by Wendy McGuinness | Aug 28, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
A year ago today 50 participants, supported by 8 facilitators and 10 speakers, gathered at parliament and began drafting a constitution for New Zealand ‘fit for the 21st century’. At the completion of this ambitious exercise, the 50 participants became...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 19, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
The window for submitting on the current constitutional review comes to an end this month, so we thought it might be timely to let you know that we are now preparing and co-ordinating submissions both from (A) the Institute and from (B) the EmpowerNZ participants (the...
by admin | Jul 8, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
Last week the Institute had the pleasure of providing twenty EmpowerNZ participants with a space (and a large jar of jelly beans) so that they could work together to draft a submission to the Constitutional Advisory Panel (CAP). Supported by Mihiata Pirini and Marcelo...
by admin | Jul 4, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
A group of 22 participants from last years EmpowerNZ workshop have arrived at the Institute today to begin work on their group submission on the constitutional review. This afternoon the group will be visiting the Constitution Room at Archives New Zealand and then...
by admin | Apr 23, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
We’ve been thinking a lot about civics education at the Institute this week and it reminded us of this fantastic TED talk. Be inspired as US primary school teacher John Hunter explains how his ‘World Peace Game’ empowered fourth graders so solve all...
