Pūkengatanga 

Neke atu i te 25 tau kua whakaako a Te Mihinga i te reo Māori me ngōna tikanga, kōhungahunga mai, pakeke mai, puta i ngā tūmomo akomanga katoa. Hei tāna, “Ko tōku reo tōku oranga.”   

Kātahi anō ia ka wehe i tōna tūranga hei Pou Ārahi i academyEX ki te whai i tana tohu kairangi. I reira, i whakangungua e ia ngōna hoamahi me ngāna ākonga ki ngā tini āhuatanga o tōna ao Māori, arā, ko te reo Māori, tikanga, karakia, waiata, ngā āhuatanga o te Kaupapa Māori, hautūtanga Māori, mātauranga Māori me te whakaako i te tauira Māori i te kura. Nāna hoki i kōkiri Te Ara Kōtihi, te rautaki ako o te kamupene whānui. He kaiārahi hoki ia mō ngā ākonga tohu paerua Māori.  

Nō mua mai, he kaihuawaere a Te Mihinga i Tātai Aho Rau, CORE Education. Nō konā, i huakina ai te tatau ki ngā rawenga o te hangarau matihiko. He whakangungu kaiako kura Māori te mahi kia taea e rātou te whakaako mā ngā pūrere matihiko hou. I tīmata hoki a Te Mihinga ki te whakamāori i ngā kupu hangarau matihiko hou kia toitū tonu te reo i ngā kura. Ko te tārai rauemi ako mō ngā kura Māori hoki tana mahi i reira. I ākona e ia ngā pūkenga whakaputa rauemi nōna i Huia Publishers hei ringa tārai rauemi.  

Hāunga atu, ko ngāna mahi ngaio i roto i ngā tau, he kaiwhakaari, he kaipapāho, he kaiwhakamāori, he kaituhi, he kaiarotake hōtaka, he kaiwhakamahere rautaki reo mō Kotahi Mano Kāika anō hoki.  

Putanga Matua 

Dell, K., Komene, T. M., Tassell-Matamua, N., Pomare, P., & Masters-Awatere, B. (2022). Te ara o te moa: Patua te ngangara e kai ana i nga rakau taketake o Aotearoa. MAI, 34. 

Hotere-Barnes, Alex, Wawaro Te Whaiti, me Te Mihinga Komene. (2017). Te arotahi ki ngā rauemi ako ka whakaputaina ki ngā akomanga arareo Māori: Ngoikoretanga, ngā ahuatanga haere ake nei? He Pepa Whakarāpopotonga.  

Komene, T.M. Kua tāmia te reo Māori e ngā hangarau whakawhiti kōrero. In Knowledge Makers  Journal. 2021; 6 https://knowledgemakers.trubox.ca/knowledge-makers/knowledge-makers-journal/previous-volumes/current-volume/ 

Komene, Te Mihinga. (2022). Ngā Tāmitanga o te Reo Māori i te Ao Matihiko. [Tuhingaroa Tohu Paerua mataiti]. Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. 

Komene, Te Mihinga. (2015). Te Rau. Te Whanganui-a-Tara: nā Huia Publishers mō Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga. 

Komene, Te Mihinga. (2014). Kimihia. Te Whanganui-a-Tara: nā Huia Publishers mō Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga. 

Thorn R, Komene TM, Roberts J, Parsons D. Enablers and barriers for successful completion of study identified by Māori students on a postgraduate programme for in-service teachers. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 2022;18(1):54-66. doi:10.1177/11771801221084364 

• Te Toi Matariki mō te Tohu Paerua, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato 

• PhD Research Grant, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka 

• Marsden Funding Full Proposal, Māori wellbeing and te reo Māori, 2023-2025 

• Research & Enterprise Study Award, Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, The University of Waikato, 2021 

• Golden Key International Honour Society, The University of Waikato, 2021 

• Knowledge Makers Program, Thompson Rivers University, 2021 

• Te Toa Reo Māori Mātauranga (ā-Reo Māori), Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, 2016. Specialising in the revitalisation and normalisation of digital technology & social media terms in mainstream 

• Toa, Te Kura Pounamu (Te Reo Māori), LIANZA, for Kimihia, 2015