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The inference is pretty clear I would have thought. Classrooms are clearly full of Kiwi culture (inclusive of the moari culture by definition) at the moment, to equate that with pakeha culture (inclusive of the wider european culture by definition, and still not actually a thing) to further your goals of racial segregation shows you think those are the same things as I outlined above.
Of course if we've misunderstood you'll be happy to clarify what you meant, and maybe explain why racial segregation is a good thing?
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
OK. You are mixing two concepts here - race and culture. These are NOT the same thing.
First of all I use the term European-derived cultures to mean all those New Zealand cultures that have developed here (kiwi, Pākehā etc) but which take their major elements from the cultures of Europe. Such a term can also be used to describe the majority cultures of the USA, of Australia ...
Classrooms are not full of a kiwi culture that is inclusive of Māori culture. All pedagogies are culturally-based - and linked to epistemologies. The pedagogies used in our classrooms are those of the European-derived cultures, not those of Māori culture. The epistemologies are those of the European-derived cultures, not those of Māori culture.
My goal is NOT racial segregation - My goal is the flourishing of ALL New Zealanders in an equitable society. That will not be achievable if we persist in mono-cultural education practices.
Our Māori students are forced to sit in classrooms with pedagogies that they do not relate to. We need classrooms using Māori pedagogies so our Māori students learn what they need to learn ...
The same goes for health provision. There are different approaches to health among the range of cultures that exist in New Zealand ... we need a wider range of health delivery options to cater for those cultural differences.
Is that too hard to understand??
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