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Bicultural confidence & competence

07 June 2024

New 九州影院has two distinct cultures. UC aims to prepare our students to work alongside both cultures with confidence and understand how it's relevant to their study and career. Find out how to equip students with bicultural confidence and competence.

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Engaging and understanding both New 九州影院cultures

Having bicultural confidence develops awareness and the ability to relate to different ideas. Students will learn how to co-operate with both cultures with confidence, understanding the different customs associated with the two cultures and combining them into their work when needed. This skill also builds understanding with cultural identity, and the ability to see how culture connects with others, how ideas can be influenced and how it affects the work created.

Graduate Profile Student BiCC Kaupapa
Kaupapa

The kaupapa outlined below are overarching ideas on which to base more specific pedagogy, activities and experiences. Learning outcomes can be linked directly to them, as can course assessments. They provide a macro view to inform curriculum and do not define how these are to be applied to individual programmes of study.

Bicultural Competence Kaupapa

Orientation

A process of self-reflection on the nature of 鈥榢nowledge鈥 and 鈥榥orms鈥.


Self

The nature of contemporary M膩ori organisational structures e.g. r奴nanga, hap奴, iwi, iwi corporations.


Local, place-based

Traditional and contemporary realities of M膩ori society e.g. tikanga and kawa, te reo M膩ori.


National

The Treaty of Waitangi and Aotearoa New Zealand鈥檚 bicultural history.


National

The processes of colonisation and globalisation.

National and international

Other indigenous models of development, knowledge and behaviours.


International

Application of bicultural competence and confidence in a chosen discipline and career.


Self, local, national and international

Examples
  • Present a public proposal or discussion to a range of audiences including local iwi.
  • Work on a community-based 鈥榩roblem鈥 or issue with a local iwi (e.g. develop resources for a school, a marketing report for a child-care centre, or develop public-health poster for a community).
  • Reflect on different perspectives on a single problem particularly from different cultural views.
  • Prepare a presentation that investigates the environmental, bicultural and socio鈥恈ultural aspects of human relationship to the land.
  • Incorporate the mihi method in the classroom (learn more: contact the Office of the AVC M膩ori, enrol in: Tangata T奴 , Tangata Ora or Culturally Responsive Pedagogy).
  • Design different ways to communicate information (e.g. social policies, public health, human rights) to different audiences and through different communication channels that reflects bicultural principles and understanding.
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