Conflict, Power and Place

This unit focuses on conflicts between and within countries in order to answer the questions:

• To what extent does the exercise of power have an impact on how we view and interpret conflict in the past, and affect the mana of those involved?

• To what extent is the significance of places, people and events shown through the ways in which they are remembered and commemorated through constructed historical narrative?

Learning Intentions:

1. Explore the causes and consequences of a chosen conflict

2. Explore the exercise of power and mana around and within the chosen conflict

3. Explore the significance of a place, people, or events linked to the chosen conflict, and how this place, person or events are remembered and commemorated differently over time

4. Develop a narrative about a chosen conflict using historical concepts and selected evidence

5. Investigate 2 case studies about how conflicts of significance to New Zealanders have shaped the lives of people and society (E.g. Direct significance: Internal wars (Musket Wars, NZ Wars), Boer War, First World War, Korea, Malaya, Borneo, Vietnam. Indirect significance: Spanish Civil War, Iraq War, etc…).

Achievement Standards covered:

1.2 (92025) Demonstrate understanding of the significance of a historical context.

1.3 (92026) Demonstrate understanding of historical concepts in contexts of significance to Aotearoa New Zealand 

Concepts:

Mana, Conflict, Power, Place, Pūrākau and pakiwaitara, Narrative, Source, Cause and effect, Continuity and Change, Significance, Wāhi Tapu 

Big Ideas:

• Power relationships often drive history

• Place shapes the historical narratives of peoples