Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 16, 2017 18:01:15 GMT 12
WHETU CORMICK – FOCUSING ON MĀORI ACHIEVEMENT
I am pleased about is the way the current administration has shone the spotlight on Māori education. They may have presented us with the wrong solution in that national standards will certainly never assist us in lifting Māori student success rates, but they have challenged us to think hard about how we do improve the learning of our young Māori people.
NZPF, in partnership with Te Akatea, the Māori Principals’ Association focussed their attention on school culture. It was perfectly clear that if our young Māori students were going to succeed they would have to feel comfortable at school. They would have to feel a sense of affiliation – that school was their place and they had a stake in it. School could not feel like a foreign place with foreign beliefs and values. There had to be a cultural match. It was recognised that too many schools were dominated by Pākehā cultural values and beliefs.......
educationcentral.co.nz/opinion-whetu-cormick-focusing-on-maori-achievement/
I am pleased about is the way the current administration has shone the spotlight on Māori education. They may have presented us with the wrong solution in that national standards will certainly never assist us in lifting Māori student success rates, but they have challenged us to think hard about how we do improve the learning of our young Māori people.
NZPF, in partnership with Te Akatea, the Māori Principals’ Association focussed their attention on school culture. It was perfectly clear that if our young Māori students were going to succeed they would have to feel comfortable at school. They would have to feel a sense of affiliation – that school was their place and they had a stake in it. School could not feel like a foreign place with foreign beliefs and values. There had to be a cultural match. It was recognised that too many schools were dominated by Pākehā cultural values and beliefs.......
educationcentral.co.nz/opinion-whetu-cormick-focusing-on-maori-achievement/