Join Professor Georgina Tuari Stewart, a pūtaiao education expert from the Auckland University of Technology and Dr Sally Birdsall, a primary science teacher educator and academic from University of Auckland, as they share new digital classroom resources exploring how Māori concepts can inform animal ethics.
Kiore – Pacific rat (Rattus exulans)
The Pacific rat – also known as the Polynesian rat – is widespread throughout the Pacific and Southeast Asia. As the species does not swim long distances, it is associated with human migration. Early Polynesian settlers chose to bring kiore to Aotearoa – they were not stowaways like the rat species that came with European ships.
A Māori worldview sees all animals as related to humans through shared whakapapa and therefore being ethically significant and worthy of respect from humans. These resources demonstrate how Māori concepts, such as kaitiakitanga, can provide a basis for the Three Rs (replace, reduce, refine) of animal ethics.
Alongside the articles, are ready to use activities and engaging videos profiling kairangahau Māori working in animal research. There are also e-versions of the resources in te reo Māori available for download as PDFs. These are designed to support teaching and learning of pūtaiao in Māori medium classrooms. Attendees are welcome to use te reo Māori during the webinar.
This new suite of classroom resources has been developed with funding and support from the Ministry for Primary Industries – Manatū Ahu Matua and the Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART).
This is the second of two webinars. Find out about the first webinar – Animals of Aotearoa on 19 September.
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Related content
Discover the resources Māori knowledge of animals and Māori concepts for animal ethics.
You can register for the first webinar in this series Animals of Aotearoa here.
Browse the wide range of content under our Ethics and science topic, this includes the recorded webinar Ethical thinking in science.
You can watch Professor Georgina Tuari Stewart discussing the inclusion of mātauranga in secondary settings in the recording: Workshop for teachers: Māori knowledge in NCEA Science.
Useful links
ANZCCART is the Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching. It’s website contains information for animal carers, animal ethics committee members, scientists and schools as well as other interested parties, including booklets on the application of the Three Rs.
You can find the original research articles for these webinars here:
- Stewart, G. T. (2024). Animals of Aotearoa: Kaupapa Māori Summaries. Anthrozoös, 37(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2023.2254552
- Stewart, G. T., & Birdsall, S. (2024, in press). Māori Concepts in Animal Ethics: Implications for the Three Rs. Anthrozoös.
