Planning and Thinking Based On Perspectives from Te Ao Māori.

Part Two: Māori society as an audience is largely based around collective responsibility. Individualism and individual responsibility was uncommon. This may give weight to an idea of a shared resource bank or site, that many local staff could and would contribute too. A large number of co-governance and co-management models and arrangements have emerged to describe the role of iwi/hapū in resource management. So why do we not have these models when constructing our frameworks for planning and thinking? Co-planning between Māori  and non Māori  and planning together under co-governance to achieve a very robust way of incorporating more than one world view. A shared process where iwi/hapū/tangata whenua interests and values, and the use and understanding of mātauranga Māori are incorporated into localised planning, including the development of policies, goals and objectives in learning activities and ways of creatively thinking. Maori learners are descendants of Maui....

Part One:  I am asking where are all the Māori Creative frameworks for planning and thinking across the digital platforms and where are the pedagogies that are based in Māori Tikanga that allow for collaboration? Mātauranga Māori describes a Māori way of being and engaging in the wider world. Māori as a group of people need to understand the connectedness between all things humans and non-human, as it ‘what is its whakapapa?’ An initial question is, ‘who or what is this thing I am seeing in this world and how do I relate to it?’ I want to take that initial concept and state of  thinking and use it to create a framework of thinking  and planning that can be used.  I am also looking for ways that the use of Māori connectedness can be used for collaboration. Even the much maligned Eldon Best States "In studying the mythology of the Maori race, we cannot help but be struck by the general personification or allegorization of natural phenomena, the heavenly bodie...