Margie Hohepa

Margie Kahukura Hohepa (born 1960), sometimes Margie Ratapu (which is her married name),

Early life Hohepa was born in Auckland in 1960. She received her primary and secondary education at Matipo Primary in Te Atatū Peninsula, Te Atatū Intermediate, Wainuiomata College, Wellington East Girls' College and Rutherford High School. She studied at the University of Auckland for a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts (Hons) in Education, with the title of her 1990 master's thesis Te Kohanga Reo hei tikanga ako i te reo Maori = Te Kohanga Reo as a context for language learning. She then obtained a Diploma in Teaching from the Auckland Teachers' College. she continued lecturing at Auckland and in Whangarei. In 2010 she moved to an associate professorship at the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.

Selected works Hohepa, Margie Kahukura, Stephen May, and Teresa L. McCarty. "The forum." Journal of language, identity, and Education 5, no. 4 (2006): 293–315. Hohepa, Margie Kahukura. "Educational leadership and Indigeneity: Doing things the same, differently." American Journal of Education 119, no. 4 (2013): 617–631. Hohepa, Margie Kahukura, and Viviane Robson. "Māori and educational leadership: Tū Rangatira." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 4, no. 2 (2008): 20–38. Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, and Margie Kahukura Hohepa. Mana Wahine, Mana Maori: A Case Study. Maori Education Research and Development Unit, Education Department, University of Auckland, 1990. Hohepa, Margie Kahukura. Preferred pedagogies and language interactions in te kohanga reo. Research Unit for Maori Education, University of Auckland, 1993.