This section takes a sweeping look at the social issues in New Zealand that effect Maori and
Pakeha race relations.
Learning intentions Students are learning to…
Focus: What were the issues in race relations 1960-1980?
- To understand developments in education, employment, health and housing.
- To explore diversity of perspective over social issues in NZ .
- To develop an awareness of how education, employment, health and housing played an important part in the development of race relations in NZ society.
Success criteria (How do students know they have achieved success?)
I can…
- I can discuss the impact of education, employment, health and housing on race relations Maori development.
- I can identify and explain different perspectives about Maori education, employment, health and housing.
Key Content to Cover
- Maori Education
- Te Reo decline, emergence of Te Kohanga Reo
- Maori Language Act 1987
- Native Schools
- Monocultural culture of Secondary schools
- Inclusion of a Maori dimension into education
- Urbanisation’s effect on Maori Education
- Employment opportunities for Maori
- Consequences of rural ‘unskilled’ moving to cities
- Developments in Maori health and housing
Relevant Film Archive footage and Key Questions
DVD 1. RELATIONSHIPS (CULTURE)
“THE NINETIES – Language restrictions” 1993
The Native Schools – students not allowed to speak Maori. Forbidden to speak Maori in public.
Questions:
Why did the woman’s mother (who was a licensed interpreter) NEVER teach her children Maori?
DVD 1. RELATIONSHIPS (CULTURE)
Weekly Review 171: Pakeha Children Give Maori Display, 1944.
Questions:
- According to the narrator, why are these Pakeha children giving this display?
- What is happening in the world at this time?
- How may the Maori Battalion have influenced a presentation like this?
DVD 2. GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES (EDUCATION)
Weekly Review 324: Maori School, 1947
Ruatoria. Riding to school on horseback.
Witness “model cottage” built by older Maori boys.
Questions:
- What kind of education are they receiving?
- What kind focus is this?
- How does it differ from an urban school?
- What would the outcome be of a focused education like that?
DVD 2. GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES (EDUCATION)
Meet New Zealand, 1949
Government version of assimilation and racial harmony.
Questions:
- What does this tell us about official attitude to Maori? What kind of jobs are they doing?
- How are traditional crafts described?
- Quote: “The education they receive is the same of that given to Pakeha children”?
- What are some of the issues that may arise out of this programme?
- What is the dominant culture? How can you tell?
DVD 2. GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES (EDUCATION)
Te Puhi Kai Ariki, 2004
This article focuses on Maori Women’s Welfare League and their influence on education. The
Maori Women’s Welfare League wanted to encourage a return to te reo Maori and to help Maori
thrive inside and outside of mainstream education.
Discussion:
If district schools are geared towards manual labour (building and cooking), what kind of
opportunity is a student going to have in a developing world?
Interesting point: Most Maori leaders came out of the boarding schools – these were academic
schools!
DVD 2. GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES (EDUCATION)
Towards
Tomorrow, 1956
This film was designed to encourage Maori to pursue “Pakeha” careers.
What is this film evidence of? Amalgamation? Integration?
Interesting quote: “Little over a century ago they were a stone age people”
Listen to debate on Marae –what are the issues?
How is the Maori father and mother presented? (lazy, gambling, selfish, limiting education).
How would this official clip affect attitudes to Maori?
Discussion of equality – equality of knowledge leads t economic equality. Do you agree?
DVD 3. RACE RELATIONS 1960s-1970s. (Employment and Education)
Race against
time, 1983
Apirana Taylor recites “Sad Joke on a Marae”
Discussion of the difficulties of urbanisation for young Maori.
Issue: Maori unable to relate to the Maori world because they have not been taught by elders.
Unable to achieve in the Pakeha world due to not connecting with Pakeha education system.
What are the results of dislocation like this for identity?
DVD 2. GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES (HOUSING AND HEALTH)
Tuberculosis
and the Maori People of the Wairoa District, 1952
- Interesting excerpt on TB.
- TB in Europe a ‘disease of the slums’
Could be used by students doing a case study on Maori Health issues.
