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  2. Mātauranga Māori - Wikipedia

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    The letter came in response to the proposed inclusion of mātauranga Māori in the school curriculum on equal terms with "other bodies of knowledge", with the authors arguing that mātauranga Māori "falls far short of what can be defined as science itself", and disputing "the notion that science is a Western European invention and itself ...

  3. Listener letter on science - Wikipedia

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    On July 24, 2021, in the context of a review of the secondary school curriculum National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), seven University of Auckland professors and emeriti professors (known informally as the Listener Seven) published a letter titled "In Defence of Science" in the current affairs magazine New Zealand Listener, which generated considerable controversy for ...

  4. Aotearoa New Zealand's histories - Wikipedia

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    In March 2023 two academics from the University of Auckland positioned the new curriculum as an "opportunity to foster inclusive, reflective, informed and critical understandings of local and national pasts and how they connect to our present and orient us to the future – and to each other", but note that teaching such a 'difficult history ...

  5. Ministry of Education (New Zealand) - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry was established as a result of the Picot task force set up by the Labour government in July 1987 to review the New Zealand education system. The members were Brian Picot, a businessman, Peter Ramsay, an associate professor of education at the University of Waikato, Margaret Rosemergy, a senior lecturer at the Wellington College of Education, Whetumarama Wereta, a social researcher ...

  6. Education in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa have eight levels, numbered 1 to 8, and eight major learning areas: English (NZC) or Māori (TMoA), the arts, health and physical education, learning languages (which includes Māori in NZC and English in TMoA), mathematics and statistics, science, social sciences, and technology. [30]

  7. Linda Tuhiwai Smith - Wikipedia

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    Smith saw education as the most important part the Maori struggle for freedom. [6] She was a member of Ngā Tamatoa while a university student. [7] Smith earned her BA, MA (honours), and PhD degrees at the University of Auckland. Her 1996 thesis was titled Ngā aho o te kakahu matauranga: the multiple layers of struggle by Maori in education. [10]

  8. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa - Wikipedia

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    Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is a Māori university and tertiary education provider with over 80 campuses throughout New Zealand.The indigenous-led organisation works towards "whānau transformation through education" [1] including the redevelopment of Māori cultural knowledge and breaking inter-generational cycles of non-participation in tertiary education to reduce poverty and associated social ...

  9. History of education in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Te Takanga o Te Wā is a new strand in the Māori-medium curriculum, Te Matauranga o Aotearoa, [128] [129] which recognised that students explore history by learning about themselves and connections to the world, "to understand their own identity as Māori in Aotearoa". [108]