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Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi, Henderson, West Auckland, is generally credited as being the first kura kaupapa Māori and was established in 1985. The Kura Kaupapa Māori movement is a term commonly used to describe parents and supporters of kura kaupapa Māori. The term emerged when the first school was established.
After a 2000 PhD titled The Effectiveness of a Maori Noho Marae smoking cessation intervention: utilising a kaupapa Maori methodology at the University of Auckland, [2] she moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor.
Decolonizing Methodologies offers a vision of kaupapa Māori research that has been enormously influential. Ranginui Walker described the book as "a dynamic interpretation of power relations of domination, struggle and emancipation". [2] Laurie Anne Whitt praised the book as a "powerful critique of dominant research methodologies." [2]
Kaupapa Māori is the foundation or principles of Māori thought. It is the governing principles from which mātauranga was created. The exact relationship of the two domains is not set; however, they are distinct concepts. [6]
Mataira was intrigued by the Silent Way, a language teaching method created by Caleb Gattegno, and adapted the method to teach Māori. [3] In 1980 she completed a master's thesis on the silent way, at the University of Waikato. [6] Her efforts earned her the nickname of the "mother" of the Kura Kaupapa Māori, according to Dr Pita Sharples. [3]
Smith saw education as the most important part the Maori struggle for freedom. [6] She was a member of Ngā Tamatoa while a university student. [7] Smith earned her BA, MA (honours), and PhD degrees at the University of Auckland. Her 1996 thesis was titled Ngā aho o te kakahu matauranga: the multiple layers of struggle by Maori in education. [10]
Helen Moewaka Barnes (1 March 2000). "Kaupapa maori: explaining the ordinary" (PDF). Pacific health dialog : a publication of the Pacific Basin Officers Training Program and the Fiji School of Medicine.
[31]: p.107 The paper contended that while Kura Kaupapa Māori were acknowledged directly in the Tomorrow's Schools document, they were defined as 'special character schools' rather than an initiative reflecting a partnership under the obligations of the Treaty of Waitangi.