‘Hospitality’, boundary crossing and thresholds applied in education: Embodying manaakitanga and whanaungatanga

In everyday understanding, ‘hospitality’ refers to paid work contexts; commodities and transactional tasks. Hospitality can, however, have much broader significance. It can be understood in cultural and social terms within and beyond transactional contexts. In Māori cultural knowledge and practices for example, hospitality has reciprocal, relational nuances. Perhaps both views imply that ‘hospitality’ is an act of ‘crossing boundaries […] or thresholds’ as Still (2013: 4) suggested. Relational, reciprocal, boundary-crossing practices may also infer ritual understandings of respect, kindness, generosity and harmony. Crossing thresholds is a central concept in Māori knowledge and practices and is central to this article exploring concepts and practices of hospitality in a new primary school focused on building its practices on relational and reciprocal values. In Aotearoa New Zealand educational contexts, hospitality is a cultural, social reciprocal and relational practice. Thus, through examining ‘hospitality’, ‘borders’ and ‘thresholds’ across the boundaries of education and commerce, we hope to illuminate both connections and differences. We do so through reviewing both literature about ‘hospitality’, ‘borders’ and ‘thresholds’ and interview data from a new school intentionally valuing whanaungatanga

Ngā kaiako mÅ āpÅpÅ: Waiho mā te iwi e kÅrero

He huarahi whakapiringa te rangahau o Te Puni Rumaki, e pā ana ki te kaupapa arareo Māori ki rotoi ngā hÅtaka mātauranga kaiwhakaako tuatahi. He rangahau whakahono i ngā kaupapa whakarauorareo taketake me Åna tikanga ki te taha mātauranga o Aotearoa. Ko te tirohanga o te iwi te aronga nui o tānei rangahau. Ka aro ki ngā nekehanga o te Tāhuhu me ngā hÅtaka mātauranga kaiwhakaako tuatahi mehemea ka tautoko te oranga o tÅ tātou reo Māori me Åna tikanga, ka aha rānei. Ahakoa i tā«mata tānei rangahau i te tau 2013 i tā«mata kā ānei tÅ«momo kura i roto i ngā tau 1800.No reira ka tohua tānei tuhinga ki te hā«tori o ānei tÅ«momo kura, ki ngā kÅrero o ngā hÅtakamātauranga kaiwhakaako tuatahi, kātahi ka aro ki ngā paearu o ngā hÅtaka arareo Māori kua ekepanuku. Mai i ānei kÅrero ka kite atu mehemea i tutuki, kāore i tutuki rānei ngā tÅ«manako o ngā iwi