Teaching young people hope
He Kaupapa Tūmanako/Project Hope was launched in 2020.
What gives you hope? That is the question He Kaupapa Tūmanako/Project Hope, a course developed by Massey sociologists, has been asking secondary school students.
He Kaupapa Tūmanako/Project Hope asks, “What does hope look like in a Covid world?” to harness the voices and aspirations of young people in ways that develop their leadership skills and a hopeful vision of their future.
Dr Alice Beban is one of the course teachers, and says it is a particularly important project, “as young New Zealanders are feeling increasingly hopeless about the prospects of growing up in a world transformed by climate change, Covid, and inequality.”
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Associate Professor Krushil Watene.
When Associate Professor Krushil Watene, Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua o Orākei, Tonga, got the news that she had been accepted into the year-long international leadership programme, Homeward Bound, she admits she was both “thrilled and terrified”.
Dr Watene, a philosopher in the School of Humanities Media and Creative Communication, was one of a hundred women chosen from a pool of 376 applicants.
Dr Watene originally heard about the programme from colleague Dr Priscilla Wehi (Cilla) who attended the programme in 2017. “To be honest I didn’t feel I had much of a chance of being accepted as it’s for women with a background in STEMM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine).