The juxtaposition of Māori words with English concepts. ‘Hauora, Well-being’ as philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8858565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharyn Heaton (0000-0003-4995-350X, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 460-468 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2016.1167583 |
| OpenAlex | W2411590912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 7 |
Within the New Zealand curriculum, hauora has been co-opted as an underlying and interdependent concept at the heart of the learning area of health and physical education. Hauora is identified as a Māori philosophy of well-being, advocating a Māori world view of hauora. Contemporary understandings of hauora as a Māori philosophy of health are constructed within dominant English-medium curriculum discourses. At first glance the juxtaposition of ‘hauora’ with ‘well-being’, and hauora being defined as ‘a Māori philosophy of health’ seems like an opportunity to promote an indigenous perspective of health into English-medium curriculum, but the philosophical questions of what knowledge is valued, why we should teach it, and its worth of what is taught for human well-being, remain fraught. The notion of hauora is much richer than the word ‘health’ allows. I explore some issues associated with the equivalence between hauora and health, and some of the potential nuances of hauora in light of a counter-colonial Māori philosophy of holism. I invite the reader to consider the terms ‘whakapapa’ and ‘wairua’ in light of a proposed metaphysics. I show that the terms—and the objects they point to—share a relationship with each other and that recognition of that interdependence are necessary to their well-being
Curriculum · Epistemology · Higher education · Holism · Indigenous · Interdependence · Metaphysics · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Physical Education and Pedagogy
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| Citations per year | 1.4 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |