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Teaching from multiple knowledge systems

In a classroom a woman videos students on a phone as 3 rows of them perform a song

Kaiako Simone Marsters videos her students singing a karakia waiata.

Simone was able to build on her students’ knowledge and excitement to teach about the origins of the universe from te ao Māori and Western science perspectives.

Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato 
Published: 29 June 2026Size: 10.37 MB
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