The Juxtaposition of Maori Words with English Concepts. 'Hauora, Well-Being' as Philosophy

Autor/in	Heaton, Sharyn
Titel	The Juxtaposition of Maori Words with English Concepts. 'Hauora, Well-Being' as Philosophy
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (2018) 5, S.460-468 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2016.1167583
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Pacific Islanders; Cultural Influences; Health Education; Physical Education; Well Being; Philosophy; Indigenous Knowledge; Language Usage; English; Malayo Polynesian Languages; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Philosophie; Sprachgebrauch; English language; Englisch; Neuseeland
Abstract	Within the New Zealand curriculum, hauora has been co-opted as an underlying and interdependent concept at the heart of the learning area of health and physical education. Hauora is identified as a Maori philosophy of well-being, advocating a Maori world view of hauora. Contemporary understandings of hauora as a Maori philosophy of health are constructed within dominant English-medium curriculum discourses. At first glance the juxtaposition of 'hauora' with 'well-being', and hauora being defined as 'a Maori philosophy of health' seems like an opportunity to promote an indigenous perspective of health into English-medium curriculum, but the philosophical questions of what knowledge is valued, why we should teach it, and its worth of what is taught for human well-being, remain fraught. The notion of hauora is much richer than the word 'health' allows. I explore some issues associated with the equivalence between hauora and health, and some of the potential nuances of hauora in light of a counter-colonial Maori philosophy of holism. I invite the reader to consider the terms 'whakapapa' and 'wairua' in light of a proposed metaphysics. I show that the terms--and the objects they point to--share a relationship with each other and that recognition of that interdependence are necessary to their well-being. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01