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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The final version of the Social Sciences curriculum was released yesterday. It probably won't surprise people to learn it presents a highly sanitised view of New Zealand history. 🧵

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

At Pulp tonight I learnt that everyone else’s new phones take way better photos than my v old one

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

As the only specialist education reporter left I always appreciate Gerritsen's work, but this needs some distinction between curriculum and professional learning. It seems much of the benefit came from the professional learning connected to the Common Practice Model rather than the curriculum.

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Better reading, maths results but two new curriculums a massive job - principals

Some said they focused on either the new maths or English curriculums, not both, and had more work to do next year.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It was moving today to learn about the Dieter Meyer's 1978 interviews with leaders and central figures in the 1975 Māori Land March archives.library.auckland.ac.nz/resources/di...

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Collection: Dieter Meyer collection on Māori land issues | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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-...

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A betrayal of academic freedom | E-Tangata

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Watching TPB submissions today and my son thinks people are copying ideas from his submission. Reminds me that when I was his age I was convinced I'd come up with the lyrics to the Addams Family Groove before MC Hammer.

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Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Explore books on Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi – available in schools, libraries, and bookshops across Aotearoa, as well as digitally through the BWB Collections. #NZHistory #TeTiriti

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I just had this happen doing a submission with my son. Don't really trust someone to be in touch in time, so we just submitted again and it went through #nzpol

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 03/01/2025

In "oh shit, there's another Bill that requires a submission" news, feedback on the Social Security Amendment Bill closes JANUARY 10TH. Here's my (very quick) submission, and the link. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

(Screenshot) Submission on Social Security Amendment Bill.

Commitee: Social Services and Community Committee.

I/We wish to make the following comments:
"Being a beneficiary is difficult. It's not a position anyone particularly wants to be in, and leaving can be difficult. The lack of empathy for people in these proposed changes is astoundingly cruel. Punitive approaches don't work, and I stand opposed to all proposed changes."
I/We wish to make the following recommendations:
"In 2019, the Welfare Expert Advisory Group made a range of recommendations for improving the social welfare system. I recommend you implement those."

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thinking about Dr Angus Macfarlane and his grieving whānau tonight. His contributions to mātauranga have impacted so many for the better. My fav is his work on the braided rivers model for the intersection of science and indigenous knowledge.

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 05/11/2024

This is so bad, and there will be more of it. This person was on the English years 0-6 curriculum writing group and now they are selling their services as experts in an aspect of literacy they wrote into the curriculum. The curriculum is now a vehicle for personal enrichment of a select few.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 30/10/2024

Structural unemployment doesn’t do its job of suppressing wages if being on social welfare isn’t a nightmare.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Even if the Treaty Principles Bill is stopped, that reading of ToW is still being persued by the govt. See the proposed changes to the Education and Training Act. Giving effect to te Tiriti is being moved from a primary objective, to a secondary objective when is supports "high student achievement"

Extract from the Education and Training Act 2022

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 22/08/2024

People within the Ministry of Education expressed in writing their unease with the actions of the MAG led by Michael Johnstone and the writing group led by Elizabeth Rata.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

I had hoped the ANZ history curriculum would help develop enough knowledge of NZ history that claims like the PM's - that Māori ceded sovereignty in 1840 - could not pass. Unfortunately, it was pretty clear after the changes to the draft that that kind of specific knowledge would not be included.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

It's remarkably common for students, and others, to talk as though te Tiriti o Waitangi caused the NZ Wars (and conflict more generally). I wrote about this with my colleagues Maia and Alison and how it sits within a broader idea of te Tiriti as flawed link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The Idea of a “Flawed Treaty” and its Influence on Students’ Perceptions of the New Zealand Wars - New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

This article reports on students’ accounts of te Tiriti o Waitangi as a flawed agreement that was a cause of subsequent conflict. We examine how the notion of a “flawed treaty” is developed in history...

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

There is a narrative being pushed that the ANZ histories curriculum is failing - often based on very little engagement with schools. This research (and my own) tells a very different story and illustrates why we should not rush into changes: www.nzcer.org.nz/blogs/school...

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Schools are excited about localising the Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum – and so are we | New Zealand Council for Educational Research

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Anyone know if Luxon is also still collecting $45,000 a year for renting the electorate office he own mortgage free? www.newshub.co.nz/home/politic...

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National leader Christopher Luxon 'very comfortable' with $45,000 taxpayer top-up from renting office back to Parliament

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

This is the cause Efeso was running for, raising money for fresh drinking water in the Pacific. I reckon sending some donations this way would be a wonderful way to do something with the sadness you're feeling. childfund.org.nz/childfund-wa...

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ChildFund Water Run

6 Kiwi celebs racing in the ChildFund Water Run to raise awareness and money to bring safe, clean drinking water to children in the Pacific.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Who knows where this aspect the coalition agreement will go, but I wrote something on my concerns with the agreement to “restore balance” in the history curriculum thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-...

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