Tātou Tātou – Success for all: Improving Māori student success

Project Description

Tātou Tātou investigated Māori student success in degree-level tertiary education. Using the Critical Incidence Technique, key factors that helped or hindered learner success were identified across 3 non-lecture  contexts: Māori student support services, undergraduate programmes, and Māori student whanaungatanga (peer relationships).

A Quality Tertiary Teaching Profile (QTTe) was developed that provides specific instructions for institutions wishing to better support Māori learners' success. The QTTe includes:

• using effective teaching and learning practices
• providing academic support that is culturally appropriate
• providing pastoral support that is culturally appropriate
• providing a culturally safe learning environment
• encouraging cohort cohesiveness.

Tātou Tātou identifies the need for institutional changes within the context of the broader tertiary environment, at the level of the educator and the learner.

This project was launched at Tuia te Ako 2012.

Target Audience

The project focuses on health settings, but the findings and recommendations are broadly applicable across the tertiary environment, inlcuding:

• practitioners working with Māori learners
• support services
• health educators.

Project Team

• Dr Elana Curtis (Project Leader), The University of Auckland
• Dr Mark Barrow, The University of Auckland
• Dr Airini, The University of Auckland
• Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid, University of Auckland

Project Funding

$111,921 GST exc

Project Outputs

	Presentation given at the 2011 Ako Aotearoa Research in Progress Colloquium
	Presentation about the project at the Ako Aotearoa Research in Progress Colloquium 2010

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