Staff Members | Kaimahi

David McKay joined CSAFE as a PhD candidate with Otago University’s Geography Department in 2008. He is associated with CSAFE’s Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai.

A significant lack of robust Maori cultural perspectives is understood or represented in New Zealand’s environmental education policy or practice (Chapman& Eammes, 2007).

David McKay seeks to identify and describe how Environmental Education is conceptualised and practiced amongst New Zealand Maori through his PhD research, with the objective of helping facilitate meaningful integration of indigenous understandings in environmental education policy and practices in New Zealand.

David is an experienced Environmental Educator and Advisor, Project Manager, Designer, Builder, Horticulturalist and Teacher.

His academic background spans Environmental Education (M.App.Sc, Lincoln University), Antarctica Studies (P.G.Cert.Ant.Stud, University of Canterbury), Wildlife Conservation Management (P.G.Dip.Res.Stud, Lincoln University), Parks and Amenity Design (Dip.P,R&T.M, Lincoln University), and Education (Dip.Teach, Christchurch College of Education).