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SUMMARY:The Unintended Outcomes of Institutionalising Ethnicity: The Case 
 of Maori Education in New Zealand - Associate Professor Elizabeth Rata\, F
 aculty of Education\, The University of Auckland
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:Education systems in liberal-democratic countries with ethnica
 lly diverse populations face a common problem: How to increase participati
 on and achievement by minority groups yet maintain the role of schools as 
 integrating institutions for the national polity. In this presentation I d
 raw on three decades of my research into biculturalism in New Zealand. Foc
 using on Maori education in particular I compare the intentions of the ear
 ly biculturalists with the present situation to ask: What is the current s
 tate of the separate Maori education system created by the biculturalists?
  Has separate Maori education revived the Maori language? What about the a
 chievement of Maori children? What is the situation of Maori children in m
 ainstream education? And finally: What are the consequences of institution
 alising ethnicity in education for New Zealand’s liberal-democratic soci
 ety?
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, room 2S4
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