Nineteenth century nation-builders are represented by Waaka Te Huia and Katherine O'Dwyer. They and their descendants appear thoughout the series as symbols of the new modern people – New Zealanders – a people created by migration, intermarriage, and the education system.
The quality of the schools meant that all children were well educated. As citizens they made active contributions to the nation's flourishing liberal civil society and to expanding democratic governance. The episode acknowledges major nation-building figures, particularly Sir George Grey with his commitment to the revolutionary ideas of the modern world – universalism, freedom, and secularism.
The historiographic methods of the series are explained. Primary sources mean that the information can be verified for reliability and accuracy. I caution against presentism. I encourage viewers to be open-minded about what will be, to many, new and perhaps confronting information. Fifty years of a limited ideological history curriculum are challenged in the series, beginning in this first episode.
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Professor Elizabeth Rata is a sociologist of education in the School of Critical Studies, Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland where she is Director of the Knowledge in Education Research Unit (KERU).
The quality of the schools meant that all children were well educated. As citizens they made active contributions to the nation's flourishing liberal civil society and to expanding democratic governance. The episode acknowledges major nation-building figures, particularly Sir George Grey with his commitment to the revolutionary ideas of the modern world – universalism, freedom, and secularism.
The historiographic methods of the series are explained. Primary sources mean that the information can be verified for reliability and accuracy. I caution against presentism. I encourage viewers to be open-minded about what will be, to many, new and perhaps confronting information. Fifty years of a limited ideological history curriculum are challenged in the series, beginning in this first episode.
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Professor Elizabeth Rata is a sociologist of education in the School of Critical Studies, Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland where she is Director of the Knowledge in Education Research Unit (KERU).
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Elizabeth , you play bagpipe music , but don't mention that although we were an English colony we had at first a Scottish Education System . Otago didn't just have the wealth from gold fields , but also the Scots had an obsession for education . Education for social justice was their highest priority. That is one reason so much more money was spent on education there than in Auckland .
The alphabet spelling method , some 'look and say ' and phonics were taught in the 19th Century , It wasn't really until the 1920s that what you could call ;Structured Literacy ' was taught particularly with 'the Whitcombe andTomb's Progressive Readers and :phonic Readers.
thank you for your video. I am finding it very interesting . Gaynor
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