Capacity Development Processes within a Social Movement: Pakeha Treaty Workers' Movement

摘要

This article considers capacity development processes within the movement of non-indigenous people who support indigenous sovereignty in flotearoa/New Zealand. Based on action research by a movement member, it explores if and houj learning contributesto the overall capacity development of the movement. The research focused on learning uuith regard to the relationship-based practice of uuorking uuith Maori activists. It highlights the unintentional, informal and embedded nature of this learning. While individuals were engaged in ongoing learning, there was limited sharing of learning uuithin the movement. In exploring the reasons for this, the complexity of facilitating capacity development uuith regard to relationship-based practice becomes evident. Capacity development through learning uuithin this social movement uuas largely unintentional. Tujo intentional processes are identified as being important means of facilitating capacity development uuithin a social movement: the informal process of intergenerational questioning and the structured process of action research.