by admin | May 30, 2018 | Project CivicsNZ
Think Piece 29 – Civics and Citizenship Education in New Zealand: A case for change? and Working Paper 2018/02 – Civics and Citizenship Education in New Zealand Schools: Current state have now been published as accompanying documents to the Policy Quarterly (vol 3,...
by admin | Sep 6, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ
The McGuinness Institute is non-partisan but we do have a strong interest in democracy and in having all New Zealanders (especially young New Zealanders) engaged with the political process and sharing their thoughts. For this reason, with the General Election only...
by admin | Aug 11, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ
In January 2017 the Institute met with Jocelyn Kua and Toni Weir from the Electoral Commission to discuss how the Institute might help increase voter engagement for the 2017 general election. As a follow on from that meeting and as part of our 2017 CivicsNZ work...
by admin | May 25, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ
On the evening of Wednesday 17 May a diverse group of forty individuals gathered at the McGuinness Institute office to workshop the idea of a civics strategy in New Zealand. The purpose of the event was to explore the current state of civics and citizenship education...
by admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ
Tuesday 11 April saw the launch of Max Harris’s book The New Zealand Project at the Royal Society of New Zealand. The launch featured Harris in conversation with Māmari Stephens, discussing his ideas. One of Harris’s key goals for the book is to get people in a...
