Hipkins and the motley crew of the good ship “Incompetence” plumb new depths of hypocrisy with this opinion piece!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/erica-stanford-is-stripping-our-curriculum-of-its-identity-willow-jean-prime/ By Willow Jean Prime
“Our tamariki, our mokopuna – all deserve to explore who they are, to understand the stories of the land they walk on and to hear the honest histories that have shaped all our lives.”
You are so correct Willow Jean; Students do deserve to be taught “honest history.” The problem was, they were not!
“The Aotearoa Histories curriculum served that purpose. It served to give our children a true account of our country’s past and how it might inform our future.”
“When I look at the Government’s proposals, at the mātauranga lost and the stories of our tūpuna wiped and replaced with histories from abroad, I worry that we’re undermining our children’s and country’s potential. I worry whose interests this really serves.”
“The minister has cut te reo Māori words from school books, cut funding to Te Ahu o te Reo Māori for teachers, is scrapping Māori resource teachers and, most recently, decided school boards shouldn’t need to consider Te Tiriti o Waitangi. National is focused on the wrong things. Instead of building our students up to succeed, it is hindering progress.”
If the new curriculum “hindering progress,” what the hell was the old curriculum doing?
Surely the fundamental problem with New Zealand history is that there wasn’t one before 1840.
Maori did not have a written language. They relied on verbally “passing the baton” from one generation to another. Each tribe had its own stories (as distinct from histories) and they are at best unreliable.
In the words of historian Dame Judith Binney, ” Maori history is based on the myth narrative where ancient stories are interwoven with new events to create newer narratives. There is a strong emphasis on enhancing the mana of whanau or hapu rather than explaining historical events in a rational manner”.
Educational progress to Labour and the Greens/Maori Party seems to be to teach our school children an inward looking, ethno-centric education in which treaty indoctrination and equal outcomes replace a knowledge based education where equal opportunity is given to all to prepare for a better future!
The inadequacies of our education system are illustrated by our rapidly falling educational results!
Zealots like Willow Jean would be quite happy for that deterioration to continue as long their ideological incorporation of a localised te reo and mātauranga Māori curriculum, co-designed with input from whānau, hapū, and iwi remained.
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
2 comments:
If you look at any Ethnic Group - Aztec, African, Arabs, Natives across the Pacific (including Hawaii) you will find that -
- in many cases "pen & paper" were non existent
- tribal 'history' was an oral presentation and with the "telling" of that History, words would/could be changed, stories altered an/or embellished
- that the native tribes, learnt to carve, wood in most cases, stone for the Aztec people. Of these there "history" will relate to an occurrence in their tribal past, but as each tribe dies and the newer citizens evolve, the later will not be able to relate to what those carvings mean - if they do, then read the above
- when they met the "white man', the explorer's who sailed the world, tribes would have attempted to emulate what they saw.
Many would succeed, many would fail.
One example I would give are the African-American, of today, even when the opportunities were their, many have failed to accept and/or develop and of those numbers there are many who commit crimes, reside in prison or are the victim of gun crimes by/ from their own people.
In our modern education, it is not The MP's who hinder, but those who are delivering the "package".
The mainland / continental ancient people did tend to have 'written' history, or at least artistic or carved - even being able to identify and mark out the Equator. Those civilisations benefited from environment with vast and diverse flora and fauna, numerical and engineering ability and even working with precious metals were far, far more advanced than the Polynesian / Pacific people.
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