July 20, 2017
Maori entrepeneurship in education to feature at world indigenous conference
Maori business entrepreneurship in education will be discussed at the World Indigenous People's Conference on Education in Toronto next week.
Janine Kapa-Blair, Deputy Chief Executive of Maori Development at Otago Polytechnic is co-presenting along with Dr Dianne Ruwhiu on business entrepreneurship in education.
Otago Polytech successfully developed a programme 'Te Parikiriki o te Kii' – Preparing the Seed Bed.
Along with the Otago Business School, the programme saw them bringing together tauira at the end of the student's academic year for a four week intensive look at Maori entrepenuership in start up businesses.
A kaupapa Kai Tahu/Maori business canvass called 'Te Whata' was then designed by University of Otago's Corey Bragg which further developed an educational framework.
Janine Kapa Blair says their korero will detail the evolution of the programme from educational tertiary level to community implementation.
She says, indigenous peoples' have used their knowledge, wisdom over time to innovate resources available to them.
Social enterprise and the growing of a cultural capital is a point of commonality amongst indigenous peoples that Janine Kapa Blair hopes to investigate further when she visits the Colleges and Institutes of Canada in Ottawa where an indigenous curriculum is in place.
The World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education WIPCE starts next week in Toronto Canada.
JANINE KAPA BLAIR
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