Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 16, 2018 16:35:30 GMT 12
DECOLONISING THE CURRICULUM
An Auckland primary school teacher of 25 years, Tamsin Hanley has mortgaged her home to be able to research and produce 'A critical guide to Māori and Pākehā histories', a professional development package aimed at educating teachers about accurate histories of NZ.
"It's giving them local, accurate, decolonised critical histories for them to teach," says Hanley.
Her master's degree research found that some schools aren't teaching accurate histories.
"They teach generally what I call 'standard story' which is a kind of colonial version, like [Captain James] Cook discovered the country and the English Treaty is the [correct] Treaty version and all this stuff which we know now is inaccurate."
Hanley says that under the NZ Curriculum, every school is meant to enact the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. However, she suggests that schools can't honour the Treaty if the teachers don't understand the accurate histories of NZ......
www.maoritelevision.com/news/education/decolonising-curriculum
An Auckland primary school teacher of 25 years, Tamsin Hanley has mortgaged her home to be able to research and produce 'A critical guide to Māori and Pākehā histories', a professional development package aimed at educating teachers about accurate histories of NZ.
"It's giving them local, accurate, decolonised critical histories for them to teach," says Hanley.
Her master's degree research found that some schools aren't teaching accurate histories.
"They teach generally what I call 'standard story' which is a kind of colonial version, like [Captain James] Cook discovered the country and the English Treaty is the [correct] Treaty version and all this stuff which we know now is inaccurate."
Hanley says that under the NZ Curriculum, every school is meant to enact the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. However, she suggests that schools can't honour the Treaty if the teachers don't understand the accurate histories of NZ......
www.maoritelevision.com/news/education/decolonising-curriculum