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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 15h

💯 but it's also heartbreaking because one of the things that came through clearly in my research and others' was the value in tauira Māori being able to connect histories learnt in school and at home

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 18h

And some of it is just laughably bad. The "Global History" strand starts with the Stone Age is Year 2 and then just tells a history of the Western World picking up the next year where they left off.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 18h

The complete elimination of the Understand strand (the "big ideas") also means there is no clear sense of how all this content fits together, which, I guess, is convenient if you don't want your overarching narrative (basically celebration of Western Civilization) to be explicit.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 18h

By ignoring the ways Te Tiriti was introduced to manage settler rule students can have no understanding of how and why the 1852 Constitution Act is such a profound breach of Te Tiriti.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 18h

The Te Tiriti content (which isn't introduced until Year 4) implies the English text was signed in Feb 1840, that the Māori text is a "translation", and that Te Tiriti was primarily a response to the Musket Wars. This is all nonsense.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 18h

One of the most striking features is how out of step it is with contemporary historical scholarship. If "knowledge rich" curricula are meant to centre the knowledge from communities of expertise than this curriculum fails by its own terms.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 18h

I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 9d

This year I've been teaching on the UoA Waipapa Taumata Rau course. It's been infuriating to see it attacked and misrepresented by ACT and NZ Herald. Alison Jones' piece gives a clear account of what it is, what it isn't, and why it should remain a requirement e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

A betrayal of academic freedom | E-Tangata

e-tangata.co.nz

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Sep 27

March 2024 or 2025? I’m losing my grip on this timeline.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Aug 4

There’s so little information of what is actually changing (other than the names of things) it’s pretty safe to say that you will hate it, but time will tell how/why.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Jul 12

George Harrison complaining that the MBE medal was a bit tatty is possibly my on brand George Harrison moment (along with refusing the clean up his vomit in Hamburg).

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Jun 1

I remember randomly seeing this on tv when I was 15/16 and it kinda changed my life/politics

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Nathan Simms @nathansimms.bsky.social · May 14

A reminder that Judith Collins, the defender of Parliamentary "civility" leaked a Civil Servant's personal details to her Dirty Politics attack dogs, who then followed her orders to try and destroy that Civil Servant. "Civility", she calls it.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Apr 5

Looking forward to it!

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Mar 14

This looks great. Looking forward to reading it with my 8 year olds. All his recent efforts to form a band have been thwarted.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · Mar 10

This government has been doing DEI on behalf of unqualified white men, as showed by their appointments for The Waitangi Tribunal and the NZ Human Rights Commissioner, all slated as unqualified by officials. End this woke shit.

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ardrigh @ardrigh.bsky.social · Feb 16

If you want to direct your anger at Destiny Church, rather than sign multiple petitions on overseas websites, support the petition open at Parliament #nzpol

petitions.parliament.nz/a22e0d59-7da...

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

petitions.parliament.nz

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 16

If Erica Stanford wants to win over teachers, I recommend she continues to make her disdain for Seymour clear. She’s never been more relatable.

Teacher-only days continue after Seymour oversteps, Education Minister says

Education Minister Erica Stanford says it wasn't David Seymour's place to say teacher-only days would be cut back.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 16

Sure, but it still grates to hear it described as a “protest”. They were told to “storm the library”. That’s an attack, not a protest.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 16

We can put Destiny Church alongside Nazis as gangs the government is “comfortable” with.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 16

She clearly hates him soooo much

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 16

So “how far” exactly does Luxon think Destiny Church should have gone?

Destiny Church protesters 'went too far' - Luxon

Luxon said protesters linked to Destiny Church "went too far" by disrupting Pride events in Auckland, while church leader Brian Tamaki said he told protesters, "I want you to storm the library they're...

www.rnz.co.nz

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 14

I’ve been watching the schedule waiting to see when the inhabitants of the Ōwairaka fairy house will be going their Treaty Principles Bill submission #nzpol

Fairy tree decorations including tino rangatiratanga flag.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 12

Sure, but I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with leftists thinking scrapping Epsom would be both funny and possibly bad for Labour. I just get a little tired of the "what the left don't understand is..." discourse.

Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · Feb 12

I don’t see how this is an “own goal”. My understanding is that it’s the Representation Commission who decides what will happen, not “the left”?

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