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Removing te reo Māori from children's books 'damaging step backwards' - academic

A leading Māori studies academic says Education Minister Erica Stanford's decision to remove te reo Māori from new early-reading books is "a dangerous move" that breaches both Te Tiriti o Waitangi and ...
Polygon

Disney has landed in the middle of a fight over an Indigenous language

For decades, the New Zealand government in Aotearoa has tried to eliminate te reo Māori, the language of the Indigenous Polynesian people of Aotearoa. Thus far, it’s failed. While the current ...
The Conversation

Saved from extinction? New modelling suggests a hopeful future for te reo Māori

Michael Miller is a PhD scholar funded by Te Pūnaha Matatini – New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington provides funding as a ...
The Conversation

Language is a ‘central element in being Māori’ – using structured literacy to teach te reo misses the point

Brian Tweed worked for the Ministry of Education as a contractor in 2024 working on the Pāngarau (mathematics) curriculum. Pania Te Maro was contracted by the Ministry of Education as a lead writer ...