Client: Asia New Zealand Foundation
Project: Asia Awareness
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Macleans College Korean Dance group perform at Botany Downs during 2007.
Objectives:
Educating NZ collaborated with the Asia New Zealand Foundation on a resource for school principals to raise their awareness of Asia, to ensure school programmes meet the needs of an increasingly diverse NZ population and reflect the growing importance of Asia to NZ and globally.
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Project update:
2007
Educating NZ designed a web-based resource for principals to assist them to make their school communities and curriculum more Asia aware. (Although web-based, the resource material is suitable for, or adaptable to, a printed format.) The resource includes four case studies that showcase three NZ schools and their contribution to an Asia-aware school culture.
The resource is intended to:
- inform principals about how and why Asia is important to New Zealand and their students
- define what it means to be an Asia-aware school
- provide tools, resources and/or case studies to assist principals in bringing Asia awareness into their schools.
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Client background:
Asia:NZ is a non-profit, apolitical organisation dedicated to:
- developing New Zealanders' knowledge and understanding of the countries and peoples of Asia
- helping New Zealanders acquire the right skills to work effectively with Asian counterparts
- building New Zealand's links with Asia
- promoting and assisting New Zealanders' participation in regional activities.
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Archive:
2005 (Dec)
Research completed to determine the amount of Asian studies taught in secondary school programmes and to identify incentives and obstacles for including Asian settings and content in their programmes. The completed research is available at:
http://www.asianz.org.nz/files/SOA_Full_Report.pdf
2005 (Sep)
Focus groups were facilitated in four New Zealand secondary schools, which comprised of seven practising teachers who represented essential learning areas of the New Zealand curriculum framework. The focus groups results complemented the findings of the survey by providing deeper insights into the research questions.