Hōhonu: Deepening Te Ao Māori within Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental restoration work
June 2024
I hangaia a Hōhonu hei tautoko i te hunga tiaki taiao. Hōhonu is a new tool to help those working in environmental stewardship, and specifically environmental restoration, to consider the skills, knowledge and awareness needed to embrace Te Ao Māori.
The two main objectives of Hōhonu are to:
1. Create positive impacts for the environment
2. Strengthen partnerships between Māori and Pākehā.
In this webinar we describe the research that went into developing Hōhonu, including a kaupapa Māori discourse analysis of websites, interviews with restoration practitioners, and online opinion pieces. We then introduce the five dimensions that compose Hōhonu: Mātauranga, Tikanga, Te reo, Tangata, Moemoeā. When these five elements are being practised, kia hōhonu ai te mōhiotanga, a deepening towards Te Ao Māori occurs.
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