Mere Skerrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 226923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mere Skerrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mere |
| FAMILY NAME | Skerrett |
| SIGNATURE | SKERRETT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2175-1949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Young people’s climate leadership in Aotearoa
Children and young people internationally have been demonstrating their concern about the inadequacy of adult responses to the climate crisis. These young people recognise that their wellbeing and that of the planet is imperilled by this inaction. Furthermore, schools should be taking the lead in educating and supporting children and young people with regard to climate science and climate action, as well as with their emotional wellbeing. This ar…
A critical analysis of Māori cosmologies and the tyranny of epistemic western centrism
In this article, I traverse Māori positionality informing Māori worldviews, alongside geohistorical navigational trajectories of knowledge. Drawing on ancestral travel which utilized sophisticated readings of stars, currents, winds, clouds, contexts and colours of the biodiversity to navigate, the concept of wayfinding as methodology and method is used to recentre mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge). Mātauranga Māori accumulates in the continuum o…
Te Rangatiratanga o te Reo: Sovereignty in Indigenous languages in early childhood education in Aotearoa
Te reo Māori, the Māori language is a taonga (something highly valued by Māori) that should have been protected under Article Two of the 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the treaty that gave Britain the right to settlement of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Article Two guaranteed Māori absolute chieftainship over their lands, homes, resources, and everything of value. Thirty‐five years ago the Waitangi Tribunal found te reo Māori is indeed a ‘taonga’ which the…
Te Kahukiwi o Aotearoa
(2021). Te Kahukiwi o Aotearoa. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online: Vol. 16, Special section: Imagining possible worlds with young children, families, and teachers: Sustaining indigenous languages and family pedagogies. Guest Editors: Janet S. Gaffney, Jenny Ritchie and Mere Skerrett, pp. 233-233
Imagining possible worlds with young children, families, and teachers: Sustaining indigenous languages and family pedagogies
KEYWORDS: Indigenous languagesfamily pedagogiescommunity-led initiativesearly childhood educationnarrative of possibility
Countering the dominance of a global north in early childhood education through an Indigenous lens in the global south
This article challenges the global coloniality of the doctrine of domination that re-presents itself in Aotearoa/New Zealand as an uneven ‘partnership’ between Māori (the Indigenes) and the colonizer (the British). That domination is maintained through the western positivistic one-size-fits-all ‘global north’ policies and practices in a colonial education system which is hegemonic and racist. The work of Kōhanga Reo (Indigenous language nests) in…
Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Taking as a starting point the work of Aotearoa New Zealand to provide an education system that includes curriculum, pedagogy, and language from indigenous Maori culture, this book investigates the en
Dismantling Colonial Myths
Kei tua i te awe māpara: Countercolonial Unveiling of Neoliberal Discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand
In this paper, we traverse both historical and contemporary discourses pertaining to early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand, offering a genealogical discursive analysis of assumptions of white superiority. It is proposed that such an analysis delivers a platform from which to launch a project of unmasking the recent and ongoing impact of neoliberal policies in our country. Two key documents are highlighted: the founding docume…
A New Net to Go Fishing: Messages From International Evidence-Based Research and Kaupapa Māori Research
This article draws upon a Māori metaphor to describe the theoretical framework underpinning the methodology and findings of a research project completed by researchers from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2010. It explains how and why the project required the research team to synthesise key information from four New Zealand Ministry of Education Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) reports as well as kaupapaMāori research associated with t…
Te Rangatiratanga o te Reo: Sovereignty in Indigenous languages in early childhood education in Aotearoa
Te reo Māori, the Māori language is a taonga (something highly valued by Māori) that should have been protected under Article Two of the 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the treaty that gave Britain the right to settlement of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Article Two guaranteed Māori absolute chieftainship over their lands, homes, resources, and everything of value. Thirty‐five years ago the Waitangi Tribunal found te reo Māori is indeed a ‘taonga’ which the…
A critical analysis of Māori cosmologies and the tyranny of epistemic western centrism
In this article, I traverse Māori positionality informing Māori worldviews, alongside geohistorical navigational trajectories of knowledge. Drawing on ancestral travel which utilized sophisticated readings of stars, currents, winds, clouds, contexts and colours of the biodiversity to navigate, the concept of wayfinding as methodology and method is used to recentre mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge). Mātauranga Māori accumulates in the continuum o…
Young people’s climate leadership in Aotearoa
