Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 11, 2016 19:10:10 GMT 12
TAINUI WRITES HISTORY LESSONS
The government may not be interested in making sure young New Zealanders know their history, but one tribe is determined schoolchildren in its rohe learn about the events that have shaped their social and cultural landscape.
Waikato Tainui chief executive Parekawhia McLean says the iwi will this month sign a partnership agreement with 14 secondary schools in Waikato and South Auckland setting mutual education objectives.
The Education Ministry has ruled out making the New Zealand wars of the 19th century part of the curriculum, because they say schools must be free to choose what they teach.
Ms McLean says the iwi will make that choice easier.
" We’re developing a resource which we hope to launch in partnership with our Kawenata Schools, which will be used for curricula, so it will be our own Waikato Tainui raupatu, Kingitanga korero which those schools will then use in their own history curricula, social studies and so on, so we're not waiting for the government, we're getting on with it," she says.
Parekawhia McLean says more than 80 percent of Waikato Tainui children will go through mainstream secondary schools, so that’s where the effort needs to go to lift achievement.
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The government may not be interested in making sure young New Zealanders know their history, but one tribe is determined schoolchildren in its rohe learn about the events that have shaped their social and cultural landscape.
Waikato Tainui chief executive Parekawhia McLean says the iwi will this month sign a partnership agreement with 14 secondary schools in Waikato and South Auckland setting mutual education objectives.
The Education Ministry has ruled out making the New Zealand wars of the 19th century part of the curriculum, because they say schools must be free to choose what they teach.
Ms McLean says the iwi will make that choice easier.
" We’re developing a resource which we hope to launch in partnership with our Kawenata Schools, which will be used for curricula, so it will be our own Waikato Tainui raupatu, Kingitanga korero which those schools will then use in their own history curricula, social studies and so on, so we're not waiting for the government, we're getting on with it," she says.
Parekawhia McLean says more than 80 percent of Waikato Tainui children will go through mainstream secondary schools, so that’s where the effort needs to go to lift achievement.
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