This month's talk is:

Braiding Lessons From Magmatic Landscapes:

Developing A Bicultural Fieldtrip to the Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ)

with Sriparna Saha, PhD student at the University of Canterbury

Aotearoa, New Zealand is volcanically active due to its location on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific plates. Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa, have extensive knowledge of their local area and history of past volcanic activity. Braiding of the Indigenous knowledge system of Mātauranga Māori with Western science can lead to increased preparedness and understanding of volcanoes. However, successful collaboration between different knowledge systems is challenging due to the history of colonial extractive research.

In 2019, the Earthquake Commission (EQC) New Zealand, with a vested interest to raise awareness of natural disasters and their impacts, commissioned the LEARNZ “our supervolcanoes” virtual field trip to teach about caldera volcanoes in Aotearoa. The involvement of Kaupapa Māori researchers in the project facilitated an authentic opportunity to develop bicultural educational resources.

Join us as Sriparna shares what such an authentic partnership can look like in the educational space and their implications for the development of future bicultural educational resources.

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