600 years of Aotearoa New Zealand's past
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An expert panel has criticised Aotearoa New Zealand's Histories curriculum draft for omitting topics, including women, labour and economics, and the single largest block of the country's human history - the 600 years of pre-European Māori life.
In a report on the draft version of Aotearoa New Zealand's Histories curriculum, the panel convened by the Royal Society of New Zealand to advise the Education Ministry said it strongly supported the introduction of New Zealand's histories into the core curriculum and strongly commended placing Māori history central to New Zealand history.
The report said it was impossible for students to understand citizenship without knowledge of history.
Link to article and recording: Draft history curriculum misses 600 years of Aotearoa New Zealand's past | Stuff.co.nz
