Manawa Taiao, Manawa Ora
Sharing hope and action
This page is available for those who registered for our October 2024 national online conference, with links to all of the recorded sessions. You can read the full presentation descriptions and speaker bios on our conference webpage here.
These videos will be available until the end of the school year so make sure you set aside some time to watch them over the next few months. All of the concurrent session videos are between 18 - 25 minutes. Click on the green links below to watch the videos.
Kaikōrero | Keynote Speaker
Steve Katene, Deputy Principal Heretaunga Intermediate
Ko Steve Katene tōku ingoa. He Tumuaki tuarua o te Kura o Heretaunga Intermediate, Hastings. I whakapapa to Wairoa and live in Napier, in the suburb of Taradale, two areas of many in Aotearoa that have been and continue to be impacted by our changing climate. My conversation with you is an indigenous one. Seeded within the complex concepts of Mātauranga Māori are lessons learnt and plans forward to living with Climate change. Let us walk together, kete in hand, side by side. The future for our children lies in the balance.
Concurrent Sessions - Round One
Healthy Active Learning: Case studies of nature connection
Tracey-Lee Dalton WATCH NOW
Towards flourishing climate education in Aotearoa
Rachel Bolstad WATCH NOW
Tiako Taiao: Empowering rangatahi
Hannah Simmonds WATCH NOW
Ko au te taiao - new teaching resource
Mero Rokx and Sarah Hopkinson WATCH NOW
Competencies for the Anthropocene
Chris Eames WATCH NOW
Concurrent Sessions - Round Two
Moutoa Island Restoration
Dr Rawiri Tinirau and tamariki WATCH NOW
Mana Ora: Students decarbonising schools
Meadowbank School - Jude Hannan with Nicky from Sustainable Schools WATCH NOW
Using Pūrākau for Learning about Climate Change
Ryan Jackson WATCH NOW
Love Rimurimu: learning through regenerating kelp
Jorge Jimenez & Joe Warmington from Mountains to Sea Wellington WATCH NOW
Earth Dreamers: Growing hope in the climate crisis - new teaching resource
Sarah Hopkinson and Erica Norton WATCH NOW
Concurrent Sessions - Round Three
Growing together at Pinehaven Playcentre
Hannah and Michelle WATCH NOW
Raranga, raranga: weaving a framework for whenua-based education
Violet Aydon-Pou WATCH NOW
Climate Change Literacy: Hope in action
Sian Carvell, Will Stovall and students TK and Caitlin WATCH NOW
Te Ara o Raukawa Moana
Ashleigh Sagar & Robert McClean WATCH NOW
Fostering hope in the face of climate change and eco-anxiety
Gabrielle Feather WATCH NOW
“Too late” and other linguistic challenges of climate change
Nadine Hura WATCH NOW
Nadine has kindly shared the following list of suggested resources, as requested by our participants in the live session.
Colonialism and climate
Rauora - Indigenous framework (authored by Dayle Takitium and Mike Smith for Ihirangi / Iwi chairs). Essential reading to help develop fluency around indigenous understandings of colonialism and a whakapapa approach to the causes of climate change.
4 part narrative podcast series Ahi Kaa - 2024 - illustrates historical connection between colonisation and climate change through five different communities across Aotearoa, Ihumaatao, Te Tairāwhiti, Whanganui, Porirua, Pikitū.
Ngā Kete Mātauranga (also available as audiobook) particularly recommend Naomi Simmonds - Naomi's interview on Taringa, mana wāhine geographies is a must listen.
Nuku: Stories of 100 Indigenous Women (also audiobook) - mana wāhine as climate activators through mahi and reclamation. See also below -
Vandana Shiva & Jessica Hutchings on Rematriation. Read everything by Vandana Shiva, the book Staying Alive is a good starting place. There are also lots of videos and resources online (including a TED talk). This interview with Jessica Hutchings applying an Ao Māori perspective to rematriation is essential, especially in unpacking the highly gendered nature of climate discourse.
Anishinaabe Researcher Karl Whyte distinguishes between ecological and relational tipping points and argues that relational tipping points were crossed a long time ago for indigenous people. Whyte, K. (2019). Too late for indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points. WIREs Climate Change, (Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)?). and also Whyte, Kyle. (2017). Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene. English language notes. 55. 10.1215/00138282-55.1-2.153.
Poetry
Sedition by Anahera Gildea, Whai by Nicole Titihuia (won Ockham Best First Poetry book award in 2023, also a kaiako), everything by Alice Te Punga Somerville, Arihia Latham Birdspeak, there are so many poets publishing on Instagram, including in Te Reo Māori, i.e. Rangimārie Sophie Jolley, Abbi Hauraki and Aperahama Hurihangaui (both reo Māori poets), 617 Poets (South Auckland Poets Collective). This is not an exhaustive list!!!
International poets - everything by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson but in particular As We Have Always Done. Blakwork by Alison Whittaker, Drop Bear by Evelyn Araleun, Jazz Money, Joy Harjo (ofc! OG!), Firefront First Nations Poetry today.
Rangatahi Voice
During our live conference we shared some short videos highlighting rangatahi voice, which were very popular! The links are below, along with a few extra that we didn’t have time to include on the day but are worth sharing with ākonga to inspire action.
Redeeming Revolution | Verses in Vision Tāmaki - Action Education, July 2022 (3:20 mins)
The teen fighting for greener, healthier schools | The Forever Project (Stuff), Rhiannon Mackie Dec 2021 (1:40 mins)
Te Hoiere Restoration | MfE - Jobs for Nature, Dec 2022 (1:00)
Rongomaiwahine Iwi Trust | Te Mana o Te Wai - MfE Sept 2024 (4 mins)
Mana Rangatahi: Youth Climate change leadership decision making with Te Aratai College, Deep South National Science Challenge, March 2024 (5 mins)
A new generation of kaitiaki - Te Ao with Moana, August 2024 (15 mins)
Speaking 4 the Planet - entries from 2024 Ōtautahi NZ (each video about 3 mins)
Once upon a future - United Nations Foundation, by Damon Gameau, Sept 2024 (3 mins)
