I now have some 26 students enrolled in the Certificate in Indigenous Research, a fees free 36 week course with boxes of resources needed to be given out. The neat thing is being able to explore and share ideas, thoughts and experiences in a safe environment. The 8 modules that we'll be covering includes the following topics:
- Intro to Maori Issues in Research
- Intro to Indigenous Issues in Research
- Research Responsibility
- Western Research Practice
- Identifying the Research Question
- Knowledge Banks
- Research Outcomes
- The Research Journey.
Really looking forward to this time next week as the planning for the lessons is over 3 day sessions with so much to cover in so short/long a time. I feel really privileged to be in this space and thank God for this opportunity to be able to share and learn with students at the same time.
The style of teaching will be very different from the ways that I was taught back as an undergraduate at Auckland University back in the 80s with huge classes of hundreds of students in a big lecture theatre (first year Geography) with a lecturer usually reading out notes for an hour whilst I hurriedly scribbled out notes echoing what was said.
No, my classes will be very different in a small class with lots of discussion, more personal, holistic and taking into consideration the backgrounds of Maori, Pasifika and other ethnicities. For some students they have already expressed an interest in learning about researching their whakapapa (family genealogy), others it's to pathway into degree programmes (for which I've been supporting the last few years) and for others it's about pathwaying into the Masters programme i.e. Masters in Applied Indigenous Knowledge (levels 8 - 9) for which I am supervising 2 students.
So looking forward to this new journey and no doubt will be sharing some highlights along the way...
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