Tutere Henare was born in Te Araroa and was educated at Whakaangiangi Primary School, Rerekohu High School and Te Aute College. He continued his studies at Auckland Training College. He spent twenty years in primary teaching and was one of the first itinerant teachers of Māori. In 1977 he began teaching at Hilary College and was Head of the Māori Department. In 1987 he became Head of Māori at Otahuhu College and continued in that position for seven years up until his retirement. Henare was later called back to the primary school context as an itinerant Māori teacher and worked with the contributing schools and an intermediate school in Panmure. Henare composed haka and waiata for primary school Māori culture clubs and facilitated in-service courses for Māori language teachers. He published a Māori language study book entitled Kōrero Māori Book 1 and began work on Book 2 of Kōrero Māori.
Biographical sources
- Email correspondence from Dennie Davidson, 12 May 2004.
- Correspondence and phone conversation with Tutere Henare, November 1992, and 5 August 1998.
- Kōrero Māori Book 1: Conversational Māori. Auckland, N.Z.: Longman Paul, 1987.
Other
- Kōrero Māori Book 1: Conversational Māori. Auckland, N.Z.: Longman Paul, 1987.
- A Māori language study book with an emphasis on oral Māori. The book contains patterning and repetition geared to primary school and intermediate school students.