Georgina Tuari Marjorie Stewart is a New Zealand academic, and is Professor of MÃÂori Philosophy of Education at the Auckland University of Technology. She is one of a small number of MÃÂori-speaking qualified mathematics and science teachers.
Stewart studied chemistry at the University of Auckland, completing a Master of Science degree in 1982, followed by a Diploma of Teaching from the Auckland College of Education in 1991. She taught science, pà «taiao (science within a MÃÂori framework), mathematics and te reo MÃÂori in schools in Auckland and WhangÃÂrei.
Stewart completed a PhD titled Kaupapa MÃÂori Science at the University of Waikato in 2007. She spent six years lecturing at the University of Auckland before she joined the faculty of Auckland University of Technology in 2016, rising to full professor in 2023.
Stewart has received two Marsden grants, the first a three-year Fast Start grant on "Maori-medium educational scholarship" in 2014, to research the use of te reo MÃÂori for university-level teaching, scholarship and research. In 2021, she was awarded a full grant titled "MÃÂori Flexible Learning Spaces (FLS) for supporting MÃÂtauranga MÃÂori and biculturalism in schools", an empirical study of flexible learning spaces in MÃÂori-identity schools involving a national survey of schools, interviews and ethnography.
Stewart is a member of the MÃÂori philosophy group, alongside Garrick Cooper, Carl Mika, Te Kawehau Hoskins, and Brendan Hokowhitu. The group describe themselves as "critical MÃÂori scholars, thinkers and activists across several universities and disciplines, all interested in contributing to a more intentional discussion about, and practising of MÃÂori philosophy, such as MÃÂori forms of thought, critique and scholarship".
Stewart published the book MÃÂori Philosophy: Indigenous thinking from Aotearoa in 2021, and was lead editor for Writing for Publication: Liminal reflections for academics also published in 2021. Stewart is co-editor in chief of the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, an associate editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Educational Philosophy and Theory, and on the editorial board of Curriculum Matters.
Stewart affiliates with NgÃÂti Kura, NgÃÂpuhi-nui-tonu, Pare Hauraki iwi.