Educational Administration in the Multiracial Society: A Report on New Zealand

Report of the Commission on Education in New Zealand ( Wellington, Government Printer, 1962), pp. 401-37.

J.K. Hunn , Report on the Department of Maori Affairs (Wellington , Government Printer, 1961), p. 25.

Commission on Education , op. cit, p. 404. Pupils usually sit the School Certificate Examination at the end of the third year of secondary schooling.

New Zealand Official Year Book (Wellington, Government Printer, 1970), p. 76. The population totals are to the nearest thousand.

Statistics Division, Department of Education. In 1960 an additional 12,098 pupils were attending the separate Maori primary schools which were also part of the state system, and 2,990 pupils were attending private primary schools. Enrolments at Maori District High Schools (secondary) totalled 563 and at private secondary schools 1,260.

Commission on Education, op. cit., p. 7.

Maori Population and Dwellings, Vol. 8, New Zealand Census ( Wellington, Department of Statistics, 1969), p. 5. The definition of a Maori used in the New Zealand census is 'a person of half or more Maori origin'.

Annual Report of the Maori Education Foundation (1969), p. 16. During the eight years of its existence the foundation has made 7,730 grants valued at $959,553.

J.E. Ritchie , 'Human Problems and Educational Change in a Maori Community' Journal of the Polynesian Society (Vol. 65, No. 1, 1956).

Commission on Education , op. cit., p. 435.

A—J, E—I, 1968, p. 24.

New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (4 September 1968), p. 1530.

Report of the National Advisory Committee, p. 16.

Research into the educational achievement of Maori pupils has also been undertaken in the universities. Studies of primary school children have included those by M.N. Lovegrove , 'A Cross-Cultural Study of Scholastic Achievement and Selected Determiners', unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Auckland, 1965

; J.R. McCreary , 'Reading Tests with Maori Children', New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1966)

; R.J. Walker , 'The Social Relationships of Maori Students at Auckland Teachers' College' , unpublished M.A. thesis, Auckland University , 1965.

See also T.K. Fitzgerald , 'The Social Position of Maori University Graduates' , Polynesian Studies (No. 7, 1968); R.K. Harker , 'Maori Education and Research', The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology (Vol. 7, No. 1, April 1971 ); M.M. Clay , 'Language Skills: A Comparison of Maori, Samoan and Pakeha Children aged Five to Seven Years', New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies (Vol. 5, No. 2, November 1970).

New Zealand Council for Educational Research , Research Needed in the Education of Maori Children (Wellington, 1961),

I.H. Bareham , The English Vocabulary and Sentence Structure of Maori Children (Wellington, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1965).

17 R.A. Benton , Research into the English Language Difficulties of Maori School Children (Wellington, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1965).

New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Thirty-Fifth Annual Report (Wellington, 1969-70), p. 30.

New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Annual Report ( Wellington, 1970-1).

Communication from the Research Officer for Information, 17 September 1971.

Commission on Education , op. cit, p. 427.

New Zealand Department of Education , Education Gazette (Wellington, Government Printer, 1971), p. 31.

Report of the Advisory Council, p. 13.

D.P. Ausubel , Maori Youth (Wellington, Price Milburn , 1961), p. 181.

Ibid.

K.M. Dewes , 'The Place of Maori Language in the Education of Maoris', Christchurch, Paper presented to the fortieth ANZASS Congress.

See R.J. Walker , 'There are Maori Solutions for Some Maori Problems in City Schools', National Education (February 1969), pp. 16-19.

Methodist Church of New Zealand, Report of the Maori Mission ( 1970), p. 4.

Statistics Division, Department of Education.

Ausubel, op. cit., p. 180.

The Evening Post (14 March 1969).

Report of the Department of Maori and Island Affairs (1970), p. 12.

R.K. Harker , 'Some Aspects of Maori University Education in New Zealand', unpublished M. A. thesis, Department of Education, Victoria University of Wellington , 1970, pp. 29, 30.

New Zealand Education Institute , Report and Recommendations on Maori Education ( Wellington , 1967).

New Zealand Post-Primary Teachers' Organization, Interim Report on Maori Education (Wellington, 1970 ).

G.V. Butterworth , The Maori in the New Zealand Economy (Wellington, Department of Industries and Commerce, 1967).

J.W. Watson , Horizons of Unknown Power ( Wellington, N. Z. Council for Educational Research , 1968).

Ausubel, op. cit., p. 80.

See for example J.E. Ritchie , The Making of a Maori ( Wellington, A. H. Reed, 1963), and E.G. Schwimmer , (The Sense of Belonging', in The Currie Report: A Critique (Wellington, 1963 ).