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Kepa, Mere; Atu, Linita Manu – American Indian Quarterly, 2006
Po Ako, a community-based project, was created to break the experience of absence--cultural alienation and educational exclusion--overwhelming the Tongan students in Aotearoa New Zealand. In January 1991, not a single Tongan student attending Mt. Roskill Grammar School in Auckland passed the national examination for a School Certificate. In May…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Evening Programs, Indigenous Populations
Manu'atu, Linita; Kepa, Tangiwai Mere Appleton – 1999
Education is one of the social institutions manipulated by New Zealand's European people to establish and perpetuate a painfully fragmented society. Po Ako is a community-based educational project where immigrant teachers, parents, and children from Tonga educate themselves at night about their own culture to better understand themselves and their…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Education, Culture Conflict, Evening Programs
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1906
Volume 1 begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and includes state school-system statistics. Chapter I covers education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Chapter II presents children's growth statistics collected in Worcester, Mass., Toronto, Ontario, and Milwaukee. Chapter III addresses German university pension and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Foreign Countries, Child Development, College Faculty
Berrien, Marcia T. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This bulletin presents a study of the development of education in New Zealand. Chapter I, Historical Development of Education, covers the growth of education since 1877. Chapter II, Educational Administration and Finance provides details on the Act of 1877; the organization, functions and responsibilities of the Department of Education; and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Governance, Boards of Education