Cultural interactions in 1800s NZ
Students inquire into challenges and opportunities created by cultural interactions between tangata whenua and European settlers in 1800s' Aotearoa New Zealand.
Concepts
Culture, diversity, difference, interpretation, perception, understanding, actions, response, impacts.
He Tohu themes: people, living together.
What to do
Discuss the challenges and opportunities
Discuss the challenges and opportunities created by cultural interactions in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1800s.
Examples include challenges and opportunities arising from:
different understandings of, or relationships with, the land
different systems of law and order and/or leadership
different belief systems, ways of thinking, and acting
competing needs and demands of people in different communities
rapid mass immigration of Europeans.
Analyse a challenge or opportunity
Students choose one challenge or opportunity presented by cultural interaction in Aotearoa in the 1800s and answer the following questions:
What factors contributed to this challenge or opportunity?
What was the Māori perspective?
What was the European perspective?
Investigate a key stakeholder
Explain that a 'stakeholder' is a person, group, or organisation that is interested in and/or affected by an event, action, or issue.
Students then choose one stakeholder (person, group, or community) from this time and answer the following questions:
What actions did your stakeholder take in response to this challenge or opportunity?
Why did your stakeholder respond in this way? What did they want to achieve? What was important to them?
What were some impacts of these responses?
Extension
Choose another stakeholder and answer questions 1 to 3 from their perspective.
Some useful resources
Topic Explorer:
New Zealand Curriculum — social sciences
Identity, Culture, and Organisation
Place and Environment
Continuity and Change
Economic World
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