Teacher-only planning note
Kaiako can use this handout to help students compare who holds power, whose wellbeing counts, and what success looks like under different economic models. The quality move is to treat kaupapa Māori economics as living contemporary practice, not as a decorative cultural add-on beside two “real” systems.
Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.
How this handout aligns
The comparison grid asks students to trace who decides, whose voices carry weight, and what outcomes follow. That directly supports discussion of how different group structures shape community life in Aotearoa.
A strong fit when kaiako want more than definitions and need students to reason about power, fairness, and resource allocation.
Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges.
How this handout aligns
The local challenge section moves students from abstract comparison into action thinking. They have to test each model against housing, taiao, kai insecurity, or youth employment and decide what collective response is actually plausible.
Most useful when students are ready to compare competing responses rather than search for one “correct” ideology.
Comparison pedagogy should keep kaupapa Māori approaches grounded in whenua, whanaungatanga, kaitiakitanga, and rangatiratanga.
Teacher-only note
The resource is strongest when kaiako add local or current examples of iwi enterprise, community-owned services, or whānau-centred development. Avoid presenting kaupapa Māori economics as simply “nice values” without governance, ownership, and intergenerational responsibility.
That contextual layer is what stops the comparison from defaulting back to a generic civics worksheet.
Use this after students have seen inequality or budget pressure so they have something concrete to compare systems against.
How to use this resource
Pair it after Wealth Inequality Simulation or Budget Reality Simulation. The sequence works because students arrive with a real problem in mind and then use the grid to test different responses.
Strongest in discussion, debate, or extended writing sequences where the class must justify a position.