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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm reluctant to speculate too much, but it does look like the absence of critical thinking is consistent. There doesn't seem to be any consideration of Māori philosophies of science in that area either.

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

It is still a significant improvement on the draft - which says something about how shocking the draft was - and I think it is probably something teachers can work with, but it's going to require considerable support from outside organisations who support critical and informed education.

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

Outside of History, the Civics and Society strand is bland, with no consideration of discrimination, poverty and other ways our systems fail people. No serious attention to climate change across the whole curriculum. No focus on power as a concept until Year 10.

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

NZ Wars are introduced like this: "Conflict grew because Māori and European settlers had different ideas about land, authority, and te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi". Educators have been trying to address the misconception the NZ Wars were caused by te Tiriti and this undoes all that.

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

This quote, from Year 8, gives an indication of how the cession of authority is assumed: "Some rangatira refused to sign, while others never had the opportunity. Neither refusal nor non–engagement resulted in the retention of authority for Māori, as the treaty was subsequently applied to all Māori"

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

Colonisation is just something that happened in 19th C., NZ Wars were a misunderstanding, rangatira who signed te Tiriti ceded their authority etc etc. It provides very limited opportunities for young people to critically engage with the world around them.

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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 · 16/07/2026

Loved Pickford making the “fancy a pint” gesture before the second hydration break. Not sure if he was informing his team mates or suggesting it to the ref.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’m not familiar with that research, curious to know how new uni students’ difficulties are attributed NCEA. I find 1st years have better academic skills than 15 years ago and miles better than what I had when I’d never been required to do any research in school - but that’s just anecdotal.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

What’s the basis for the claim it didn’t prep students for further study? I think students are better prepared than I was under bursary and I don’t see students at uni who went to school overseas being any more prepared.

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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 · 20/02/2026

Completely absurd - but at the very least the closing comments imply the (redacted) substance of the responses was negative.

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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

The library at Waipapa Taumata Rau | UoA has all the recordings (and are in the process of digitising) and other materials, but particularly poignant is an outline of his proposed thesis. They're currently being exhibited: www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...

auckland.ac.nz

The 1975 Māori Land March marks 50 years – University of Auckland

Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Māori Land March with a new exhibition.

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

He came to Aotearoa from Zurich to complete a MA thesis and conducted 40 hours of interviews, but had to return home after developing leukemia and died the 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...

archives.library.auckland.ac.nz

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

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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

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

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

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

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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(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-...

e-tangata.co.nz

A betrayal of academic freedom | E-Tangata

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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

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

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

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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 · 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 · 16/02/2025

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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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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

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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 · 12/02/2025

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.

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

Oh yeah, I recently came across their '89 guide for school trustees on school charters and the treaty and was really impressed by it. I should look into the whole project some more.

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

It would be interesting to see what a sustained programme of this sort would look like. I have mixed feeling about the success of the programme Labour initiated in 2003, but not sure what lessons to take from it. Priority now is ensuring the school histories curriculum isn't dismantled this year.

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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 · 27/01/2025

Also on that first hand was social workers, health care providers, religious leaders and a host of other people who live te Tiriti in the work they do for communities across Aotearoa.

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

And to think this is the person leading the writing of our subject English curriculum.

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

Your oral submission this morning was brilliant :)

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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Was that they guy who suggested we should only look at the Kohimarama Conference for the meaning of Te Tiriti, a conference made up rangatira invited by the governor, half of whom rejected the invitation, in response to the Kiingitanga and conflict in Taranaki?

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

I regret encouraging my son to go safe. I think I failed as a father by blocking his recommendation to feed the bill to our dog and then when he poops it out put the poo in the dog poo worm farm so the worms eat it and it's gone forever.

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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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