A Mātauranga Māori Perspective of Literacy for Adult Learners

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A Mātauranga Māori Perspective of Literacy for Adult Learners

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Globally, literacy can be conceived of in different ways. Two perspectives that have influenced adult literacy policy internationally are the economic functionalist and the sociocultural. In Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori educators have repeatedly advanced a mātauranga Māori perspective of literacy. This perspective has parallels with the embodied, practice-based multiliteracies and sociomateriality of the sociocultural perspective but less so with the dominant functionalist perspective. To addr...

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2023-10-23

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Furness, Jane Amanda / Rua, Mohi / Masters-Awatere, Bridgette / Piercy-Cameron, Gemma / Cochrane, William / Heaton, Sharyn

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16091

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