May 02, 2016
Maniapoto takes aim at curriculum
Education was high on the agenda for Prime Minister John Key's visit to Te Kuiti last week.
Keith Ikin from Ngati Maniapoto says the iwi is keen to look at new and different ways to support the generations coming through to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
While in the past, iwi have tended to invest through tertiary scholarships, he says Maniapoto wants to work with schools in its rohe.
Priorities include use of technology and getting the iwi's view of history more widely understood.
"We've been able to achieve what the education leaders within Maniapoto, a commitment to having input into the curriculum around Maniapoto, history, tikanga o Maniapoto, te reo o Maniapoto, our own European contact history and the land wars and we believe it is really important our young people, all young people in our community have knowledge of who we are, where we have come from, our history, our culture," he says.
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