He mauri, he Māori: Te iho, te moemoea, te timatanga ō mātou haerenga ki Te Ao Tūroa: Our vision and beginnings of a journey into Te Ao Tūroa (the world in front of us) in educational psychology

For the last three years we have been engaged in a journey of reflection, review, and renewal. Here we share the beginnings of our journey as a professional education programme and our moemoea (vision) for establishing culturally appropriate professional practice in educational psychology. We include discussion on how we support our intern psychologists to review and plan their own development in order to best engage with and support ākonga (teachers and learners) and whānau. As a bicultural country with an increasing body of psychological research based in te ao Māori (a Māori worldview) and carried out through kaupapa Māori (Māori approaches) Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) presents a unique context for the practice of educational and school psychology related to learning and teaching.