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The Tribunal claim stated that "the history of Aotearoa is a taonga [treasure] under the terms of the Treaty of Waitangi and that its teaching must be given priority over the teaching of the history of any other country", to which the student added: "it is my right as a person of Māori descent, as indeed I believe it is the right of all ...
Te Whāriki is a bi-cultural curriculum that sets out four broad principles, a set of five strands, and goals for each strand.It does not prescribe specific subject-based lessons, rather it provides a framework for teachers and early childhood staff (kaiako) to encourage and enable children in developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, learning dispositions to learn how to learn.
Born Huhana Susana Tetane Perez, 16 November 1945, on the Tokelau atoll of Nukunonu, she is the youngest child of Ateliano and Malia Sei Perez. [1] In 1964, Lemisio was part of a group from the Tokelau Islands who came to live in New Zealand as part of the 'Government Resettlement Scheme of Tokelau to New Zealand' and by 1975 she had settled in Petone, Lower Hutt.
O'Malley has acknowledged the significance of the day of commemoration of the victims of the New Zealand Wars and the increased focus on teaching the country's history in a revised curriculum [8] and co-authored another article which holds that there is a "greater willingness to face up to the bitter and bloody realities of these conflicts ...
[6] [7] Williams was the inaugural president of the organisation and stayed in the role for nine years. [8] In 1978, Radio New Zealand’s established a Māori station, Te Reo o Aotearoa, and Williams was the inaugural general manager. [4] At Aotearoa Radion he held the role general manager. [5]
Jenkins, Kuni, and Tania Ka’ai. "Maori education: A cultural experience and dilemma for the state–a new direction for Maori society." The politics of learning and teaching in Aotearoa–New Zealand (1994): 79–148. Ka’ai, Tania. "Te hiringa taketake: Mai i te Kohanga Reo i te kura= Maori pedagogy: te Kohanga Reo and the transition to school.
In addition to winning the Prime Minister's supreme award for tertiary teaching, [9] Ruru has also been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2017, Ruru was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's " 150 women in 150 words ", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand. [ 12 ]
Te Takanga o Te Wā is a new strand in the Māori-medium curriculum, Te Matauranga o Aotearoa, [128] [129] which recognised that students explore history by learning about themselves and connections to the world, "to understand their own identity as Māori in Aotearoa".