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Aotearoa New Zealand's New National History Curriculum and Histories of Mourning.
| Title: | Aotearoa New Zealand's New National History Curriculum and Histories of Mourning. |
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| Authors: | Bell, Avril, Russell, Elizabeth |
| Source: | New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies; Jun2022, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p21-35, 15p |
| Abstract: | From 2022, New Zealand schools are teaching a new compulsory history curriculum that aims to teach diverse New Zealand histories, while foregrounding the centrality of Māori histories and the impacts of colonisation. The new curriculum will upend a long history of 'forgetting' the nation's contentious and conflictual past, and in particular the nineteenth century 'wars for New Zealand' (O'Malley, 2016) that secured settler hegemony over the nation-state. In this paper, we focus on the roles of remembering and forgetting in the narration of national histories to explore what might be a productive orientation to take to this contentious and unsettling past. We argue that the new history curriculum inaugurates a new phase of narrating the nation, replacing earlier phases of monocultural and bicultural nationhood that depended on this past being 'forgotten'. And we argue for the productive value of a histories of critical mourning approach to remembering this founding violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | GRIEF, CURRICULUM, HISTORY education, COLONIZATION, BICULTURALISM |
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| ISSN: | 00288276 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s40841-021-00231-2 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |