Māori as a language medium for educational research and scholarship

Georgina Stewart
unpublished
Te reo Māori is the language of the indigenous Māori people of Aotearoa-New Zealand, and is at the heart of Māori-driven movements of political protest and cultural recovery during recent decades, including initiatives in state education and community language revitalization (Smith, 1990; Webster, 1998). Such initiatives seek to counter the history of assimilation of Māori that dates back to at least the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti) signed between representatives of the Māori tribes and the British
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