Published in Journal of Peace Education 2011
He Tatau Pounamu. Considerations for an early childhood peace curriculum focusing on criticality, indigeneity and an ethic of care, in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Citation. Jenny Ritchie, Colleen Lockie & Cheryl Rau (2011): He Tatau Pounamu. Considerations for an early childhood peace curriculum focusing on criticality, indigeneity, and an ethic of care, in Aotearoa New Zealand, Journal of Peace Education, 8:3, 333-352
About the authors
Jenny Ritchie, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ
Colleen Lockie, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Cheryl Rau, Te Tari Puna Ora New Zealand Childcare Association, NZ
Topics covered
A historical context of colonisation and indigenous nonviolent resistance
Ancient, Indigenous Te Ao Māori philosophy
- Rangimārie –peace
- The ‘Ko tau rourou, ko taku rourou, ka ora te manuhiri. Ka ora tatou’
- ‘Hohou i te Rongo’
- Wairuatanga – spiritual interconnectedness
- Manaakitanga – caring for others
Alignment between critical peace education and the discursive context of early childhood care and education curriculum and assessment in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Te Whāriki, the New Zealand early childhood curriculum
- Assessment documents – Kei Tua o Te Pae and Te Whatu Pōkeka
Further contextual factors
- Resisting neoliberal recolonisation
- Intergenerational pedagogies for transformation
- Critical awareness of potentialities for peaceful dispositionality
- Reclaiming spirituality as foundational to our inter-relatedness as planetary beings
- Care as ethical practice
- Fostering dispositions of empathy and caring through a pedagogy of listening
