AUT - Gary Leaf

Gary Leaf

Associate Head of School (Maori)

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 extension 7935

Email: gary.leaf@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

MA (Hons). BMEd, Dip. Tchg (Primary)

Biography:

Tēna koutou, no te TaiTokerau ahau, arā, no Whirinaki i te Hokianga. Ko Te Hikutu te hapu, ko Pa Te Aroha rāua ko Mātai Aronui ngā marae. Erangi, aiani ka noho mātou ko tāku whanau i te rakipaewhenua i Tamaki-mā-kaurau. He kaiako hoki i tōku hoa wāhine i tetahi kura tuatahi o te Rakipaewhenua, otiiā tokorua ā māua tamariki.

I ēnei ra e mahi ana au i te Kura Mātauranga i AUT i te Rakipaewhenua, tino waimarie au i te mea e hoa ma, he tino wānanga a AUT ki te tautoko i ngā kaupapa o Ngai tāua i te iwi Māori.

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Experience:

• Programme Manager - Te Puna o Te Matauranga, NorthTec
• Programme Co-ordinator , Te Aka ki te Wānanga - Māori Leadership - Te Whare Wānanga o   Awanuiārangi
• Programme Manager Mātauranga Māori - Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology,    Marlborough Campus
• Interim Head of Māori Studies Secondary
• Programme co-ordinator  Foundation Studies Tertiary / Wānanga
• Lecturer Māori Studies Tertiary / Wānanga
• Primary & Secondary School Teacher

Service

• Whanau member of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Rakipaewhenua
• Voluntary member of CUAP
• Primary School Trust Board member
• Member of Te Tauihu o Te Waka a Maui cultural committee

Teaching Areas:

Mātauranga Māori, Adult education and development Tertiary programmed development design and evaluation

Current Research Projects:

• PhD - Contemporary Māori Sport and Recreation
• Māori Early Childhood Education - Kohanga Reo
• Strategies for Te Reo Māori language development
• Leef Whanau settlement and distribution patterns