ABSTRACT
In exploring the metaphor of hospitality to understand the ethical responsibilities of counselling in a postcolonial nation, this chapter describes a particular pedagogy of place. The setting is counselor education at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. The place is Maniaroa marae, a Māori, First Nation, venue where hospitality makes possible radical forms of learning and teaching. The chapter describes in some detail how hospitality produces learning and teaching in this particular place. It shows how, in responding to the hospitality offered in Maniaroa marae, students and staff experience a call to engage deeply with the implications of colonization, including by each locating themselves in historical, social, and political relations. Three student stories illustrate these processes playing out, expressing social justice in action in the offering and witnessing of accounts that produce ethical subjectivity.
