Home and Parents

Te Ao Hou, December 1962, Page 53

Home and Parents Under the heading of home and parents the board seeks active co-operation with all organisations which have influence with the Maori people. It will issue a pamphlet to inform Maori parents of vocational opportunities for their children, and the educational requirements for such vocations, and it will ask the Minister of Education to have a Maori teacher made liaison officer between the Maori Education Foundation, Maori District Council, district educational advancement committees and Maori communities. It will also seek the help of the New Zealand Libraries Association and the National Library Service in a campaign to encourage reading among the Maori people. The Maori Women's Welfare League will be asked to arrange for each branch to appoint a member as a local education publicity officer. Under the heading of pre-school education the board will ask the New Zealand Free Kindergarten Union and the New Zealand Play Centre Federation to encourage the enrolment of Maori children, and it will help in setting up new play centres. The Minister of Education will be asked for a suitable Maori teacher or kindergarten supervisor to work on strengthening the pre-school stage of the child's development, and to develop a type of play centre equipment that would be readily familiar to Maori children.