Leonie Pihama

Leonie Eileen Pihama is a New Zealand Kaupapa Māori academic, of Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga and Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi descent.

Leonie Pihama
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Auckland, University of Waikato
Thesis	Tīhei mauri ora : honouring our voices : mana wahine as a kaupapa Māori : theoretical framework (2001)

Career

Pihama won a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award and is now a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga principal investigator.[1] She did a PhD at the University of Auckland and rose to Associate Professor there,[2] before moving to the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.[3]

Pihama served on the establishment board of Māori TV and then as a director, but quit after three years due to a conflict of interest involving a family member.[4]

In 2017, Pihama was ranked as one of the '100 Māori leaders' by Te Rau Matatini.[5]

Publications

• Pihama, Leonie, Fiona Cram, and Sheila Walker. "Creating methodological space: A literature review of Kaupapa Maori research." Canadian Journal of Native Education 26, no. 1 (2002): 30.
• Pihama, Leonie. "Tīhei mauri ora: honouring our voices: mana wahine as a kaupapa Māori: theoretical framework." PhD thesis., ResearchSpace@ Auckland, 2001.
• Pihama, Leonie. "Tungia te ururua, kia tupu whakaritorito te tupu o te harakeke: A critical analysis of parents as first teachers." Masters thesis, ResearchSpace@ Auckland, 1993.
• Pihama, Leonie, Kaapua Smith, Mereana Taki, and Jenny Lee. "A literature review on kaupapa Maori and Maori education pedagogy." Prepared for ITP New Zealand by The International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education (IRI) (2004).
• Johnston, Patricia, and Leonie Pihama. "What counts as difference and what differences count: Gender, race and the politics of difference." Irwin K, Ramsden I. Toi Wähine: The Worlds of Mäori Women. Penguin Books, Auckland (1995).
• Pihama, Leonie. "Are films dangerous?: a Maori woman's perspective on 'The Piano'." Hecate 20, no. 2 (1994): 239.

References

1. "Dr Leonie Pihama | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". Maramatanga.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
2. "Dr Leonie Pihama - The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
3. "Leonie Pihama - Te Kotahi Research Institute (TKRI): Māori Research Institute for Innovation, Well-being and Inspiration : University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz.
4. https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/maori-television-pihama-quits
5. "Associate Professor Leonie Pihama - 100 Maori Leaders". 100maorileaders.com.

External links

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