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Huia Jahnke

b. 1950

New Zealand Indigenous education academic

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Born 1950. Huia Jahnke is a New Zealand academic.

Huia Jahnke, sometimes known as Huia Tomlins-Jahnke, is a New Zealand academic. She is Māori, of Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Toa Rangātira, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Hine descent and as of 2018 is a full professor of Māori and indigenous education at Massey University.

After a master's degree in education and a PhD at Massey University she joined the staff and rose to full professor and head of the school of education.

Jahnke is married to Bob Jahnke, a professor in the art faculty at Massey.

Selected works Tomlins-Jahnke, Huia, and Julia Taiapa. "Maori research." Social science research in New Zealand: Many paths to understanding (1999): 39–50. Tomlins-Jahnke, Huia. "Towards a secure identity: Maori women and the home-place." In Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 503–513. Pergamon, 2002. Tomlins-Jahnke, Huia, and Annemarie Gillies. "Indigenous innovations in qualitative research method: Investigating the private world of family life." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 11, no. 4 (2012): 498–512. Tomlins-Jahnke, Huia. "Towards a theory of mana wahine." He Pukenga Korero 3, no. 1 (2013). Tomlins-Jahnke, Huia, "The place of cultural standards in indigenous education." MAI Review LW 1, no. 1 (2008): 11. Tomlins-Jahnke, Huia, and Mulholland, Malcolm (2011). Eds. Mana Tangata: Politics of Empowerment. Wellington: Huia.

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Born
1950
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Education
Massey University
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Full professor
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Massey University
Also known as
Huia Tomlins-Jahnke

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New Zealand Indigenous education academic

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Huia Jahnke was born in 1950.

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· Wikidata: Q48688264

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