Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 13, 2017 17:24:22 GMT 12
COMPULSORY TE REO MĀORI IN SCHOOLS – TWO ACADEMICS, TWO VIEWS
Associate Professor Sharon Harvey and Professor of History Paul Moon share their different perspectives on compulsory Māori in schools.
Māori should be compulsory in schools
By Associate Professor Sharon Harvey
Māori should be compulsory in New Zealand schools. New Zealand has an obligation under the Treaty of Waitangi to protect arguably, Māori’s greatest taonga and the only language that is indigenous to New Zealand, te reo Māori......
Compulsory Te Reo Māori: The final nail in the coffin
By Professor Paul Moon
With Te Reo facing the very real prospect of disappearing as a living language, its fate is too serious to be left to the whim of policy opportunists.
Compulsion in schools has never revived an indigenous language anywhere in the world. It is an inherently failed approach to reversing a language in decline......
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Associate Professor Sharon Harvey and Professor of History Paul Moon share their different perspectives on compulsory Māori in schools.
Māori should be compulsory in schools
By Associate Professor Sharon Harvey
Māori should be compulsory in New Zealand schools. New Zealand has an obligation under the Treaty of Waitangi to protect arguably, Māori’s greatest taonga and the only language that is indigenous to New Zealand, te reo Māori......
Compulsory Te Reo Māori: The final nail in the coffin
By Professor Paul Moon
With Te Reo facing the very real prospect of disappearing as a living language, its fate is too serious to be left to the whim of policy opportunists.
Compulsion in schools has never revived an indigenous language anywhere in the world. It is an inherently failed approach to reversing a language in decline......
tinyurl.com/lc7yfz5