• Parental engagement sporadic and low
• Literacy and numeracy below average
• Cultural fluency marginal in both
• Institution rather than learner focused

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What we did / What we did not do

• Government and Tribal partnership
• Cultural conceptual framework
• Community development and capacity building
  approach
• Baseline research

• Take away responsibility
• Interfere in community decision-making
• Take sides
• Pre-determine answers

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Lessons

• Establish a good relationship
• Proficiency models
• Agree a shared outcome
• Pursue quality
• Design for what might be (not what is)
• Stay focused on the learner
• Dont assume trade-offs are necessary
• Agree what success will look like
• Develop portable models
• Information, information, information
• Maintain cultural integrity