Bicultural educational policy is part of a much broader ensemble of bicultural policies that
were first developed by the Fourth Labour Government elected in 1984. These policies were …

Educational under-achievement by a section of the Maori population is a persistent problem
for New Zealand. This article is a theoretical examination of the practice and consequences …

In this paper, the author discusses the development of ideologies about multiethnic
educational policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand in terms of four successive stages: assimilation …

As educational professionals in New Zealand at the approach of the twenty-first century,
some 158 years after the Treaty of Waitangi, we face some major challenges in examining …

This article looks at organisational and curricular responses to cultural diversity which are
presently operating alongside one another in New Zealand schooling. It begins with a …

Multiculturalism has a short history and is vulnerable as a concept and policy in the
neoconservative state, after 9/11. It originated in the late 1960s, emerging with the …

The most significant crisis presently confronting New Zealand educationists relates to high
and disproportionate levels of inequality experienced by Maori both within and as a result of …

This article describes an intervention strategy, initiated under the New Zealand
Government's tribal partnership scheme, which promotes a culture-based/place-based …

This paper examines the justification for a culturally responsive educational initiative to raise
the educational underachievement of Māori students in New Zealand. The initiative is …

This paper draws on the idea of neo-tribal capitalism to argue that in New Zealand
educational disadvantage is typically understood through the lens of ethnicity and that policy …