2014/01/01 by Kay Morris Matthews, Jonathan Mané-Wheoki · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Education Systems and Policy #Gender studies #Historical Education Studies Worldwide #Indigenous #Sister #Sociology #Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
paper · doi:10.1057/9781137303523_5
openalex publication_date 2014/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Māori women educational leaders who networked internationally between 1900 and 1960 were rare. This chapter focuses upon the first Māori woman to do so, Bessie (Wene) Te Wenerau Grace (1889–1944). Highlighted here are the cultural, institutional and transnational boundaries that Wene Grace had to cross within New Zealand, England and Australia. The questions the chapter seeks to answer are: what opportunities led to her success as an Indigenous educational leader within girls’ schools on both sides of the world? In what ways did Wene Grace mediate her Māori and her Pakeha (New Zealand European) worlds at a time when racial discrimination abounded? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.