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I Don't Like Wednesdays
36 pages, Paperback
Published March 31, 2024
About the author
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
22 books93 followersProfessor Smith is Pro Vice-Chancellor Maori with responsibilities for Maori development at the University of Waikato as well as Dean of the School of Maori and Pacific Development and a professor of Education and Maori Development.
Professor Smith has an academic background in education and research and has a long career as an inter-disciplinary scholar. She is well known for her publications, public speaking and research leadership.
Her 1998 book Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples has become a seminal text in indigenous studies. Her other publications canvass a wide range of academic disciplines.
She has worked with a number of Maori scholars most notably her husband Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith. Professor Smith has served on a number of New Zealand's national bodies.
She has been President of NZARE the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, a member of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission, a member of the Health Research Council and Chair of the Maori Health Committee, Chair of the Social Sciences Panel of the Marsden Council and member of the Constitutional Review Panel.
She has also been active in establishing Maori educational initiatives from early childhood to higher education, was an inaugural co-Director of the Maori Research Centre of Excellence, Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga, and is currently the Director of the Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato.
Linda is a daughter, a sister and cousin, a mother and aunt and a grandmother in an extended family.
Professor Smith has an academic background in education and research and has a long career as an inter-disciplinary scholar. She is well known for her publications, public speaking and research leadership.
Her 1998 book Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples has become a seminal text in indigenous studies. Her other publications canvass a wide range of academic disciplines.
She has worked with a number of Maori scholars most notably her husband Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith. Professor Smith has served on a number of New Zealand's national bodies.
She has been President of NZARE the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, a member of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission, a member of the Health Research Council and Chair of the Maori Health Committee, Chair of the Social Sciences Panel of the Marsden Council and member of the Constitutional Review Panel.
She has also been active in establishing Maori educational initiatives from early childhood to higher education, was an inaugural co-Director of the Maori Research Centre of Excellence, Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga, and is currently the Director of the Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato.
Linda is a daughter, a sister and cousin, a mother and aunt and a grandmother in an extended family.
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August 23, 2023
I hardly ever review picture books on here. I read a lot of them for work these days, but sometimes one moves me and I think that other people should know about it, this is one of those books.
A young boy loves school, especially Wednesdays when his big brother Apa and comes to walk him home from school. It seems like all the cool things happen on Wednesdays, there's karate, watching Apa play basketball, there's kapa haka and the walk home from school chatting with Apa. But one Wednesday Apa dies. Now there is no point going to school on a Wednesday, it is the worst day. The boy doesn't want to go to school on Wednesdays anymore.
This is a story of grief, family, of a community pulling together to help this young boy come to terms with the death of his brother. It is told with simple but moving language, the illustrations are beautiful, particularly the expressions on the faces. It says on the back that it "is part of a series about aroha and nurturing the resilience of children who have experienced a traumatic life event. It aims to help adults and children talk about what has happened and support children's well-being"
I loved this book, I passed it around the office and we all had a little moment with it. Highly recommended.
A young boy loves school, especially Wednesdays when his big brother Apa and comes to walk him home from school. It seems like all the cool things happen on Wednesdays, there's karate, watching Apa play basketball, there's kapa haka and the walk home from school chatting with Apa. But one Wednesday Apa dies. Now there is no point going to school on a Wednesday, it is the worst day. The boy doesn't want to go to school on Wednesdays anymore.
This is a story of grief, family, of a community pulling together to help this young boy come to terms with the death of his brother. It is told with simple but moving language, the illustrations are beautiful, particularly the expressions on the faces. It says on the back that it "is part of a series about aroha and nurturing the resilience of children who have experienced a traumatic life event. It aims to help adults and children talk about what has happened and support children's well-being"
I loved this book, I passed it around the office and we all had a little moment with it. Highly recommended.
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