Children and young people internationally have been demonstrating their concern about the inadequacy of adult responses to the climate crisis. These young people recognise that their wellbeing and that of the planet is imperilled by this inaction. Furthermore, schools should be taking the lead in educating and supporting children and young people with regard to climate science and climate action, as well as with their emotional wellbeing. This ar…
Countering the dominance of a global north in early childhood education through an Indigenous lens in the global south
This article challenges the global coloniality of the doctrine of domination that re-presents itself in Aotearoa/New Zealand as an uneven ‘partnership’ between Māori (the Indigenes) and the colonizer (the British). That domination is maintained through the western positivistic one-size-fits-all ‘global north’ policies and practices in a colonial education system which is hegemonic and racist. The work of Kōhanga Reo (Indigenous language nests) in…
A New Net to Go Fishing: Messages From International Evidence-Based Research and Kaupapa Māori Research
This article draws upon a Māori metaphor to describe the theoretical framework underpinning the methodology and findings of a research project completed by researchers from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2010. It explains how and why the project required the research team to synthesise key information from four New Zealand Ministry of Education Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) reports as well as kaupapaMāori research associated with t…
A New Net to Go Fishing: Messages From International Evidence-Based Research and Kaupapa Māori Research
This article draws upon a Māori metaphor to describe the theoretical framework underpinning the methodology and findings of a research project completed by researchers from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2010. It explains how and why the project required the research team to synthesise key information from four New Zealand Ministry of Education Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) reports as well as kaupapaMāori research associated with t…
Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Taking as a starting point the work of Aotearoa New Zealand to provide an education system that includes curriculum, pedagogy, and language from indigenous Maori culture, this book investigates the en
Dismantling Colonial Myths
Kei tua i te awe māpara: Countercolonial Unveiling of Neoliberal Discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand
In this paper, we traverse both historical and contemporary discourses pertaining to early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand, offering a genealogical discursive analysis of assumptions of white superiority. It is proposed that such an analysis delivers a platform from which to launch a project of unmasking the recent and ongoing impact of neoliberal policies in our country. Two key documents are highlighted: the founding docume…
Countering the dominance of a global north in early childhood education through an Indigenous lens in the global south
This article challenges the global coloniality of the doctrine of domination that re-presents itself in Aotearoa/New Zealand as an uneven ‘partnership’ between Māori (the Indigenes) and the colonizer (the British). That domination is maintained through the western positivistic one-size-fits-all ‘global north’ policies and practices in a colonial education system which is hegemonic and racist. The work of Kōhanga Reo (Indigenous language nests) in…
Te Rangatiratanga o te Reo: Sovereignty in Indigenous languages in early childhood education in Aotearoa
Te reo Māori, the Māori language is a taonga (something highly valued by Māori) that should have been protected under Article Two of the 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the treaty that gave Britain the right to settlement of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Article Two guaranteed Māori absolute chieftainship over their lands, homes, resources, and everything of value. Thirty‐five years ago the Waitangi Tribunal found te reo Māori is indeed a ‘taonga’ which the…
Te Kahukiwi o Aotearoa
(2021). Te Kahukiwi o Aotearoa. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online: Vol. 16, Special section: Imagining possible worlds with young children, families, and teachers: Sustaining indigenous languages and family pedagogies. Guest Editors: Janet S. Gaffney, Jenny Ritchie and Mere Skerrett, pp. 233-233
Imagining possible worlds with young children, families, and teachers: Sustaining indigenous languages and family pedagogies
KEYWORDS: Indigenous languagesfamily pedagogiescommunity-led initiativesearly childhood educationnarrative of possibility
A critical analysis of Māori cosmologies and the tyranny of epistemic western centrism
In this article, I traverse Māori positionality informing Māori worldviews, alongside geohistorical navigational trajectories of knowledge. Drawing on ancestral travel which utilized sophisticated readings of stars, currents, winds, clouds, contexts and colours of the biodiversity to navigate, the concept of wayfinding as methodology and method is used to recentre mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge). Mātauranga Māori accumulates in the continuum o…
Young people’s climate leadership in Aotearoa
Children and young people internationally have been demonstrating their concern about the inadequacy of adult responses to the climate crisis. These young people recognise that their wellbeing and that of the planet is imperilled by this inaction. Furthermore, schools should be taking the lead in educating and supporting children and young people with regard to climate science and climate action, as well as with their emotional wellbeing. This ar…
Sociology (9 works) · Aotearoa (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Indigenous and Place-Based Education (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works)