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Along with Helen May, she was a primary author of Te Whāriki, the first national New Zealand early childhood curriculum. [4] In the 2002 New Year Honours, Carr was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to early childhood education. [5] She was appointed emerita professor at the University of Waikato in April 2018 ...
New Zealand's European settlers also had to adapt to local circumstances, building with whatever materials were available, and employing tools of poor quality, or even none at all. [10] Settlers tended to use the Maori word whare (house), instead of 'hut', for a temporary or pioneer dwelling.
The then fourth-largest listed company in New Zealand by market capitalisation was taken into private hands by Rank Group Investments Limited, controlled by New Zealand's richest man, Graeme Hart. The lock-in offer of NZ$2.50 per share for International Paper's 50.5% stake valued it at around NZ$1.65 billion, with the company valued at ...
Dame Marie Mildred Clay DBE FRSNZ (/ ˈ m ɑːr i / MAR-ee; [1] née Irwin; 3 January 1926 – 13 April 2007) was a researcher from New Zealand known for her work in educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention.
Kinleith Mill and Processing Complex, Tokoroa, New Zealand New Zealand Forest Products Headquarters, Penrose, Auckland. New Zealand Forest Products (NZFP) was New Zealand's largest industrial company from its creation (following the consolidation of the New Zealand timbermilling sector) in 1936 until the privatisation of state-owned Telecom New Zealand in 1990.
The NewZealand Story (ニュージーランドストーリー, Nyū Jīrando Sutōrī) is a platform game developed and released in arcades by Taito in 1988. The concept and setting were inspired by a holiday trip in New Zealand by one of the Taito programmers.
[50] [51]: pp 4-25 The 'understand' component centres around four big ideas: Māori history is the foundational and continuous history of Aotearoa New Zealand; colonisation and settlement have been central to Aotearoa New Zealand's histories for the past 200 years; the course of Aotearoa New Zealand's histories has been shaped by the use of ...
Dan and Winnie co-authored a publication for schools by the Department of Education School Publications Branch, Writing in New Zealand: The New Zealand Novel (1956, parts 1, 2). Chris Laidlaw , who used to drink with Davin in Oxford, said there was "an abiding sadness about Dan; a melancholy that sprang, I think, from his frustration at being a ...