Te Mauri Pakeaka was an innovative education programme which existed in the 1970s up to 1988. It provided a setting where Māori and Pākehā could learn about Māori arts and culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Te Powhiri : an invitation to come in -- 2. Sifting images, weaving words : how we wrote this book, and why -- 3. Beginnings : Arnold's story : learning the talk and the walk -- 4. And then a ngarara bit the taniwha's tail : the workshop at Te Pae o Hauraki -- 5. Bricks, walls, and neat tidy packages : a school-based course in Rotorua -- 6. Untangling threads of stories : connections and reconnections : the Waitangi experience -- 7. Tukutuku, tapa and tivaevae : Maraeroa -- where multicultural meets bicultural -- 8. Stories whispered by the land : Parua Bay and Te Kaha -- 9. Mana tangata, mana whenua : the workshop at Wairaka and the lines of confiscation -- 10. The gaining of social currency : building capacity in Waikato -- 11. Janinka's story : becoming involved -- 12. When the bellbird sings : the forum north experience -- 13. Postscript : the third space today.

"Te Mauri Pakeaka tells the story of Pakeaka, an innovative educational programme and a slowly awakening taniwha. Developed by Arnold Wilson in the late 1970s, Te Mauri Pakeaka offered a 'third space' in which students, teachers and the wider community could create artworks, but it also became a forum for exploring identity, fostering growth and strengthening the meeting-places between Maori and Pakeha"--Jacket.