What do Maoris in New Zealand want from Education?

The Advisory Council on Educational Planning,(ACEP) now called the Educational Development Council, is an independent body. Nine of its members,(one Maori) from various walks of life, are appointed by the Minister of Education. Four ex-officio members represent the Department of Education, the University Grants Committee, the Vocational Training Council and the Treasury. Since 1972 until their report in 1974, the Council acted as steering committee for the Education Priorities Conference (later called the Educational Development Conference) which entailed the provision of three working parties making reports in three areas of education (Aims and Objectives, Improving Learning and Teaching and Organization and Administration of Education) and the provision of booklets for public discussions. Their final report resulted from the working parties’ reports and the recommendations from the public. It was estimated that 8000 submissions from 4000 study groups representing approximately 60,000 people were made. Cited in Talkback, Report of Public Discussion EDC, 1974. Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand , 5.

Maori Education, A Report prepared for the Working Party on Improving Learning and Teaching of the Education Development Conference , Wellington, 1974, 12 .

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ronald L.W. : Maori Language for Maori Pupils. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Auckland, 1971.

Fitzgerald T.K. : Education and Identity: A Case Study of the New Zealand Maori Graduate”. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina , 1969. (Shortly to be published by NZCER).

Winiata M. : The Changing Role of the Leader in Maori Society. Blackwood and Janet Paul Limited, Auckland , 1967.

The Maori Education Foundation is an autonomous body set up under Act in 1961. Funds were provided by the public and subsidized by Government. Its major objective is to provide educational grants to Maori students mainly at secondary and tertiary level.

Maori Education, op.cit. 18.

Parent-School Communication, Report of the Committee on Communication between Schools and Parents, Department of Education, Wellington, New Zealand , 1973.

Walker R.J. : “Maoritanga and the teacher”, in Bray D. and Hill C. (Eds.), Polynesian and Pakeha in New Zealand Education. Vol. II, Heinemann.

Dewes K. : “The place of Maori language in the education of Maoris”. Te Kaunihera Maori, Spring, 1969.

Kawaharu I.J. : Research findings in a Report to NZCER. Cited in Schwimmer, “Maori aspirations in education”, in Ewing J. and Shallcrass J., (Eds), Introduction to Maori Education, NZ University Press , 1970, 12.

Walker R.J., Op.cit, Vol 1, 113

Dewes K., Loc.cit.

Rangihau J. : Taped recording at a secondary principals’ course, July 1974, Christchurch.

Ibid.

Royal T.K. and Tapiata J. : The Teaching of Maori Language in Schools”. Bray and Hill, Op.cit., 133.

Talkback, Report of Public Discussions, EDC , Government Printer, New Zealand, 1974, 17.

McDonald G. : Preschool Education and Maori Communities: A Matter of Values”. Bray and Hill, op.cit. Vol II, 69.

Ibid. 69.

Winiata M. : op cit. 155 .

Fitzgerald T.K. : loc. cit.

Ramsden E. : Sir Apirana Ngata and Maori Culture. A.H. and A.W. Reed , Wellington, 1948.

The quote is from Ngata Memorial College’s motto. The translation is the author’s.

Ritchie op. cit. 68 .

Report of the Commission on Education in New Zealand, Wellington1962, Government Printer , New Zealand, 415.

Ibid. 416.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Directions for Educational Planning. A Report prepared by the Advisory Council on Educational Planning, Education Development Conference , Wellington, Government Printer , 1974, 52.

Maori Education:Report of the National Advisory Committee on Maori Education1971, Government Printer, Wellington.

Smith A.F. : Providing for Maori in a Secondary School. Bray and Hill, op.cit., 135.

Johnson J.B. : A Secondary School for a Multi-Ethnic Suburb. ibid., 148.

MacGregor J. : “Why Maori language and culture”, in Shallcrass J., (Ed.) Secondary Schools in Change, Price Milburn, Wellington, 1973, 71.

Watson J.E. : Accommodating the Polynesian Heritage of the Maori Child, NZCER , 1972, 4.

Ibid. 11.

Smith A.F. : Unpublished Report of Study Leave, Human Rights Fellowship, 1972 , Department of Education, New Zealand, 2.

Ibid.

Schwimmer E. : “Maori Schooling and the Confusion of Identity”, Bray & Hill, op.cit., 75.

Ritchie op. cit., 68 .

Ausubel D.P. : “Factors in Educational Achievement”, Ewing and Shallcrass, op.cit., 56.

Lovegrove M.N. : “The Scholastic Achievement of European and Maori Children”, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 1, 1, May 1966, 33

McCreary J.R. : “Reading Tests with Maori Children”, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, ibid., 48.

Hoist H.H. : “The Maori Child’s First Year at Post Primary School”, Education, 6 November, 1957, 45–48 .

Ball D.J. : “Maori Education”, in Mitchell F.W., (Ed.), Looking Ahead in New Zealand Education, A.H. and A.W. Reed Limited, Wellington, 1974 , 163.