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The ideas presented in this chapter have arisen through dialogue between an outdoor educator (Mike) and a colleague whose specialist area is teaching and learning embedded within a Māori worldview (Sharyn). As educators in Aotearoa New Zealand (where both English and Māori are official languages) we strive to honour the principles laid out in the nation’s founding document (Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi) that binds the Crown with the indigenous people of this land.
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Brown, M., Heaton, S. (2015). Ko Ahau Te Awa Ko Te Awa Ko Ahau – I Am the River, and the River is me. In: Robertson, M., Lawrence, R., Heath, G. (eds) Experiencing the Outdoors. Researching Environmental Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-944-9_5
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