Unbroken thread: Maori learning and the National Qualifications Framework

This report was commissioned to present a coherent set of relevant level descriptions, organised in a coherent range, and based on Maori learning and teaching principles. These descriptions would be suitable for use across the range of general and vocational units for courses taught in Maori and/or employing Maori teaching and learning principles. The descriptors were to be used to assign Maori units and qualifications to levels in the National Qualifications Framework.

Chapter 1 provides information about traditional Maori educational theory and practice. Chapter 2 covers modern Maori principles of teaching and learning. The material from chapters 1 and 2 is related to the technical question of descriptors for the assigning of Maori units to levels within the Framework in chapter 3. There is no attempt to justify the Framework or the idea of levels for qualifications and their component units and unit standards. In chapter 3, three criteria are suggested to be added to the sets of descriptors at each level for Maori units within the Framework, and also modifications to other descriptors to form a complete set of descriptors for assigning Maori units to levels. In chapter 4 possible structures are suggested with corresponding descriptors, for Maori qualifications within the Framework. The conclusions are within chapter 5.

This report was commissioned to present a coherent set of relevant level descriptions, organised in a coherent range, and based on Maori learning and teaching principles. These descriptions would be suitable for use across the range of general and vocational units for courses taught in Maori and/or employing Maori teaching and learning principles. The descriptors were to be used to assign Maori units and qualifications to levels in the National Qualifications Framework.

Chapter 1 provides information about traditional Maori educational theory and practice. Chapter 2 covers modern ...  [+] Show more