About the Author

John Moorfield, QSO, BA (Auckland), MEd (Wales) , LittD (Otago), RSA/Cambridge CTEFLA is a professor at Te Ara Poutama, the Faculty of Maori Development and Te Ipukarea, the National Maori Language Institute, at Auckland University of Technology. He moved there in 2007 after eight years teaching in secondary schools at Ngaruawahia High School, Wesley College and Tuakau College, 21 years at The University of Waikato and ten years at the University of Otago.