I'm so looking forward to the WIPCE World Indigenous Peoples Conference of Education for 2025 that's taking place in Auckland next year.
It has one of my fave academics who will be one of the keynote guest speakers whom I've been following over the years regarding indigenous education and research.
Her name is: Prof. Linda Tuhiwai Smith and she has received awards for her groundbreaking work on Indigenous research and has made a lot of positive in our indigenous communities and western university institutes.
She's challenged research paradigms and has been pivotal as one of many pioneers of encouraging Māori language medium schools to thrive throughout New Zealand as prior to the year 2000 there were few and far between indigenous Māori schools in the nation.
Now there are many throughout the nation and that's so encouraging for the Māori language to continue to grow. It also encourages 'Indigenous Research' to take place as a very different way of finding out new information...
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