Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 27, 2021 13:58:21 GMT 12
John Robinson: PROPOSED NEW ZEALAND HISTORY CURRICULUM - A CRITICAL APPRAISAL
Maori are just one part – around one sixth – of the people of New Zealand (16.7% of the national population in 2020). The focus of the draft curriculum on only this one group, with the claim that “Maori history forms a continuous thread, directly linking the contemporary world to the past”, denigrates the significance of the experiences of all other New Zealanders. Pupils, of diverse backgrounds in a multicultural society, should all be included, and taught the history of us all – including their own ancestors whether Maori or other.
Maori should stop posturing (yes, I have read He Puapua [1]) and take their place as equals with the rest of us. This ethnic exceptionalism is nonsensical and damaging to our New Zealand community.
The first section in this submission raises basic questions concerning the emphasis on matauranga Maori and the emphasis on oral story-telling rather than written historical accounts. Note is made of the comprehensive cultural Maori transformation around the period 1830-1850, and thereafter, and thus the subsequent uncertainty of what is meant by matauranga Maori, which provides a smokescreen for control by priests of the modern movement, those few who make claim to some hidden understanding – and who must then be employed to provide orders to all others.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/john-robinson-proposed-new-zealand.html
Maori are just one part – around one sixth – of the people of New Zealand (16.7% of the national population in 2020). The focus of the draft curriculum on only this one group, with the claim that “Maori history forms a continuous thread, directly linking the contemporary world to the past”, denigrates the significance of the experiences of all other New Zealanders. Pupils, of diverse backgrounds in a multicultural society, should all be included, and taught the history of us all – including their own ancestors whether Maori or other.
Maori should stop posturing (yes, I have read He Puapua [1]) and take their place as equals with the rest of us. This ethnic exceptionalism is nonsensical and damaging to our New Zealand community.
The first section in this submission raises basic questions concerning the emphasis on matauranga Maori and the emphasis on oral story-telling rather than written historical accounts. Note is made of the comprehensive cultural Maori transformation around the period 1830-1850, and thereafter, and thus the subsequent uncertainty of what is meant by matauranga Maori, which provides a smokescreen for control by priests of the modern movement, those few who make claim to some hidden understanding – and who must then be employed to provide orders to all others.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/john-robinson-proposed-new-zealand.html