Expertise

Jodie Ngahuia Mason is an emerging kairangahau and education practitioner whose mahi spans education, social services, quality practice and kaupapa Māori. Raised and educated in Murupara, her approach to rangahau is grounded in whakapapa, whanaungatanga, service and the people and hāpori that have shaped her.

Jodie brings approximately 17 years of experience across wharekura and English medium education, holding a range of teaching and leadership responsibilities, alongside nearly eight years within the social services sector. These experiences have strengthened her commitment to relationships, collective wellbeing and mana centric practice.

In her current role as a Quality Analyst at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Jodie contributes to quality review and evaluative practice by weaving together evidence, stakeholder experiences, and mātauranga Māori alongside organisational and regulatory requirements, while remaining grounded in whakapapa, whanaungatanga, and shared uara.

Her work has deepened her interest in how quality is not only measured and demonstrated, but understood and experienced by people in practice. This reflects the approach recognised in her quality review mahi, where relationship building, robust analysis and mātauranga Māori were woven together, while meeting organisational and regulatory expectations. 

As the recipient of the 2026 Dr Morehu McDonald Residency, Jodie's current rangahau explores how quality in education might be reimagined through a kaupapa Māori lens: as a relational, values led practice grounded in lived experiences, relationships, responsibilities and aspirations.

Through this kaupapa, she is working toward a relational conceptual framework for quality in Aotearoa education that seeks to uphold the mana, identities, experiences and aspirations of tauira, whānau, hapū, iwi and hāpori.