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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 ...
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. It was named the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre until October 2012. [1]
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.
Te Takanga o Te Wā is a new strand in the Māori-medium curriculum, Te Matauranga o Aotearoa, [131] [132] which recognised that students explore history by learning about themselves and connections to the world, "to understand their own identity as Māori in Aotearoa".
The mission schools struggled to conduct all teaching in English, and many continued to teach in Māori. [7] The Roman Catholic St Joseph's Māori Girls' College was established by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in 1867. The New Zealand Wars caused many of the mission schools to close. [7]
Tame introduces The New Zealand Wars / Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa as a "resource for students" created by Vincent O'Malley to address this. In the interview, O'Malley notes that the teaching about the New Zealand Wars is seen as a "contentious and potentially divisive" and some schools can avoid the topic because of the structure of the curriculum ...
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]
The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) is a major Christian denomination in New Zealand. A part of the Reformed tradition , it is the largest Presbyterian denomination in New Zealand, [ 3 ] and known for its relatively progressive stance on doctrine and social issues in comparison with smaller Presbyterian churches in the country.