Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 12, 2018 16:16:53 GMT 12
EDUCATION STEREOTYPES HOLDING BACK MAORI
Hana O’Regan was a keynote speaker at this week’s CORE Education conference in Auckland.
"We were absolutely deliberately specifically excluded from participation in further education from 1869. Laws were passed that forbid the teaching of academic subjects in native schools because we were being too successful and what happened was our people were subjected to these negative images of ourselves as learners so much that we ended up taking them on board," Ms O’Regan says.....
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Hana O’Regan was a keynote speaker at this week’s CORE Education conference in Auckland.
"We were absolutely deliberately specifically excluded from participation in further education from 1869. Laws were passed that forbid the teaching of academic subjects in native schools because we were being too successful and what happened was our people were subjected to these negative images of ourselves as learners so much that we ended up taking them on board," Ms O’Regan says.....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjAzMzE/National%20News/Education-stereotypes-holding-back-Maori