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Ko te pūtake o nga rārangi kōrero e whai ake nei, nāku i kauhau ki te Huinga Matawhanui i tenei tau. Ki ōku nei whakaaro, mehemea ki te ahu whakamua tātou, me ū tonu ki ngā mātauranga e rua - ngā mātauranga Māori me ngā mātauranga Pākehā hoki. Ahakoa he Pākehā hoki te āhuatanga o ngā whare wānanga, ko te tumanako o ngā tauira Māori, me ō rātou whānau, e kore te roopu kaiako Māori e waiho i nga kaupapa Māori e pā ana ki ngā ākoranga me ngā mahi rangahau. Ko tēnei te wā o te ao hurihuri, te wa o te ao whānui, te wā o te ao Māori. Mā tātou tonu eraranga nga kāwai maha, ki te whakakotahi i te korowai mātauranga.
"Rukuhia te mātauranga ki tōna hōhonutanga me tōna
whānuitanga."

This paper is drawn from a keynote address given at the 1995
Matawhānui Conference. The paper discusses the position of
Māori academics concerned with the advancement of knowledge and understanding for a dual purpose, for Maori development and for general educational progress. The tertiary post reform environment as a further influence on Māori educational development provides the current context for teaching, learning and research within the university.
For those whose work is situated upon the landscape of
mainstream academic organisations, the task of finding the space on that terrain to be Maori, to stay Maori but yet to use the 'tools of the pākehā to the best advantage for Māori is a major challenge. The role of Māori within and beyond the halls of academia forms the basis of this paper.