MAORI EDUCATION

Pre-school Education

Kindergartens and play-centres are open to Maori and European children alike and can be established under the same conditions. Since the Maori Education Foundation was established in 1961, it has encouraged Maori parents to use existing facilities and to form new groups in rural areas.

• Pre-Colonisation Period

• The Missionary Period

• Government Control

• Pre-school Education

• Primary Education

• Staffing

• The Primary School Curriculum

• Post-primary Education

• The Post-primary Curriculum

• University and Teacher College Education

• Pre-apprentice Training

• Financial Assistance

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.