It’s great that we will soon have a history curriculum. It needs to offer rich knowledge to all New Zealand school students, regardless of their socio-economic status, ethnicity or religion. As Elizabeth Rata and Briar Lipson would argue, rich disciplinary knowledge that all students possess is needed for equity, civil society and democracy.
The curriculum should also foster both the spirit and method of critical inquiry. It should challenge students to ask what motivated people in different historical contexts, what were they thinking, what did they need to take account of, and how did they expect others to behave.
The curriculum should make students aware of what the rest of the world has gifted us, and what we ourselves have created. It should encourage students to treasure their whakapapa of the mind, regardless of where their bloodline whakapapa came from. It should be centripetal in drawing people together, and not…
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