NZQA registered unit standard
23007 version 2
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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of carving designs and their meaning
Level
1
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate
knowledge of carving designs and their meaning.
Classification
Whakairo > Te Ara Tauira Whakairo
Available grade
Achieved, Merit, and Excellence
Criteria for Merit
Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of carving designs
and their meaning.
Criteria for Excellence
Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of carving designs and
their meaning.
Entry information
Recommended skills
and knowledge
It is recommended that people undertaking this standard
consider working towards standards at Level 1 or above from
the subfield Reo Māori.
Explanatory notes
1
Guidelines for Tutors
Conventions – established procedures, in making art works that use particular
techniques or processes to represent, organise or interpret ideas
Design elements – the basic qualities of two and three-dimensional compositions (eg
line, point, tone, texture, colour, form or mass, shape, space).
Māori art conventions – the established application of design elements and principles
employed by Māori in making art works (eg tone is absent from pre-European Māori
art practice). Māori art conventions are intimately associated with Māori terms
relevant to techniques, tools, materials, processes and procedures (eg ngao pae –
an adzing technique, whao – a chisel, muka – processing flax fibre, whakairo rākau –
traditional Māori wood carving, karakia – incantation.); therefore, familiarity with the
Māori language is a critical element in the practice and study of Māori.
Experience – learning experience should be experiential (involving all the sense) and
experimental across a range of whakairo practices using a range of whakairo media.
Meaning – in this context refer to the interpretation of characteristics aligned to valid
Māori narratives.
NZQA Māori Qualifications Services
SSB Code 194
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
23007 version 2
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Learning should involve the application of basic operational knowledge using readily
available information to generate expressive responses to experiences.
Learning should be teacher guided.
3
Demonstration of a comprehensive knowledge of carving designs and their meaning
will be evidenced through:
- explaining the origins, meaning, and kaupapa of the designs.
4
Demonstration of an extensive knowledge of carving designs and their meaning will
be evidenced through:
- analysing the links between historical stories, and the meaning and kaupapa of
the designs.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of carving designs and their meaning.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Demonstration includes a description of the way ideas and processes show
meaning in whakairo.
given Māori images and objects;
evidence of three is required.
Range
Planned review date
31 December 2020
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
21 May 2010
31 December 2016
Review
2
21 January 2016
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0082
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
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NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
NZQA Māori Qualifications Services
SSB Code 194
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
23007 version 2
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Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the NZQA Māori Qualification Services mqs@nzqa.govt.nz if you wish to
suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
NZQA Māori Qualifications Services
SSB Code 194
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016