Online | Kimi Haeata, Back our Future: Addressing Inequality in Education

Aotearoa ranks poorly for child wellbeing compared to other wealthy countries. We also have some of the most unequal education outcomes in the OECD between learners on opposite ends of the socioeconomic scale. What can we do as a country to make sure all our tamariki are able to engage in education with the best opportunities to learn?

A recording of this webinar will be sent to all registrants after the event .

Panellists
 

Professor Jenny Ritchie  

 

Jenny Ritchie teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Her experience includes being a childcare worker, kindergarten teacher, parent, Tiriti educator, kōhanga and kura whānau member, teacher educator, researcher, and grandparent.  She focuses on education for social, cultural, ecological and climate justice. 

Niki Penny 

Niki has been a primary educator for more than 20 years. She is an associate member of NZEI Te Riu Roa, currently working as a deputy principal/SENCO, who believes that access to education – without barriers – is a human right. Her own children are her biggest drivers for change. 

 “We need to change the conversation on poverty and see creating equity for all as an 'investment in' rather than a 'cost to' society." 

Professor Lisa Te Morenga 

 

Professor Lisa Te Morenga (Ngati Whātua Ōrākei, Ngāpuhi, Te Uri o Hau, Te Rarawa) is a nutrition and Māori health researcher with the Centre for Public Health Research at Massey University Wellington and co-chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa. Her research focuses on public health interventions that enable all people in Aotearoa to live well,in health-promoting environments. Lisa is a fierce advocate for the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School lunch programme because of its power to shift the inequities in health and education experienced by our most disadvantaged tamariki. 

 

“All tamariki in Aotearoa deserve to thrive.”