Hei ara ako ki te oranga: Teaching, learning and wellbeing

Project Description

The project investigates the question: what are effective literacy outcomes for Māori adult learners, and how can they be assessed? There are four objectives to the project:

• to identify the range of literacy-wellbeing outcomes experienced by Māori adult literacy learners;
• to develop measures to assess achievement of these outcomes;
• to develop a Māori adult literacy-wellbeing framework; and
• to disseminate the framework to generate support for the concept, its development and uptake.

The research will be conducted within a kaupapa Māori framework, and will use small group interviews to investigate the wellbeing outcomes experienced by Māori adult literacy learners, and how they might be best measured.

Project Team

• Dr Helen Potter (Contact Project Leader), New Zealand Council of Educational Research
• Toni Lee Hayward, Literacy Aotearoa
• Dr Jessica Hutchings, New Zealand Council of Educational Research
• Antony Philips, Literacy Aotearoa
• Katrina Taupo, New Zealand Council of Educational Research
• Bronwyn Yates, Literacy Aotearoa

Project Funding

$135,104 (excl. GST)

Key Dates

Project commenced: mid 2011

Expected project completion: late 2012.