Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Sustainability and Biculturalism: Their Interrelationships and Impacts
Otago Polytechnic and Te Pūkenga
This course examined theories of sustainability and biculturalism, and their interconnectedness. It directly compared an Iwi Māori perspective of people, place, and identity with deconstruction of the learners own cultural identity to uncover a shared bicultural space. It examined a central concept of sustainability "meet people's needs" through this new bicultural lens and learners applied their new insights to a real world project.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Kerrie Hodgson
Global Engagement Specialist
Otago Polytechnic
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect critically on the influence of people, place, and identity in the development of a cultural construct within the context of sustainability and biculturalism.
- Explore the interconnectedness of social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of sustainability.
- Evaluate a sustainability problem in a bicultural context.
Syllabus
- Sustainability concepts and definitions
- Cultural constructs and deconstruction
- An Iwi Māori perspective: place, identity, and practice
- Meeting people’s needs in a bicultural space
Issued on 4th March 2022
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