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DecisionMaker Citizenship
Education:
vision, mission, audience, history and team
Photo
source: Raoul Ketko
Anthony
Haas, Publisher
DecisionMaker’s vision:
"Our vision is to contribute to the development of an
inclusive national identity for New Zealand. In our country, and
elsewhere, just as we expect our democracy to work for us, we have
to work for our democracy. This means taking part in the decision-making
process - including voting, participating in public life and contributing
to the business of our nation.
Our focus for human rights is to deal with the relationships
among and between individuals, groups and the State. Those relationships
are about how we live together; and about our responsibilities to
each other."
DecisionMaker mission
"Our mission is to ensure a good level of understanding of
our systems of government assists our democracies to continue to
progress, and that New Zealand and Pacific Citizens will continue
to prosper."
DecisionMaker audience
" The challenge is to ensure that all New Zealanders,
particularly young people, new arrivals and others who do not yet
fully participate, understand the structure and procedures of government,
both central and local – how we operate. Older age groups,
too, need to be kept up to date with significant changes in the
system.
This means that there is a range of target groups and that
we provide a range of approaches across the whole of government
and in the community."
DecisionMaker’s history
The DecisionMaker vision, mission and audience has its roots
in moves to self determination, responsible government and multiculturalism
in New Zealand and its Pacific neighbours, reported and consulted
on by Anthony Haas since the 1960s in 30 countries in Asia and the
Pacific.
Meet the team 2006
DecisionMaker Publisher Anthony Haas, a longtime
associate member of the New Zealand Parliamentary Press Gallery
and former foreign correspondent in Asia and the Pacific, established
the DecisionMaker Guides to Parliament and Government in 1990, following
a passion for citizenship that began with his Honours degree in
Political Science and Public Administration. He is establishment
director of the Centre for Citizenship Education, the Horizon Programme
for the independence of the sight impaired and advocate for blindness
prevention. In 2003 he held a Stout Research residency at Victoria
University, interviewing people who fostered Pacific peoples’
opportunities to have their voices heard, as part of the Being Pa'alagi
programme. He is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Government,
Victoria Univeristy of Wellington, 2004-2007.
The DecisionMaker citizenship education team has gained over the
life of the project from:
Ian Templeton, a Wellington-based journalist on
political and financial affairs, life member of the New Zealand
Parliamentary Press Gallery and senior contributor to Trans Tasman
weekly news service. He has contributed to DecisionMaker Guides
since they began;
Professor Gary Hawke, a Wellington-based economic
historian, Head of the School of Government at Victoria University
and former Director of the Institute of Policy Studies;
Wellington-based Diane Salter, principal of Strategic
Policy Consulting, an organisation that specialises in developing
policy capability, with extensive experience as a public policy
practitioner and as an academic;
Former diplomat and adviser to the Centre for Citizenship education,
Roger Peren, intimately involved in the development
of the citizenship education scoping document, drawing from a network
of people in Parliament, government and education, and guiding DecisionMaker
and other citizenship education.
Other writing is coming from representatives of government and
non-government organisations, who provide branded editorial in case
studies, briefings and profiles.
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DecisionMaker Guide to Parliament and Government
Sixth edition
www.decisionmaker.co.nz
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