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Professor John Moorfield
Professor in Māori Innovation and Development
Phone: 64 (0)9 921 9999 ext 6602
Email: john.moorfield@aut.ac.nz
Qualifications:
BA (Auck), MEd (Wales), LittD (Otago), DipTchg, RSA/Cambridge CTEFLA
Memberships and Affiliations:
Contracted to advise, check episode scripts, provide helpful learning hints for 100 half-hour episodes of beginner Māori language programmes to go to air on Māori Television in 2008 – Kura Productions $25,000.002008-2012 Te Ipukarea, National Māori Language Institute (Funded by TEC ESI Fund - $1.5 million)
Biography:
John has been Professor in Māori Innovation and Development at Te Ara Poutama, the Faculty of Māori Development since July 2007. He taught for eight years in secondary schools and then for twenty-one years in the Department of Māori at The University of Waikato until 1997 when he moved to the University of Otago and became a Professor in Te Tumu, the School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.
He is a specialist in Māori language, literature and culture, including teaching Māori as a second language. Included in his publications are a series of four graduated textbooks and resources, called Te Whanake, for teaching Māori to teenagers and adults. Study guides for independent study, CDs, videotapes, teachers’ manuals, and a dictionary/index (hard copy and online) accompany the textbooks. The series is now widely used in tertiary institutions for learning Māori.
The dictionary for learners of Māori, Te Aka Māori-English, English-Māori Dictionary and Index accompanies the Te Whanake series. In 2006 this dictionary was made available free online with new headwords and additional meanings continuing to be added each week. Currently a team are working on transferring the exercises of the Te Whanake series to a digital platform to enable access and submission of exercises to tutors for marking via a computer or iPod.
Roles and areas of responsibility:
Postgraduate Board of Studies, Faculty of Applied Humanities
Māori language signage for AUT
Te Ipukarea – National Māori Language Institute
Teaching Areas:
Māori Language; postgraduate supervisionResearch areas:
Research in the field of Māori language, literature, culture, history and second language teaching. The development of online resources to complement the other materials available is a current focus. Other research activities include producing a Māori dictionary of loanwords.Publications:
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake 1 Te Kākano. Second edition. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2001) 192p [ISBN-0-582-54328-2]
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake 2 Te Pihinga. Second edition. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2001) 233p [ISBN-0-582-54327-4]
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake 1 Te Kākano: Pukapuka Tātaki Study Guide. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2002) 97p [ISBN-0-582-54545-5]
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake 2 Te Pihinga: Pukapuka Tātaki Study Guide. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2003) 102p [ISBN-0-582-54570-6]
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake 3 Te Māhuri. Second edition. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2003) 256p [ISBN-0-582-54578-1]
Ka‘ai, T.M., J.C. Moorfield, M.J.P. Reilly & S. Mosely.(eds.) Ki te Whaiao: An Introduction to Māori Culture and Society. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2004) 73-84 [ISBN-0-582-54572-2]
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake 4 Te Kōhure. Second edition. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education N.Z. (2004) 311p [ISBN-0-582-54519-6]
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake 3 Te Māhuri Pukapuka Tātaki. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2004) 120p [ISBN-0-582-54579-X]
Moorfield, J.C. Te Whanake Te Aka Māori-English, English-Māori Dictionary and Index. Auckland, Longman/Pearson Education NZ. (2005) 376p
Moorfield, J.C. Teaching and learning an Indigenous language through its narratives: Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue. July 2006 107-116.
Grants:
2005-2009 FRST Research Grant – Kupu Arotau: Dictionary of Loanwords in the Māori language newspapers (with Professor Tānia Ka‘ai) - $427,000