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Associate Professor Pania Te Maro BA, PGDip, PhDEd

Associate Professor

Doctoral Supervisor
Institute of Education

My teaching career began in 1992 in a bilingual class, and carried on to teaching in rūmaki units, kōhanga reo, kura and wharekura. My tertiary teaching career began at Victoria University where I spent eight years mainly focusing on maths education and education for ǰ. I moved to ۶Ƶ after spending six and a half years lecturing in teacher education at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, some masters classes, and some adult numeracy and te reo ǰ teaching for bridging-to-nursing students. My main focus at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi was teaching Pāngarau/maths and integration of curriculum area teaching and learning that centralises kaupapa and mātauranga ǰ.  
My PhD explored the relationships that kura communities have with mathematics education with a view to ensuring that kura have emancipated decision-making power to determine how kaupapa and mātauranga ǰ are equitably privileged with kaupapa and mātauranga mathematics.

Ko Hikurangi te Maunga, Ko Waiapu te Awa, Ko Ngāti Porou te Iwi, Ko te Whānau a Pōkai te Hapū, Ko Te Kapa o Hinekōpeka te Tūrangawaewae, Ko Pōkai te Marae, Ko Pōhatu te Wharekai. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā rā tātou katoa.

My main accomplishments to-date are my five children and (so far) eight mokopuna.

I am a senior lecturer/researcher in education with a main focus on mathematics education in relation to kaupapa and mātauranga ǰ in kura. 

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Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: 84459
    Location: 4.08, Collinson Village
    Campus: Tiritea

Qualifications

  • Bachelor - University of Canterbury (2002)
  • Postgraduate diploma - Victoria University (2013)
  • doctor of Philosophy - Education - Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi (2019)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, ۶Ƶ

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Critical mathematics for indigenous cultures

Leadership in ǰ education

Literacy and numeracy for adult learners

Kaupapa and mātauranga ǰ for education

Critique of curriculum and governing bodies

Critique of assessment and disciplining, judging and governing bodies

Research Opportunities

  • Ubiquitous app for adult numeracy learners  (28/02/2019) An app will be developed and tested collaboratively with adult students to ensure that a sustainable numeracy learning model and tool are developed.
  • Equitable privileging of kaupapa and mātauranga ǰ with kaupapa and mātauranga maths  (04/06/2019) Seeing how kura ākonga recognise and focus on the ǰ in a topic alongside recognising and focusing on the mathematics.

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Curriculum and Pedagogy (130200): Education (130000): Education Assessment and Evaluation (130303): Education Systems (130100): Ethnic Education (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Maori and Pacific Peoples) (130307): Kura Kaupapa Maori (Maori Primary Education) (130104): Maori Education (excl. Early Childhood and Primary Education) (130310): Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy (130208): Specialist Studies in Education (130300): Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators (130313): Technical, Further and Workplace Education (130108)

Keywords

Teaching and learning of mathematics and maths education for ǰ immersion schools. 

Mātauranga and kaupapa ǰ in relation to ǰ education.

Critical mathematics.

Adult literacy and numeracy.

Research Outputs

Book

Oliveira, G., Te Maro, P., & Tweed, B. (2024). He Waka Eke Noa: Indigenising/Decolonising Initial and Teacher Education in Aotearoa New Zealand. In P. Singh, D. Heck, S. Heimans, & A. Ambrosetti (Eds.) Decolonising Teacher Education. (pp. 217 - 241). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
[Chapter]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.
Tweed, B. (2022). E anga ana ki whea? - Zombification, power and disappearance (ZPD): Meeting some of the challenges of arriving in Aotearoa. In P. Te Maro, & R. Averill (Eds.) Ki te hoe! Education for Aotearoa. Wellington, New Zealand: NZCER Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Tweed, B.Edited by: Te Maro, P.

Thesis

Te Maro, P. (2018). Mai i ngā rā o Mua. Dialectical and knowledge-power relations in the interactions of kura and maths education. A thesis submitted to Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ǰ Studies Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi School of Indigenous Graduate Studies. (Doctoral Thesis, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi School of Indigenous Graduate Studies) Te, MP. (2018). Mai i ngā rā o Mua. Dialectical and knowledge-power relations in the interactions of kura and maths education. A thesis submitted to Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ǰ Studies Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi School of Indigenous Graduate Studies. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Te Maro, P.

Conference

Tweed, B., Te Maro, P., & Tupouniua, J. (2023, November). Mathematics education, escaping the colonised and colonising myths. Presented at NZARE conference 2023. ۶Ƶ, Palmerston North.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tupouniua, J., Tweed, B.
Tweed, B., & Te Maro, P. (2019, September). Keynote address: Embracing Ako. Presented at Mathematics and Statistics Education Research Symposium
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.
Tweed, B., & Te Maro, P.Quantitative Methods in Indigenous Educational Contexts: Using Legitimation Code Theory in the interfaces between quantitative, qualitative and kaupapa ǰ research..
[Conference Other]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.

Other

Tweed, B., & Te Maro, P. (2024). Hana's haka shows up the house. : E-Tangata
[Internet publication]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.
Tweed, B., & Te Maro, P. (2020). Coronavirus and education: what the lockdown taught us.
[Internet publication]Authored by: Te Maro, P., Tweed, B.

Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • ǰ
    Last used: Today
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent

Teaching and Supervision

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 4 0
Co-supervisor 3 2

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Donna Guy - Doctor of Philosophy
    Waka Tētē - A transformational teaching pedagogy for social work students
  • Joyce Manahi - Doctor of Philosophy
    Tihei Mauri Mate: Decolonising ǰ Death - Indigenous Kōmiri Practices, End-of-Life, and Whanau Wellbeing
  • Mel Donaldson-Kira - Doctor of Philosophy
    How do current counselling and other care practices within Aotearoa New Zealand support rangatahi whai ora?
  • Danielle Hodson - Doctor of Philosophy
    Brown skin, white mask: How do colonised wāhine ǰ authorise autonomous identities within white, academia?

Co-supervisor of:

  • Katrina Iwikau - Doctor of Philosophy
    "Let our tamariki be Maaori all day, not just in term three"
  • Keita Durie - Doctor of Philosophy
    MANUKURA: A ǰ Model of Education
  • Nicole Mincher - Doctor of Philosophy
    Understanding and Re-imagining Disciplinary Processes in NZ Schools

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2025 - Jeanette Hastie - Doctor of Philosophy
    ǰ women’s perspective of mothering a loved one who has Autism (tōnā anō Takiwātanga)
  • 2024 - Alishia Moeahu - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Application of Pūrākau as Providing Positive Learning Outcomes in Kura Kaupapa ǰ