An initiative by
collaborative stakeholders
in Partnership with EPIT
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He Whakaaraara will be New Zealand's first national report highlighting the inequities and barriers faced by our most vulnerable learners. This initial collaborative effort brings together communities, research analysts, support organisations, and a key funding agency. The voices of communities will build over time as groups contribute their own examples of learning inequity.
The initiative will bring together data, evidence and narratives about the scope and nature of inequity that exists in our education landscape, illustrating where barriers to equity are being deconstructed and reconstructed in ways that reflect Te Tiriti o Waitangi and equitable outcomes for all.
Despite many good initiatives and intentions over the years, Aotearoa has not made a shift for our impacted communities and we now need a comprehensive and cohesive view of the challenges faced by our learners. The aim is to give some structure and a call to action for those who want to help to make the impact more measurable and more successful. What we are doing is deliberately intentional to provoke awareness and equity conversations within and across communities. More importantly, He Whakaaraara aims to promote a connected approach to collaborative action and solutions.
The aim of He Whakaaraara is to create a comprehensive overview to the nation on the state of inequity in Aotearoa. The ‘big data’ sets in education measure equity in ways that define the current narrative we bring to equity. The statistics we have are consistently framed as percentages and comparisons across ethnic groups or compared to all learners. The focus is on what learners cannot do, what learners need to do, and what contexts they experience (retention in education, stand-downs and suspensions, child poverty, abuse and assault etc.) Many of these known inequities are intergenerational.There has been very little attention to data that prioritises what communities value and very little independent data on “upstream” factors that are increasingly being uncovered as the root causes of inequities for many groups of learners.
By connecting the actual voices and experiences of marginalised communities with data sets from those communities, He Whakaaraara will help us to understand and act on the education inequities that they face every day
The initiative is using Tātai Aho Rau Core Education’s theory of action as the approach to change which involves using iterations to understand, co-design and implement innovation. More specifically in this initiative the stages will be:
A working collaboration between UNICEF, Mātauranga Iwi Leaders Group, Tātai Aho Rau Core Education and EPIT