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040 _aAFVC
100 _aMooney, Hannah
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245 _aWhānau Pūkenga - survive, normalise, flourish :
_bpeer support for indigenous academic social workers
_cHannah Mooney, Ange Watson, Deacon Fisher and Paul'e Ruwhiu
260 _c2024
_bAotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers,
500 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2024, 36(1), 9–18
520 _aINTRODUCTION: Indigenous and minority groups experiences of barriers in the academy are well documented (Calhoun, 2003; McAllister et al., 2019; Mercier et al., 2011; Walters et al., 2019). Therefore, it is no surprise that Tangata Whenua academics encounter challenges in the Aotearoa New Zealand university setting. There are systems and processes that do not align with Māori worldviews and can be tokenistic. Globally there is a need for decolonisation, growth and inclusion of Indigenous epistemologies, pedagogies and liberatory spaces in the academy (Kensington-Miller & Ratima, 2015; Ruwhiu, 2019; Walters et al., 2019; Zambrana et al., 2015). APPROACH: In these environments it is essential that Tangata Whenua academics can support each other to flourish through the power of the collective. In 1993, Tangata Whenua academics teaching social work at Massey University formed a peer support group, now recognised as ‘Whānau Pūkenga’. This article focuses on the advent of this peer support model and how it has changed over time. Key issues are discussed that highlight how this model enhances the experiences of Tangata Whenua academics and students to contribute to a robust social work programme. Discussions are framed around the themes survive, normalise and flourish. In this article ‘Māori’ and ‘Tangata Whenua’ have been utilised interchangeably. Tangata Whenua is the preferred term because it acknowledges our Indigenous connection to the whakapapa whenua, whakapapa tangata. (Authors' abstract). Record #8628
650 _aINDIGENOUS PEOPLES
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650 _aIWI TAKETAKE
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650 _aMĀORI
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650 _aORA
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650 _aPEER SUPPORT
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650 _aSOCIAL WORK
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650 _aTERTIARY EDUCATON
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650 _aTOKO I TE ORA
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650 _aWELLBEING
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650 _aWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aWatson, Ange
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700 _aFisher, Deacon
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700 _aRuwhiu, Paul'e
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773 0 _tAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2024, 36(1), 9–18
830 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work
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856 _uhttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/1114
_zOpen access, PDF
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE
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