By Amy Ridout on The Post (paywalled)…
The Holocaust will have a place in New Zealand’s secondary school curriculum from next year, in a move welcomed by educators but accompanied by concerns about the prescriptive nature of the curriculum.
The Ministry of Education’s revised year 0-10 social sciences curriculum, released on Wednesday, will be rolled out from 2027.
Students will learn about the Holocaust as part of the year 10 history curriculum, within a broader study of the world wars.
The inclusion comes after more than 500 submissions in support. One of these was from the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, which has long pushed for the topic’s inclusion at secondary school.
Chairperson Deborah Hart said decades after the Holocaust, its lessons remain deeply relevant.
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