Te Kotahitanga eBook Collection

This collection of publications was funded by the Ministry of Education as part of their commitment to raising the achievement of Māori students.

Collection Overview

Professor Russell Bishop

This collection of eBooks represents many years of learning from a research partnership between Professor Emeritus Russell Bishop and Associate Professor Mere Berryman with the Poutama Pounamu research whānau. Their work investigates and informs system-change solutions to the educational disparities experienced by indigenous and other minoritised groups.

An innovative, iterative research and development programme, Te Kotahitanga took as its starting point the educational experiences of Māori students in secondary schools. The project features in the books, numerous reports and papers in professional journals and publications, and in the Professional Development and Leadership best evidence syntheses (BESs).

Mate Reweti, Morehu Ngatoko, and Rangiwhakaehu of Poutama Pounamu.

A bibliography of these publications are also available on this page.

Te Kotahitanga's effectiveness was very closely monitored throughout its 13 years. The fifth and final phase was reported on in Ka Hikitia A Demonstration Report: Effectiveness of Te Kotahitanga Phase 5 2010-12.

In this report, author Dr Alton-Lee provides an overview of the key elements of Te Kotahitanga that enabled accelerated improvement. She explains the model and highlights factors that were critical to the success of Te Kotahitanga Phase 5:

1.   Indigenous educational expertise
2.  Whakawhanaungatanga driving the how of improvement
Associate Professor Mere Berryman represents the award winning Te Kotahitanga project at the World Innovation Summit for Education 2014. 3.  Effective teaching: culturally responsive pedagogy
4.  Transformative educational leadership: reforming schools
5.  Educationally powerful connections
6   R & D driving accelerated improvement to scale.

Members of the Bay of Islands College Board of Trustees receiving the first edition of the iBook publications in 2013

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In 2015 Professor Emeritus Russell Bishop and Associate Professor Mere Berryman were recipients of the NZARE Māori Group Award and in 2016 were made Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Read the full report: Ka Hikitia A Demonstration. Adrienne Alton-Lee's (2013) presentation can be viewed below:

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Professor Russell Bishop

Professional Learning Support

The electronic books in this collection are an outcome of more than 13 years of iterative research and development and are for use by facilitators within a structured professional learning context.

They have been developed to give facilitators in the field mobile access to rich media and just-in-time resource materials.

Recognising that much of the knowledge in these eBooks was derived from or refined through collaboration with Te Kotahitanga schools and whānau, it was gifted back to those schools in the form of these iBooks at the 2013 Hui Whakanukunuku.

The books are currently being used in Kia Eke Panuku: Building on Success.