tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398806118503572758.post8773051804027349671..comments2024-02-22T10:51:15.300+13:00Comments on The Meeting Place - A New Zealand History Blog: The New Zealand Wars and the School CurriculumUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398806118503572758.post-67939714925581951982019-05-25T15:19:09.168+12:002019-05-25T15:19:09.168+12:00Kia Ora Vincent. I have just heard your interview ...Kia Ora Vincent. I have just heard your interview on RNZ. It prompted me to get in touch and mention, as I'm not on Twitter, the name of my history teacher at James Hargest in Invercargill. Lois Conway was the 7th form/Year 13 teacher when I attended, and at the start of the year she gave us a choice: Tudor History or NZ History. Perhaps it was the Tudor-weariness we could hear in her voice but we went with NZ History and I have always been so grateful that we did. <br />For Year 13 in those times the entire school year was focused on one subject. This meant that we got a relatively in depth view of early Maori through to about 1980 (I think), following Mike King's Penguin book on the topic. Conway also made sure that if we were going to learn the Maori place names, people and culture then the very least we could do was pronounce things correctly. This may have been some what revolutionary for a place like Invercargill, which can be seen as more Pakeha than anything else. <br />As an artist now with an interest in NZ History it have proven invaluable, like you say in the interview, for looking at sources and resources with a historian's eye. Thank you for the new book and pushing this subject further into the public's general knowledge. I look forward to reading it. Charhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03934798762465261754noreply@blogger.com