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Melinda Webber (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaue) is a professor and Te Tumu/Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at Waipapa Taumata Rau/the University of Auckland. She is a former Fulbright/Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga scholar. In 2016, she was awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant to undertake a research project examining the distinctive identity traits of Te Tai Tokerau tūpuna (leading to this book), and in 2017 she was awarded a prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to tackle an important question facing educators – ‘How can we foster cultural pride and academic aspiration among Māori students?’. Melinda Webber was the 2017 Director for Phase Three of The Starpath Project and is currently the University of Auckland co-director for the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity programme. She also spent six years as a co-principal investigator on the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga-funded project ‘Ka Awatea’ which examined the nature of teaching, learning, and home socialisation patterns that support Māori student success in education. Melinda’s research focuses on better understanding the effects of Māori student motivation and academic engagement, culturally sustaining teaching, localised curricula, and enduring school–family–community partnerships for learning.

Ko Ahorangi Melinda Webber (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaue) te Tumu o te Tari Mātauranga, Toko i te Ora, i Waipapa Taumata Rau. I whiwhi hoki ia ki te tohu Fulbright/Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, i ngā tau ki muri. Ka mutu, i whakawhiwhia ki te pūtea Marsden Fast-Start, he tautoko i a ia ki te rapu mātauranga e hāngai ana ki ngā tūpuna o Te Tai Tokerau (te tīmatanga mai o te pukapuka nei). Ka mutu, i te tau 2017, ka whakawhiwhia ia ki te Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, he ketu i te pātai nui kei mua i te hunga kaiako – ‘Me pēhea te whakatupu i te aroha ki te taha Māori, i te wairua hiahia ako hoki i roto i ngā ākonga Māori?’ I taua tau anō, ko Melinda te kaihautū i te kaupapa Phase Three of The Starpath Project. Hoi, i tēnei wā, ko ia tētahi o ngā kaihautū i te kaupapa Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, i raro i a Waipapa Taumata Rau. Āpiti atu, e ono tau ōna i tū ai hei kaiwhakahaere uiuinga mā Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, i te kaupapa e kīia nei ko ‘Ka Awatea’. He kaupapa rapu tēnei i te āhua ako o te ākonga Māori, me te pā hoki o tana āhua noho i te kāinga ki taua ako, e kake ai te ākonga i roto i te ao mātauranga. Ko te aronga nui o wā Melinda mahi, ko te rapu i ngā huarahi e mārama kē ake ai tātou ki te hinengaro o te ākonga Māori ki ngā mahi ako, te whai wāhi mai o te taha Māori ki te ako, te tautoko i ngā ākoranga e takea mai ana i te kāinga, me te tūhonohono o te kura, o te kāinga, o te iwi i roto i aua mahi.

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Melinda Webber

Melinda Webber

A Fire in the Belly of Hineāmaru: A Collection of Narratives about Te Tai Tokerau Tūpuna

Ka Ngangana Tonu a Hineāmaru: He Kōrero Tuku Iho nō Te Tai Tokerau