Education and Life in New Zealand and Australia

Split into groups of 4 I’ll assign each group either New Zealand or Australia For your country, answer: – Where is this country located? (Describe in words, and don’t look at a map first!) – What do you know about this country?

Which map is correct?

The Flag Debate Which flag would you want to have? Why?

Education in NZ Years 1-13, correspond to our K-12 High school=college. College=university. High school/college also numbered Level 1, 2, and 3 (like grades 10, 11, and 12).

Graduation and Testing You don’t really graduate in NZ, you just get to be done when you have enough credits Some assessments are graded by the Ministry of Education (like our MEAP and MME is), but the credits you earn in school depend on how well you do! You can get a varying number of credits based on how well you do and what courses you take So if you’re an overachiever, you can earn your credits, leave high school/college and go to university

You have to wear uniforms!

Social Studies in NZ Social science classes required through year 9, but then students have option of taking classes including: – History (mostly special topics) – Geography (like human/environment interaction) – Econ (for business-track people) – Sustainability (science and social science)

A snippet on Australian schools They have same numbering system as us, K-12 Government is a federal system, so education has been controlled by the states, but is moving toward more federal control

Mr. Carman does the haka x/slHyha0oOD x/slHyha0oOD

There must be a reason I showed that… There is! New Zealand is really proud of its Maori culture Maori culture is infused into NZ culture as a whole

Maori make up about 12% of NZ’s population and retain many land rights They still lag socioeconomically behind Europeans, called Pakehas NZ government based on partnership between Maori and Pakeha

Australian Aborigines Treated much worse than Maori Why do you think this might be?

Aboriginal people make up <2% of Australia’s population Very socioeconomically underprivileged Very recent history of extreme discrimination—massacres in the 1930s and not explicitly able to vote until 1967