Photo caption: Professor E Jayne White and Dr Ngaroma Williams from the Faculty of Education at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, taken on site at Waitarakao during Matariki this year.
Education experts Professor E Jayne White and Dr Ngaroma Williams (Te Arawa | Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga|Ngāti Awa) from Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC), with a wider team of researchers, studied children’s representations of water in three early childhood education sites close to local waterscapes – an estuary, the ocean, and a river. They wanted to understand children’s perspectives on what was happening to these waterscapes.
