213 ethnicities in NZ
44% of Auckland
For education it means catering for multicultural- cultural capability .
160 spoken languages in NZ
School is important-learning about NZ, leadership, sports
16 key skills for 21st Century lit , num , cultural competency
Cultural competency of teaching staff
Learning backgrounds from rote to problem solving on continuum
employers , IQ, E I , Cultural Intelligence
Multi cultural country with a bi cultural base
Implications of super diversity for education.
fair nation , racially harmonious
Younger generation , maori, pasifika and asian.
Notes of DP Colleague who also attended.
NZ is diverse - 25% not born there
Diversity increasing - Asian will be bigger than Maori by 2025??
Diversion spreading out due to points systems
Half farm hands are nor born in NZ
250 odd ethnicities in NZ
18 schools in NZ with no Anglo Saxons.
160 languages spoken
Without school she would have been lost, it is where she learnt everything about NZ.
Cultural awareness is a key skill of the 21st century
And we need to know more about Asia.
NZ is ahead of this in many ways.
Auckland is the 4th most diverse city in works and biggest Pasifika city.
Need to adapt the way we teach and assess.
Many rote learners and not problem solvers (amongst our migrants).
They need to jump same hurdles as locals but need to start from where they are.
Language and speed of talking and accent - issues for migrants.
How are we going to help these students succeed?
First generation migrants - We need to help these people get jobs.
Therefore help employers - how to employ these students.
Things will flip prediction.
In future not just IQ and EQ but cultural intelligence to not assume all people have the same religion language etc as you.
Teach, work with and manage people that are not like us.
Discrimination. It's depressing.
Most discriminated against are Asians, particularly in employment.
Reluctance to take on Asians workers even if they have the desire able skills.
Not recognised that they bring knowledge and skills.
3.4 billion Asian market 10 hours away.
Recruit from the market to service the market.
More you recruit from that market the more successful you will be in that market.
Does the staffing have the same pattern as the students? Probably not.
And if there, they are in lower tiers earning less.
Conversations about this need to happen in university's.
It's not about race it's about our economy.
Mai's super diversity stocktake. You can pay to download it.
21% less salary for migrants.
Ethnic super diversity has happened we need to understand change has already happened.
Many immigrants using different media also so mainstream media worries they are losing customers.
Who is the best group to think critically about this. It's academia.
We should be aiming to be the most super diverse country - this should be a positive.
Maori have more in common with Asians than Europeans and yet Maori are racist against Asians.
Maori may be worried about being overwhelmed by new NZers.
So we need to think about what it is to be a kiwi
And what can we flex on compromise.
We need to do more thinking and writing about our multicultural country on a bicultural base.
Schools are at the coal face of super diversity.
Heading towards being a country's with no majority's ethnicity.
And the stats put europeans as being the oldest group.
Who are you and who will be running the country when you are old?
You need new eyes to see it is still NZ but it has demographically transformed.
Dual culture not bicultural.
You never give up any of your own but you flex and build a bridge to the other culture.
Mai used the scenario of the fish to explain how limited we are in thinking about other cultures needs, our economy and how to use our resources effectively. Currently we catch the fish, fillet it, throw away the head and skeleton. In Asia the head is the most prized part of the fish - why do we not export them? It is so wasteful. And the skeleton could be processed into a fish stock. Fish flavour is the basis of so much asian cuisine and we waste this. Our thinking is not clever.
This presentation confirmed for me that HES is a super diverse school. We take it very much for granted but we need to change our thinking on this. Acknowledge and celebrate it for what it is, think outside the box on how to best meet the needs of our super diverse clients.
Also the concept of 'flexing' on what you will compromise on.
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