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Tania Ka’ai
Tania Ka’ai, B.Ed. (Hons), M.Phil., Ph.D., is of Māori (Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu), Hawaiian (Kanaka Māoli), Cook Island Māori and Samoan descent. She is a professor and Director of Te Ipukarea Research Institute and Associate Dean Māori in the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand. Tania has a background in mātauranga Māori (‘Māori knowledge’) and Māori education. However, she locates her work in the intersections of revivalistics, a transdisciplinary field of enquiry encompassing language reclamation, revitalization, reinvigoration, Indigenous methodologies, pedagogies and knowledges (mātauranga), and language activism – giving language a voice. As an Indigenous scholar, she uses the cultural values and knowledge transmitted to her by her Māori and Pacific mentors as an Indigenous framework to inform her research, teaching and postgraduate supervision. Tania is often described as a ‘human bridge’ between the university and Indigenous communities. Her research and publications reflect this work.
Contact: Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology, 55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.