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The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC; Māori: Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa) is a freely accessible online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials that are held by the Victoria University of Wellington Library.
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 ...
In October 2009, Aotearoa People’s Network Kaharoa won the 3M Award for Innovation in Libraries. [3] In October 2010, Aotearoa People’'s Network Kaharoa won "Best Access Initiative 2010" from the Australia and New Zealand Internet Best Practice Awards. [4] The Māori term kaharoa expresses the idea of a large net.
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.
The Native Schools Code published in 1880 stated that "the Native children must be taught to read and write the English language, and to speak it" and also It is not necessary that teachers should, at the time of their appointment, be acquainted with the Maori tongue; but they may find it desirable to learn enough Māori to enable them to ...
From 1944, as part of the post-Depression era Labour Government's 'Cradle to Grave' social reforms, secondary education was free and made compulsory up to the age of 15. [36] [37] The Thomas Report of 1944 was the document which established a common, core and free secondary curriculum for all. This remained in place for fifty years.
In Māori tradition, Aotearoa was one of the great ocean-voyaging canoes that were used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. Aotearoa was captained by Mokotōrea [ 1 ] or Mokoterea. [ 2 ] It landed at Aotea on the Tasman Sea coast of the Waikato and was buried there.
A korao no New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's first book was written by Anglican missionary Thomas Kendall in 1815, and is the first book written in the Māori language. [1]