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Literacy & Communication and Maths Strategy, published by the government in March 2022, noted that key to the refresh was ensuring literacy and communication and numeracy demands were more explicit within the New Zealand curriculum, [139] but two academics claimed this strategy document did not identify the strategies necessary to meet the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
It was the first case in New Zealand of evidence of a publication's literary merit being heard in court. [51] For books banned during World War II, see § World War II (1939–1945). 1944 Forever Amber: Kathleen Winsor: Novel Customs Department 1945 Unrestricted Banned by Minister of Customs Walter Nash for giving undue prominence to sex.
Susan Elaine Sandretto is an American–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in working with teachers to develop critical literacy in primary and secondary school pupils. Sandretto also works on unintended consequences of educational policy, such as changes to active transport.
The Ohio State University board of trustees approved the Marie Clay Endowed Chair in Reading Recovery and Early Literacy on 4 February 2005. [15] In 2017 Clay was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contribution of women to knowledge in New Zealand. [16]
In the 1850s a Māori trade school was established at Te Awamutu by John Gorst to teach Māori practical skills associated with European-style farming, [11] but in 1863 was burnt down by Rewi Maniapoto in the early stages of New Zealand Wars. [12] Teaching by missionaries in Native schools were in Māori between 1815 and 1900.
After Reading Recovery was removed from the curriculum in many Australian schools, [6] its utility has been questioned by researchers and policy makers in New Zealand as well. [8] By 2019, this had led to reduction in use of Reading Recovery in New Zealand's public schools, and toward a greater emphasis on phonics-based instruction.
His Penguin History of New Zealand was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004 and was named by The New Zealand Herald in 2009 as the best book of the preceding decade. [ 69 ] Recent essay collections by Asian New Zealand writers include All Who Live on Islands (2019) by Rose Lu and Small Bodies of Water (2021) by Nina Mingya Powles .