1. Wānanga – Mobilising Learning Populations Tākiri ko te ata The breaking of a new dawn T.W. Pohatu 16 March 2009

2. Learning Populations Knowledge and their wisdoms are travellers in perpetuity. Right to engage / participate. People Cultures Opportunities to embrace new knowledge or refashion knowledge as an old friend in a new place.

3. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Is a principled Learning Institution. Is a significant contributor to the tertiary sector in Aotearoa. Is a driver of positive cultural, social, personal and economic transformation. Is a space that offers unique options and learning pathways.

4. The TWoA Pattern Response to Need Being Innovative Being Courageous Inviting Māori Ways

5. Wānanga Tauira Are re-imaginers. Have re-imagined their futures - made choices. We must respond by being imaginers. Ongoing Questions – ‘Are we?’ – How do we do this?

6. The Challenge If Māori ‘cannot control the definition we cannot control meanings and the theories which lie behind these meanings.' Linda Te Tuhiwai Smith, 1995

7. Obligation ….. kia mau ki te whakapono, kia mau ki te aroha, ki te ture ….. Potatau Te Wherowhero, 1860 Hold fast to the Faith, Valued Relationships, and the High Principles of our Humanity

8. Acknowledging Te Ao Māori Māori thinking, processes and applications accorded a valued place in all Wānanga activities. TWoA consciously developing ways of doing this. Requires rethinking / repositioning of Māori knowledge, wisdom and applications in TWoA.

9. Positioning Ta Te Māori WhakaaroTitiroKōreroTumanakoMōhioTū

10. Te Tapuwaeroa – The Indelible Imprint Kaitiakitanga – Valued stewardship Me tiaki tātau katoa i te kaupapa We all have stewardship purpose and obligations Āhurutanga – Valued safe space Hei āhurutanga mo ngā tauira Safe space for students Koha – Valued contribution Hei koha ki te Wānanga. As a valued contribution to the Wānanga. Mauri-ora – Valued wellbeing Tihē mauri-ora te Wānanga

11. Framework Opportunity to add value to the old in a new time. To locate, position, name and language: Practises and thinking that underpin TWoA kaupapa; Points of uniqueness that make TWoA what it is; Points named from ‘within’.

12. Contextualisation Localised sovereignty. Proposes multiple spaces/sites of activity. Where people, dreams and kaupapa are worked on.

13. Hei Whakaarotanga ‘Ko tāku tēnei ki ā koe, hangaia, houtia ōku nei whakaaro, kia hāngai ki tōhau na kaupapa’ ‘Mine to you is, recreate and rewrite my ideas and thoughts to your purpose. P. Freire 1998