The Aotearoa Educators’ Collective

I had never heard of the Aotearoa Educators’ Collective, until they were quoted at length in this Newsroom article, criticising the Government’s curriculum refresh. I looked up their website and found this is their policy platform:

• The primary responsibility for schooling is to create critical creative citizens invested in participatory democracy with capacity to combat social injustice.
• Education should address long seated inequities and injustice through curriculum design.
• Success at school cannot be reduced to achievement in literacy and numeracy

So they want schools focus on giving students the capacity to be social justice activists, and to deprioritise literacy and numeracy.

If they are unhappy with what the Government is doing, this can only be a very good thing.