Abstract:
Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city and the biggest concentration of Pacific Island people in the world. The number of Pacific Island students is rising rapidly and there is an urgent need to ensure educational content is appropriate to all students’ needs. Recently changes have occurred with the development of a new school curriculum. Amongst many changes, two new terms ‘enterprise’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ have been included. This drove this investigation to see whether different cultures interpret these terms in a similar fashion. It became clear that they don’t. This paper briefly outlines the differing interpretations and discusses the implications for teaching.
