Te Whare Tapa Wh is an holistic approach model developed by Mason Durie ???

during a
hui on Maori health in 1982. This approach has four components (te taha wairua, te taha
tinana, te taha whanau and te taha hinengaro) which contribute to a whole, hauora. Te Whare
Tapa Wh is seen as relevant to the New Zealand curriculum and students learning and
development.
The four components are as follows:
Te Taha Wairua relates to spirituality for individuals in their cultural values and beliefs.
Te Taha Hinengaro relates to mental and emotional well-being understanding thoughts and
feelings associated with strengths and weaknesses and celebrating success.
Te Taha Whanau relates to creating and maintaining strong support networks within a
students family and community.
Te Taha Tinana relates to physical well-being and how a students physical condition may
affect their learning and development provides effective learning and development resources.
Te Whare Tapa Wha views these four components as interconnected and essential to the
overall hauora (well-being).
Affordances
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acknowledges that family background/social background affect student learning

Honours the Treaty of Waitangi Rangatiratanga
Relates to all kinds of kids
Fits into the NZC
Identifies
Kotahitanga Drury Interconnection/each part interrelate.
Mana aoturoa Maori culture/allows for a safe place to learn from.

Te where Tapu Wha is supported by Kohahitanga (holistic developer) of a whole person is

the development of an interconnected whole where each part is interrelated (Druery)
Limitations
Holistic approach and does not address the objectives described in the New Zealand
Curriculum. Therefore, may not be placed as fundamental learning theory.
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Originally holistic approach to Maori health.

NZC focuses on objective based learning.
Te Ao Maori not business of state
Education is expected to be sole access point into Te Ao Moari unreasonable to
expect.
Equally unreasonable to expect that education should ignore the meaning of Maori
and should not assume some responsibility.

Durie, M.(2011). Indigenizing mental health services: New Zealand

experience.Transcultural psychiatry, 48(1-2), 24-36.