Dr Kimai Tocker
Education Doctorate, MEd, BEd, DipTchg.
Biography
He pepeha
Ko Kauriki te marae
Ko Ngāti Hinemihi te hapū
Ko Tongariro te maunga
Ko Taupō nui a Tia te roto
Ko Te Heuheu te tangata
Ko Ngāti Tūwharetoa te iwi
Ko te Arawa te waka
He hononga anō ōku ki a
Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato,
Ki te iwi Pākehā hoki.
I began teaching and lecturing in the school of Te Puna Wānanga at the University of Auckland-Faculty of Education and Social Work, in 2000. Prior to that, as a primary school teacher, I taught in a rumaki reo/Māori medium unit within a mainstream school and later at a kura kaupapa Māori.
My focus on kaupapa Māori continues at the Faculty of Education and Social Work where I teach in Māori medium courses as part of the BEd-Te Huarahi Māori programme. As the Director of English Medium Programmes, I manage a number of courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. I also co-ordinate courses within the BEd mainstream and BEd-Te Huarahi Māori degree programmes and supervise students at Masters level.
My doctoral thesis, “Hei oranga Māori i te ao hurihuri nei. Living as Māori in the world today: An account of kura kaupapa Māori” interrogates the ideas about ‘living as Māori’ that underpin the objectives of kura kaupapa Māori. I was awarded a Doctorate in Education in 2014.
Research and Teaching Specialisations
- Te reo Māori
- Māori medium education
- Māori education
- Ngā Toi (Arts)
- Pānui- Tuhituhi (Literacy)
- Education
Research | Current
- Te reo Māori
- Māori medium education
- Kura Kaupapa Māori
- Kaupapa Māori theory
Research Projects
- McMurchy-Pilkington, C & Tocker, K (2007) Te Pakeke Hei Ākonga: Māori Adult Learners. Report to the Ministry of Education
- Hohepa, M; Cram, F & Tocker, K (2000) Te Tari Tautoko : a management support programme for Kura Kaupapa Māori : evaluation research report. Wellington [N.Z.] : Ministry of Education, Research Division
Teaching | Current
EdProfSt100-Hāpai Ākonga: Course Administrator and lecturer
EdCurrM101-Ngā Toi: Course Administrator and lecturer
EdProfM205-Te Whakatairanga Paetae mō ngā Ākonga rerenga Kē: Lecturer
EdPracM201-Practium Primary: Lecturer
EdProfM313-Te Pouako Ngaio: Lecturer
Postgraduate supervision
2015:
Supervision of Melevea Huihui and Cindy Wetere-Pile during their dissertations.
Supervision of Cindy Wetere-Pile who is studying the Special Topic EDUC 750.
Distinctions/Honours
MEd 1st Class Honours
Responsibilities
Practicum Co-ordinator
English medium Director
Reviewed: Article for Mai Journal ‘Māori educators’ pedagogy’.
Marked: Masters Thesis in April, 2015
Monitored: the Poutuarongo Te Rangakura Kaiwhakaako degree programme for Te Wānanga o Raukawa
Areas of expertise
- Te reo Māori
- Māori medium education
- Māori education
- Ngā Toi (Arts)
- Pānui - Tuhituhi (Literacy)
- Education
Committees/Professional groups/Services
Te Puna Wānanga representative on the Teaching and Learning Quality Committee.
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Tocker, K. (2017). Living and learning as Māori: Language stories from three generations. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education10.1017/jie.2016.28
- Tocker, K. (2016). Kura kaupapa Māori: Preparing graduates to live as Māori in the world today. Paper presented at NZARE Annual Conference 2016, Victoria University, Wellington. 20 November - 23 November 2016. Related URL.
- Tocker, K. (2015). The development of kura kaupapa Māori. The struggle for Māori language schooling. Paper presented at He Manawa Whenua Indigenous Research Conference 2015, Hamilton, New Zealand. 29 June - 1 July 2015.
- Tocker, K. (2015). The Origins of Kura Kaupapa Māori. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 50 (1), 23-38. 10.1007/s40841-015-0006-z
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27917 - Tocker, K. (2015). The beginning of kura kaupapa Māori: Indigenous schooling in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Paper presented at Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2015, Freemantle, Australia. 30 November - 4 December 2015. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' Research. Related URL.
- Tocker, K. (2014). Hei oranga Māori i te ao hurihuri nei. Living as Māori in the world today: An account of kura kaupapa Māori The University of Auckland. ResearchSpace@Auckland.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/22755 - Tocker, K. (2012). Hei oranga Māori i te ao hurihuri nei: Living as Māori in the world today- An outcome of kura kaupapa Māori. MAI Journal, 1 (1), 15-28. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27980 - Tocker, K. (2007). Kura kaupapa Māori experiences. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 42 (1-2), 65-76.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27984
