Hiria McRae

Hiria McRae is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education. She has extensive experience in working with practicing teachers and teaching postgraduate students and teacher trainees in the areas of mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori, science and technology, critical pedagogies, education for sustainability. Past research projects have included iwi exploration of Māori student success, digital devices to connect home and school learning in low socio-economic communities and Māori community based science programmes.

Hiria's current research projects include:
◾ Sole researcher of the development of an iwi strategy for Ngāti Whakaue
◾ Associate researcher in a Marsden funded project exploring difficult histories with diverse Māori communities (with Professor Joanna Kidman)
◾ Culturally responsive and sustaining initial teacher education (with Associate Professor Robin Averill)
◾ Recruitment and retention of Māori and Pacific Island teacher trainees (with Dr Fuapepe Rimoni)
◾ Development of te ao Māori applications to engage Māori students with computer science