The Cultural Self-Review: Providing Culturally Effective, Inclusive Education for Māori Learners

Bevan-Brown, J. 2003 Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Bevan-Brown, J. (2003). The Cultural Self-Review: Providing Culturally Effective, Inclusive Education for Māori Learners. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research. (Available for purchase from the publisher.)

The Cultural Self-Review provides a structure and process that teachers from early childhood centres through to secondary schools can use to explore how well they cater for Māori learners, including those with special needs.

Central to the book is a cultural input framework that provides a set of principles for analysing programme components, (environment, personnel, policy, processes, content, resources, assessment, and administration). While emphasising practical ideas, the author cautions users not to take a recipe-book approach. She suggests that schools use the ideas as a springboard for discussion and for developing school action plans with strategies that meet their particular needs. In line with the framework’s eight guiding principles, she stresses the importance of including parents, whānau, and community members, including kaumātua, in a school’s cultural self-review.

The book also includes a 'stairway to cross-cultural competence' that teachers can use to better understand cultural differences and their impact on learners.

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