Rights For Each and Every Child
For Each and Every Child: He Taonga Tonu te Tamariki
This illustrated book is designed to help teach New Zealand children about their rights – Published 2012.
It brings the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” into words and pictures.
Teacher Support Materials aimed at levels 1 – 4 are available for download.
A Hymn for Anzac Day
This Anzac hymn was written by Shirley Erena Murray and highlights some of the complexities of Anzac Day and remembering war.
The power of song
An amazing film- Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
(1hr 33min)
View this film to learn about an aspect of the American peace movement, the work of a folk singer/political activist, and how music and song can contribute to nonviolent action.
A powerful resource for NZ National Curriculum related to The Arts or Social Science (History).
Update…
Pete Seeger, 92, joined the protesters of the American Occupy Wall Street protest (22 October 2011). Read more
On YouTube
YouTube Trailer 2 mins
YouTube by PBS American Masters 83 mins
How to access this film in New Zealand
Rental through AroVideo online and Fatso online, New Zealand.
Protect NZ children from violence
Every child thrives, belongs, achieves
Green Paper for Vulnerable Children – A discussion paper from the NZ government
Read more and download the discussion paper. External site
You can have your say on how New Zealand can better protect abused, neglected and disadvantaged children (due by 28 February 2012).
NZ Early childhood peace curriculum article
Published in Journal of Peace Education 2011
He Tatau Pounamu. Considerations for an early childhood peace curriculum focusing on criticality, indigeneity and an ethic of care, in Aotearoa New Zealand
A must read if you work in early childhood education in New Zealand.
Contact us if you are a New Zealander interested in reviewing this article.
Citation. Jenny Ritchie, Colleen Lockie & Cheryl Rau (2011): He Tatau Pounamu. Considerations for an early childhood peace curriculum focusing on criticality, indigeneity, and an ethic of care, in Aotearoa New Zealand, Journal of Peace Education, 8:3, 333-352
About the authors
Jenny Ritchie, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ
Colleen Lockie, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Cheryl Rau, Te Tari Puna Ora New Zealand Childcare Association, NZ
Topics covered
A historical context of colonisation and indigenous nonviolent resistance
Ancient, Indigenous Te Ao Māori philosophy
- Rangimārie –peace
- The ‘Ko tau rourou, ko taku rourou, ka ora te manuhiri. Ka ora tatou’
- ‘Hohou i te Rongo’
- Wairuatanga – spiritual interconnectedness
- Manaakitanga – caring for others
Alignment between critical peace education and the discursive context of early childhood care and education curriculum and assessment in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Te Whāriki, the New Zealand early childhood curriculum
- Assessment documents – Kei Tua o Te Pae and Te Whatu Pōkeka
Further contextual factors
- Resisting neoliberal recolonisation
- Intergenerational pedagogies for transformation
- Critical awareness of potentialities for peaceful dispositionality
- Reclaiming spirituality as foundational to our inter-relatedness as planetary beings
- Care as ethical practice
- Fostering dispositions of empathy and caring through a pedagogy of listening
Inequality threatens children’s rights
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says increasing economic and social disparities pose a threat to children’s rights.
In his message to the Second Forum on the Rights of the Child, hosted in Stockholm, Sweden (17 Nov 2011), Ban Ki-Moon stressed that while the Convention on the Rights of the Child has led to great advances to protect children’s interests and wellbeing “much remains to be done to make the promises in the treaty a reality”. He welcomed the forum’s decision to focus on the third article of the Convention, which states that in all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child should be a primary consideration.
Read more about the UN Secretary-General’s comments
Recent NZ Reports on Child Poverty
Inside Child Poverty – A Special Report by Bryan Bruce
Poverty by Radio New Zealand’s Political Editor, Brent Edwards
The extent of poverty in New Zealand and the effect of this for children. Listen to Radio NZ National’s Insight, Sunday 6th November 2011.
Left Further Behind: How policies fail the poorest children in New Zealand, Child Poverty Action Group, 2011
Download the report from the Child Poverty Action Group’s website
Women, war and peace
Zainab Salbi
TEDGlobal 2011 – Women, wartime and the dream of peace
What are the stories beyond the frontlines of war? Who are the women who keep everyday life going during conflicts?
Zainab Salbi tells powerful “backline” stories and calls for women to have a place at the negotiating table once fighting is over.
Link to TED video presentation here
Addressing global issues
Jackson Kaguri: Working on a dream – a school for AIDS orphans in Uganda
An inspiring half-hour interview by Kathryn Ryan, Radio NZ National.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Jackson Kaguri runs the Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project. He is Ugandan, but lives in the US and has set up two schools and a medical centre for AIDS orphans in his village back in Uganda. He has also lost family members to AIDs related illnesses.
This interview helps develop understanding about global and development education issues. His book is A School For My Village.
Impacts of economic inequality
Richard Wilkinson
TED Blog – How economic inequality harms societies
Author of The Spirit Level discusses data on economic inequality and the effects of this health, lifespan, and trust for those at both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.
Recorded at TEDGlobal 2011.
Peace and antiwar songs
Access our current list of peace and antiwar songs.
This is a living or dynamic document that will be continually revised and updated. Please download the most recent versions at the time of use.
