Tania Ka’ai
Tania Ka’ai
Tania is a professor, director of Te Ipukarea Research Institute and Te Pou Māori (Associate Dean: Māori). Her background is in Māori education, with specific interest in immersion Māori language education. Tania has been an educator in tertiary education for 30+ years using the cultural values and knowledge transmitted to her by her Māori and Pacific elders to advocate for Indigenous epistemologies, pedagogies and methodologies. She has been involved in Māori language revitalisation interventions for 39 years, which has expanded to the Pacific, working with communities to create digital language resources.