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Kapa Haka Transforms Lives Through Arts-Based Service Learning: Developing a Sense of Community Ownership in Service Learning Projects: A Māori Perspective

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Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning

Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education ((LAAE,volume 18))

Abstract

Kapa haka (Māori Performing Arts) has always been an integral part of Māori society that dates back to Hawaiki (Hawaiki: the ancestral homeland of the Māori people before migrating across the Pacific Ocean and discovering Aotearoa/New Zealand.), pre and post colonization Kapa haka is still practiced today in contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand. The art of kapa haka provided the means to nurture identity, self-worth, confidence and pride in being Māori transcending to the world at large. More so, kapa haka became a certain life style and the importance of ‘equilibrium in one’s life’, especially from a Māori perspective, the importance of being educated in both Māori and Western epistemologies and incorporating a spiritual (terrestrial and celestial) life to survive and fully engage in te ao hurihuri (the ever-changing world).

This chapter provides a discussion on arts-based service learning from a Māori perspective and focuses on a rationale for combining service learning with arts education focusing on the Māori Performing Arts curriculum, how do you do it and the valued outcomes by studying a local arts-based learning organization, Kapa Kuru Pounamu Incorporated. Furthermore, this chapter will discuss important aspects of Māori knowledge transmission via arts-based service learning that have a spiritual, cultural, social, political, economical and educational impact on the Māori and community at large within contemporary New Zealand.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Hawaiki: the ancestral homeland of the Māori people before migrating across the PacificOcean and discovering Aotearoa, New Zealand.

  2. 2.

    The New Zealand Curriculum: Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (Māori equivalent) is to set the direction for student learning and to provide guidance for schools as they design andreview their curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007: p. 6).

  3. 3.

    Ngā Toi incorporates three major disciplines: ngā mahi a te rēhia (dance and drama), toi pūoro (music) and toi ataata (the visual arts) (Ministry of Education, 2000).

  4. 4.

    Tātaiako: cultural competencies for teachers of Māori learners as part of graduating teacher standards (Ministry of Education, 2011).

  5. 5.

    Te Matatini: the crème de la crème of Kapa Haka in New Zealand. The national Aotearoa Kapa Haka competitions represented by top regional groups throughout New Zealand.

  6. 6.

    Kīngitanga: the Māori King Movement established in 1858 to stop land sales and confiscations, unite all Māori tribes, and to retain self governance and autonomy.

  7. 7.

    Gail Simon: one of the parents of a student in Paper TEMB787-14C.

  8. 8.

    Wai Taiko: University of Waikato Taiko Drummers.

  9. 9.

    Lotimer Vaioletti: a high school student and member of Kapa Kuru Pounamu Inc.

  10. 10.

    Cheri Waititi: a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato.

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Aotearoa, New Zealand

    Te Manaaaroha Rollo

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, South Bank, Queensland, Australia

    Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

  2. Research and Graduate Studies, Curtin University, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Dawn Bennett

  3. Centre for Educational Research, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Anne Power

  4. School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, Logan, Queensland, Australia

    Naomi Sunderland

Māori Glossary

ako

to learn, to teach

Aotearoa

New Zealand

Haka

generic word for all Māori dances

hōtaka whakangahau

entertainment program with a variety of kapa haka disciplines

hōtaka whakataetae

prescribed competitive program that includes waiata tira (group song, whakaeke (stage entrance item), mōteatea (traditional chant), poi (poi dance), waiata-ā-ringa (modern action song), haka (men’s posture dance) and whakawātea (stage exit item).

Hapū

sub-tribe, clan

iwi

major tribe, people, nationality

Kapa Haka

Māori performing arts and group

kaupapa Māori

Māori subject, Māori purpose

Kīngitangathe

Māori King Movement

kōwhaiwhai

Māori painted wooden panels

mahi tahi

working together as one

Māori

Indigenous people of New Zealand

Marae

village, central meeting place of a tribe

mātauranga

knowledge, education

mātauranga Māori

Māori epistemology, Māori knowledge

noho marae

weekend live-ins on the marae

pā

tribal village, fortified village

Pākehā

European, Western epistemology

poi

small ball on a string, poi song/dance

pūrākau

story, myth, legend, story telling

rāranga

the art of weaving using flax

tāmoko

Māori tattoo or skin designs

te ao hurihuri

the evolving and ever changing world

Te Whare Wānanga

ancient place of learning, university

Te Whare Tapere

house of amusement and entertainment

tukutuku

reed woven panels with Māori designs

wahine

woman, female

waiata

traditional or contemporary Māori song

waiata-ā-ringa

modern Māori action song

Waikato

a region in the North Island of New Zealand

waka

Māori canoe

Whakairo

intricate Māori carvings

whakataukī

a proverb, an ancestral saying

whanau

immediate family, extended family

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Rollo, T.M. (2016). Kapa Haka Transforms Lives Through Arts-Based Service Learning: Developing a Sense of Community Ownership in Service Learning Projects: A Māori Perspective. In: Bartleet, BL., Bennett, D., Power, A., Sunderland, N. (eds) Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22153-3_11

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