Abstract
A group of tertiary educators, all of whom have completed the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education (Level 7) (GDTE), collaborated in a Community of Practice (CoP), to consider how Māori pedagogy might inform their teaching practice at Otago Polytechnic. Five identified as Pākehā, tangata tiriti, and one as Māori, tangata whenua. As a starting point, we set out to investigate what informs our perspectives of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. We needed to consider our individual whakapapa and our understanding of te ao Māori ahead of looking at what informs our facilitation of Māori learners.