Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 22, 2019 17:11:25 GMT 12
PUSH TO TEACH NEW ZEALAND HISTORY IN SCHOOLS BECOMES MORE DESPERATE
New Zealand history is a story full of blood and betrayal - but even teachers in our state schools admit they don't know enough.
And that's where Tamsin Hanly comes in. She's mortgaged her house to create Critical Histories of Aotearoa, a teaching programme she sells to schools.
"We were discussing that the early settlers, the Māori people, were actually scientists and they were mathematical and the way we perceive the intelligence they had is completely different to what the reality is," Gilmore said.
"There are actually three versions of the Treaty - the English version, the Māori version, then the Māori version translated into English, and they're quite different. So what everyone thought they'd signed wasn't actually the same," Cormack says......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/04/push-to-teach-new-zealand-history-in-schools-becomes-more-desperate.html
New Zealand history is a story full of blood and betrayal - but even teachers in our state schools admit they don't know enough.
And that's where Tamsin Hanly comes in. She's mortgaged her house to create Critical Histories of Aotearoa, a teaching programme she sells to schools.
"We were discussing that the early settlers, the Māori people, were actually scientists and they were mathematical and the way we perceive the intelligence they had is completely different to what the reality is," Gilmore said.
"There are actually three versions of the Treaty - the English version, the Māori version, then the Māori version translated into English, and they're quite different. So what everyone thought they'd signed wasn't actually the same," Cormack says......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/04/push-to-teach-new-zealand-history-in-schools-becomes-more-desperate.html