Bicultural competence in early childhood education
A set of teaching and learning tools to build bicultural capability in the early childhood education (ECE) sector.
The resource kits will be of use to New Zealand early childhood teachers, lecturers and those in training to become early childhood educators.
Download the report:
Full report | Ngā Taonga Whakaako – Bicultural competence in early childhood education (PDF, 1.2Mb)
Resource kit for Lecturers (PDF, 4Mb)
Resource kit for graduate teachers (PDF, 3Mb)
Resource kit for student teachers (PDF, 5Mb)
Waiata booklet (PDF, 5Mb)
Poster | New Zealand Iwi map (PDF, 3Mb)
Poster | Ngā Tikanga o te Marae | Marae protocols (PDF, 3Mb)
Background:
These resources were completed in 2012 by Ngaroma Williams with Mary-Elizabeth Broadley and Keri Lawson-Te Aho.
The project aimed to better understand bicultural competency in early childhood education within New Zealand and to gauge how Māori and non Māori educators perceived the level of bicultural competency within the early childhood education sector.
Additional sets of cultural capability resources were produced by Dr Ngaroma M. Williams et al. to support Kaiako in strengthening their te reo Māori teaching and learning repertoires.
An updated Ngā Taonga Whakaako Tikanga Māori | Theory and Practice (2025), the Ki te hoe | Indigenising Spaces – Preparing teaching spaces in using and teaching te reo Māori (2024) , and Ki Te Hoe: Indigenising Practice (2023) resource sets are available from the University of Canterbury website.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund.