<font size="2">the article says :<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
<i>"... te reo Maori teacher Lincoln Savage says the initiative aims to give students an insight and perspective into te ao Maori (the Maori world)." These are the future leaders of our country so improving the understanding between our cultures can only be a good thing," he said.</i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">and...</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
"<i>When they go to university to do law and medicine there will be a Maori component to those papers, so this work will give them a better perspective of how to work with and treat Maori families."</i></p></span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">This approach is much more advanced than anything in the States or Canada.</div><div class="gmail_quote">The course is not necessarily to create fluent speakers, as it is to nurture</div><div class="gmail_quote">
a fuller understanding of the indigenous <i>thinking ways </i>of Maori people</div><div class="gmail_quote">for those who choose to live on Maori islands...Aotearoa.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
It's Native American Awareness Month here in Oklahoma,</div><div class="gmail_quote">and we are busy in the public school giving CRAM/CRASH courses </div><div class="gmail_quote">(in 40 to 20 minute sessions!) on our own different tribal heritages.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">like giving each student a half kernel of wild rice and asking them how it tastes.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ok..., sure, it's a beginning, after years of suppression and stereotype</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">but its only creating a wonderful NDN classroom shelf that might be</div><div class="gmail_quote">left pretty much bare for the rest of the year for many schools</div><div class="gmail_quote">who do not offer or require Native Studies as part of the curriculum.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">ske:noh</div><div class="gmail_quote">Richard Zane Smith</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Peter J Keegan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pjkeeganwh@xtra.co.nz">pjkeeganwh@xtra.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I know the teacher that has been hired to teach in that school. He
has spent many years in Maori-medium schools, I think his partner
still teaches in a Maori-medium school.<br>
Perhaps one day he may return to a Maori-medium school or continue
his contribution to Maori-medium education in some way.<br>
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Peter J Keegan<br>
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On 19/11/2010 9:36 a.m., Keola Donaghy wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Aloha kākou, I thought that the timing of this article
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<div>"<span style="font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Te reo Maori is finding a home in
one of the country's most prestigious schools. </span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Earlier this year, exclusive Auckland
private school King's College made te reo Maori a compulsory
subject for all Year Nine students."</span></div>
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<div>On 2010 ʻOk. 26, at 16:57, Peter J Keegan wrote:</div>
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Personally, I also find calls for compulsory language
instruction somewhat difficult to understand. New Zealand
in recent decades did have compulsory language in many
high schools, no guesses as to what happened. In the case
of Maori, making Maori compulsory would have a negative
effect on the Maori-medium education sector, which would
lose Maori teachers to English medium schools that would
offer better working conditions.<br>
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Given the state of the New Zealand economy, and a
government cutting back on education spending, the
compulsory teaching of Maori is unlikely to make the
discussion table.<br>
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A hui hou (Pepeluali)<br>
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On 27/10/2010 9:39 a.m., Keola Donaghy wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><font face="Arial">Interesting.
Regarding his statement "</font><span style="line-height:18px"><font face="Arial">People argued
that making it compulsory would turn children off,
but that theory had never been tested" - Prof. Reedy
obviously hasn't spoken to anyone regarding
compulsory Irish.</font></span>
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2010 ʻOk. 26, at 10:27, Phillip E Cash Cash
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Laurel Stowell | 27th October 2010<br>
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Maori language ought to be compulsory in New
Zealand schools, says<br>
Professor Tamati Reedy. That's his personal
opinion. And those<br>
attending a series of hui on the future of
the language are saying<br>
people ought to value it at least as highly
as the country's native<br>
birds and plants.<br>
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Access full article below:<br>
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