![]() Smith is the Pro-Vice Chancellor Māori, Dean of the School of Māori and Pacific Development and Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato. This work is considered a major contribution to research methods in social justice research. Smith is the author of Decolonizing Methodologies ( Zed Books, 1999, 2012, and 2021), a critical analysis of the role of Western scholarly research played in the process of colonization of indigenous cultures. She was a member of the Māori political group Ngā Tamatoa while a university student. ![]() Her 1996 thesis was titled Ngā aho o te kakahu matauranga: the multiple layers of struggle by Maori in education. Smith earned her BA, MA (hons), and PhD degrees at the University of Auckland. The daughter of Sidney Moko Mead, she affiliates to the Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou iwi. Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith CNZM (née Mead born 1950), previously a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, is now Distinguished Professor at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. ![]() Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Paulo Freire ![]() Ngā aho o te kakahu matauranga: the multiple layers of struggle by Maori in education. (1996). ![]()
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