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The English word Maori is a borrowing from the Māori language, where it is spelled Māori.In New Zealand, the Māori language is often referred to as te reo [tɛ ˈɾɛ.ɔ] ("the language"), short for te reo Māori ("the Māori language").
The Māori language revival is a movement to promote, reinforce and strengthen the use of the Māori language (te reo Māori).Primarily in New Zealand, but also in places with large numbers of expatriate New Zealanders (such as London and Melbourne), the movement aims to increase the use of Māori in the home, in education, government, and business.
To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Whittaker's released a special edition version of their milk chocolate, rebranded as Miraka Kirīmi (creamy milk) in te reo. [30] The rebranding caused widescale controversy due to racist backlash criticising the rebranding, and sparked a response to support the naming of the chocolate bar in te reo. [31 ...
Te Wānanga o Raukawa was the first tertiary institution with a 'basis in Maori learning' to be established in New Zealand. [ 2 ] Winiata pointed out in 1982 that universities were not well suited to Māori and at the time Victoria University of Wellington was only 1% Māori with a running cost of $25 million.
Te Taka Adrian Gregory Keegan is a New Zealand academic and Māori language revivalist. He is descended from the Waikato - Maniapoto , Ngāti Apakura , Te Whānau-ā-Karuai ki Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Whakaaue iwi .
UCOL is the first to employ a relationships-based teaching approach in a tertiary education setting. Called Te Atakura, [4] the programme was developed with the support of education consultancy Cognition Education Limited [5] and Emeritus Professor Russell Bishop. It is designed to enhance Māori success, develop high performing teaching teams ...
She studied at the University of Auckland for a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts (Hons) in Education, with the title of her 1990 master's thesis Te Kohanga Reo hei tikanga ako i te reo Maori = Te Kohanga Reo as a context for language learning. [1] [3] She then obtained a Diploma in Teaching from the Auckland Teachers' College. [1]
A language nest is an immersion-based approach to language revitalization in early-childhood education. Language nests originated in New Zealand in the 1980s, as a part of the Māori-language revival in that country. [1] The term "language nest" is a calque of the Māori phrase kōhanga reo. In a language nest, older speakers of the language ...