2015: “Teaching Critical History in Schools”

September 13, 2019

By AHNZ

Tamsin Hanly created these books 3 or 4 years ago calling it a Critical History of New Zealand.

She has recently also launched a website poised to take advantage of compulsory history education…should such a thing come to pass…

“A critical guide to Māori and Pākehā histories of Aotearoa – A curriculum programme resource (CPR) for schools & teachers”- Critical Histories of Aotearoa

The word ‘Critical’ is code for Marxist, by the way. By nature it is subversive, trying to propagandise people rather than trust them to evaluate for themselves.

Even the term ‘critical’ is subject to itself because people hear that and think something like “Oh good! Critical Thinking. Let’s have some of that.” Actually it’s nothing of the sort. Hanly is indeed coming from activist Maori Marxist roots.

Can’t really complain about her efforts in this direction since it’s much like what I do from an Anarchist Libertarian angle on New Zealand history. I suspect, however, that she’s cruising for The State to pick up her narrative and mandate it for public schools; Thus making her a rich woman. If the ongoing pressure to have more NZ history in our schools is ever answered, Hanly is first in line to be chief beneficiary.

[….5 months later….]

Within the next three years, New Zealand history will be taught in all schools and kura, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced this morning..”- New Zealand history will be compulsory in all schools by 2022; Stuff

Oh, there we go. Tamsin’s ship has come in, so has the Difficult Histories lobby group, so has New Zealand History Teachers’ Association. The Statist History of New Zealand caught a gravy train this week!

The Anarchist History of New Zealand is not compulsory. You are here because you want to be here. It is not funded by The State and never will be. Please support this page by letting me know what you think and sharing it around because the competition just got a shot of nasty Government steroids.

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Image ref. Tamsin Hanly on Teaching Critical History in Schools; Stuff

Image ref. Vincent O’Malley of Difficult Histories tux in to one of his books

Image ref. University of Canterbury School of Teacher Education senior lecturer Dr Richard Manning can’t stop smiling now

Ref. A Critical Guide to Māori and Pākehā Histories of Aotearoa: A Curriculum Programme Resource for Educators; First published in 2015

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