The co-opting of hauora into curricula

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Currently, the Mäori word hauora is translated in New Zealand curricula as health and wellbeing or as health and physical education for Mäori-medium education. "Hauora, wellbeing" is also an underlying concept within Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum, where it is claimed that it offers a "Mäori philosophy of health unique to New Zealand". The use of Mäori words and concepts in English-medium curricula is a source of tension, in as much as this usage involves a claim to represent a shared Mäori perspective. Understandings of hauora need to go beyond their simplified interpretations within curricula.

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Heaton, S. (2011). The co-opting of hauora into curricula. Curriculum Matters, 7, 99–117. https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0130
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