Early childhood education in Aotearoa, New Zealand: history, pedagogy, and liberation / Jenny Ritchie, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand and Mere Skerrett, Senior Lecturer, School of Teacher Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Title: Early childhood education in Aotearoa, New Zealand: history, pedagogy, and liberation / Jenny Ritchie, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand and Mere Skerrett, Senior Lecturer, School of Teacher Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Subject Terms: Early childhood education -- New Zealand., Early childhood education -- New Zealand -- History., Children, Māori -- New Zealand. -- Education (Early childhood), Culturally relevant pedagogy -- New Zealand., Kura pūhou., Kōhanga reo., Mātauranga., Ariā whakaako., Taipūwhenuatanga., Tikanga rua., Kōrero nehe., Kawa whakaruruhau.
Contributors: Ritchie, Jenny, (Jenny Ruth), Skerrett, M. (Mere)
Publisher Information: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Publication Year: 2014
Physical Description: xv, 145 pages ; 23 cm.
Series: Critical cultural studies of childhood
Palgrave pivot
Original Material: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description: Taking as a starting point the work of Aotearoa New Zealand to provide an education system that includes curriculum, pedagogy, and language from indigenous Māori culture, this book investigates the ensuing practices, policies, and dilemmas that have arisen and provides a wealth of data on how truly culturally inclusive education might look.
Contents Note: Dismantling colonial myths : centralising Māori language in education / Mere Skerrett -- Policy and inhibiters of bicultural/bilingual advancement / Mere Skerrett -- Crown breaches, neoliberal reforms, and radical pedagogy / Mere Skerrett -- Contextual explorations of Māori within "whitestream" early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand / Jenny Ritchie -- Post-Te Whāriki early childhood care and education policy and practice in "whitestream" early childhood care and education in Aotearoa / Jenny Ritchie -- Counter-colonial pedagogy of affect in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand / Jenny Ritchie -- Liberatory praxis: conclusions / Mere Skerrett and Jenny Ritchie.
Original Identifier: OCoLC: 870299197
Document Type: Monograph
File Description: text; unmediated
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-137-39441-5
1-137-39441-2
Rights: Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa and licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/)
Accession Number: edsnzl.9918141972802836
Database: Publications New Zealand Metadata