This is sent as part of an information pack by one of our tertiary institutions seeking workplace experience for their students:
“The cloak of the creator, the cloak of peace has been spread upon us. Ranginui above, Papatūānuku below.
The people in between in the midst of that greatest of things. Love. This is a greeting to you illustrious ones, you students, teachers, principals and all those qualities that distinguish you.”
And from the Ministry of Education website ... note the words "critical consciousness" in this "creation" story:
Summary of Te Hurihanganui: Change Story
We will work alongside communities to support their journey from Te Pō to Te Hurihanganui. Starting with Te Pō, community leaders will strengthen and build reciprocal relationships of mutual trust. They will also build a common base of understanding of kaupapa Māori and critical consciousness to undertake collective planning and action.
The Change Story
Te Pō
Te Pō was a time of unease around existing in darkness. There was potential for change but the atua had to discuss what this could look like and develop a plan for change. Not everyone agreed to the change, but there was sufficient agreement to move towards Te Wehenga.
Te Wehenga
During Te Wehenga the atua put their plans for change into action. This required multiple attempts to separate their parents with each atua having a role. Throughout this time, there was still resistance from some atua. With each attempt, the atua saw a glimpse of the light that could become their new norm – Te Ao Mārama.
Te Ao Mārama
Te Ao Mārama brought a new status quo of light and change. Life in Te Ao Mārama brought new challenges, including the pain that the separation brought Ranginui and Papatūānuku and the ongoing implications of this pain on their children and each other.
Te Hurihanganui
Te Hurihanganui was an act of love to ease the pain of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, but also to maintain the light of Te Ao Mārama. With this action, Te Ao Mārama became more stable, but with the light came the challenges of evolution that are part of Te Ao Hurihuri.
So ... it seems that consciousness of the spirit world is critical to policy design and implementation in New Zealand. I'll bet that most of you did not know that.
Why have those who fought for years (sometimes viciously so) to have the OPTIONAL Bible in Schools Programme removed been so silent on this?
Religion (of whatever form)
and state must never be merged. This always leads to tyranny
... and I mean always.
Caleb Anderson, a graduate history, economics, psychotherapy and theology, has been an educator for over thirty years, twenty as a school principal.
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The Ministry of Education ( i.e. certain officials ) advocates that the Te Ao (Maori world) lens should be the central conduit for Education.
What is the Minister doing about this?
Unfortunately I have been aware of this absolute rubbish and deeply disturbed by it for some years now. I first discovered it in a couple of papers I came across by chance on the Min of Education website. We taxpayers have been paying for the production of this nonsense. Furthermore, this same nonsense is being used to underpin the indoctrination of our school children. It is corrupt. NZ is a secular democracy. This just shouldn’t be happening. We need to clear the swamp. Excellent article Caleb. This issue needs lots of cleansing sunlight.
Please don't misname that perverse organization the Min. of Ed. It has had no intention to educate in the traditional sense and since about the middle of last century has become instead a center for indoctrination into socialism and destruction of real learning for children. This is part of the overall plan to destroy Western Civilization and hence all we value in it. Bad 'education ' can serve as a double whammy in producing indoctrinated and ignorant students dependent on the Socialist.State and complying with all its doctrines.
Any ridiculous idea that pops up like CRT that helps to destroy Western Culture is grabbed and installed into its curriculum. Christianity is part of Western Culture so that obviously must be supplanted by animism and Maori gods. That we are supposed to have a secular school system is clearly irrelevant and no contradiction apparently, to Progressive Education's aim of a materialist , secular and socialist state.
To me our MIn. Of Miseducation and Indoctrination is irredeemable. They have been allowed to have their own way , like petulant children, and nothing can fraught their agenda now.
Many of the most effective teachers I had in my day would struggle to unfathom the above, as I do. An absurd mis direction of ability. Little wonder so many potentially very able teachers shun the profession. Whilst a Maori Studies honours student could probably fathom the above the unfortunately typical maori of limited ability and application would be even more deterred than they now are by basic arithmetic and English at the level aheived by all at pri school decades ago.
Thanks for bringing our attention to this utter tosh. With dismal education outputs spanning years, why does this not surprise me?
First and foremost, Iona Holsted needs to be gone. She is the one who has overseen and signed off on all this crapola and which is so very deeply embedded throughout everything the swamp needs to be drained starting at the top, and not a moment too soon.
But is our Minister up for it? Or is she cut from the same cloth as her boss, who has no intestinal fortitude to do what so patently needs to be done?
I didn't understand a single word of any of that 'change story' nor the bit from the 'information pack' BS.
I'm neither academic or dummkopf but that BS is beyond me.
Teaching of this crap is started at pre-school and reinforced throughout a childs education.
Any educator who buys into this rubbish without coercion should be pitied and removed from office.
Its got to start somewhere.
If there is an allowance made in this country to have Christian schools which operate with different values etc from general schools, then it's time we make the same separation here. Establish 'Te Ao Maori' schools for those who want their kids educated in these spiritual ideas, and leave it out of general public schooling just like all other religious and spiritual ideas are left out.
Secularism is a religion of its own. Like all false religions it doesn't go anywhere good, and all of its followers are in reality miserable. Because we are made to know, love and serve God and cannot be happy without him, in this life or the next.
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