Professor Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa) has been the only Māori Law Faculty staff member at the University of Otago since 1999. She has designed a new experience of learning law that brings into the classroom Māori experiences of the law, Māori relationships with land, and Māori challenges for change.
Jacinta Ruru, wearing “Rauaroha”, the korowai that is presented every year to the winner of the Supreme Award at the Ako Aotearoa National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards. Photo: Mark Cubey
This week she won the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award, and a Sustained Excellence Award in the Kaupapa Māori category, at the National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards run by Ako Aotearoa.
Kim Hill talked with her about her innovative teaching practices.
