Greetings from Aotearoa - New Zealand

Currently I am engaged in the final stages of my Master of Social Work degree. My question is "Matua Whangai - Can we invigorate and important social work concept?" Which by its very nature as a question begs reflection upon the sorts of research methods discussed here. For me however I've arrived at this late in the piece and it will take some going back over the experiences of the last 2 years with my students. Together we have been engaged in this process of co-creation and performance no so much as film of theatre etc but in the performative drama of social work action.

There is congruent parallel relationship between these performative methods and the indigenous aspects of Maori and other first nations people - whose law making and social is in performance rather than in writing and text. See the discussion of lawmaking and performative cultures by Alex Frame and Paul Meredith on the te Matahauariki Institute ?website.

Should any read this comment I can also be contacted at kim.murphy-stewart@twoa.ac.nz - which is Te Wananga o Aotearoa one of the three indigenous universities in New Zealand where I teach on the social work degree - bi-culturalism in practice.