Heke Te Rangakura - Kaiwhakaako

The aim of the Heke Te Rangakura ? Kaiwhakaako programme is to provide the student with the foundation knowledge and attitudes needed to access and impart ?taonga tuku iho?, as drawn from the study of Iwi/Hapu values, knowledge and institutions, in a way that is consistent with the notion of a Maori world view curriculum and its application in the Kaupapa Maori educational context. It also aims to develop in the student the proficiency to successfully administer the delivery of curriculum as it applies to the tikanga Pakeha primary school sector.

Te Wānanga o Raukawa is a tikanga Māori tertiary education provider with its main campus based in Ōtaki, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Hailed at the time as the 'smallest university in the world' Te Wānanga o Raukawa was established by the Raukawa Marae Trustees in 1981 with only two students. 

 A special and unique place of learning, Te Wānanga o Raukawa has become recognised over the last 30 years as an opportunity for all to learn within a tikanga Māori community under the principles of the iwi development strategy, Whakatupuranga Rua Mano: Generation 2000.

Whakatupuranga Rua Mano captured the health and wellbeing aspirations of the ART Confederation of Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Ati Awa ki Whakarongotai and Ngāti Raukawa ki te tonga in the lower North Island of Aotearoa. These are the founding iwi of Te Wānanga o Raukawa.