The research on which this thesis is based involves both a private narrative and a public
narrative. It traces a personal history in order that the story of Cultural Safety can be told and
the history, theory and the future direction can be gathered into one qualitative work. The
work is divided into three sections. The first is entitled, Ko Wai Matou? The Private Narrative.
This section seeks to explore the historical, social, educational, physical, emotional, political
and moral influences and ephiphanies which brought about the personality which …