The Value of the Maori Language

The Value of the Maori Language

Author: Rawinia Higgins

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2014-05-16

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1775502821

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Twenty-five years ago the Māori Language Act was passed, but research still finds that the Māori language is dying. This collection looks at the state of the language since the Act, how the language is faring in education, media, texts and communities and what the future aspirations for the language are.


Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages

Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages

Author: Mari C. Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-08-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1316352412

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Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community. This wide-ranging volume, which explores linguistic scenarios from across five continents, seeks to ignite the debate as to how and whether the interface between people, politics and language can affect the fortunes of endangered varieties. With chapters written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and members of indigenous communities on the frontline of language support and maintenance, Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages is essential reading for researchers and students of language death, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, as well as community members involved in native language maintenance.


Home: Here to Stay

Home: Here to Stay

Author: Mere Kepa

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1775502724

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This is a collection of twelve academic essays that consider understandings of home and the impact of dominant societies on indigenous societies and their homes. The book covers home and language preservation, homelessness, retention of land, tobacco use in the home, loss of home through trauma and natural disaster, ageing and health, and the meaning of home. This is the third book in the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Edited Collections series.


Perspectives on Indigenous writing and literacies

Perspectives on Indigenous writing and literacies

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9004298509

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Exploring Indigenous writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the contemporary challenges facing Indigenous writing and literacies and argues that innovative and creative ideas can create a hopeful future for Indigenous writing. Contributions following the themes ‘Sketching the Context’, ‘Enhancing Writing’, and ‘Creating the Future’ are concluded with two reflective chapters evidencing the importance of volume’s thesis for the future of Indigenous writing and literacies. This volume encourages the development of research in this area, specifically inviting the international writing research community to engage with Indigenous peoples and support research on the nexus of Indigenous writing, literacies and education.


Always Speaking

Always Speaking

Author: Veronica Tawhai

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1775500209

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This is a collection of papers that examine the current place of the Treaty of Waitangi in core public policy areas. The authors analyse the tensions and dynamics in the relationship between Maori and the Crown in their areas of expertise, detail the key challenges being faced, and provide insights on how these can be overcome. The policy areas covered in the collection span the environment, Maori and social development, health, broadcasting, the Maori language, prison and the courts, local government, research, science and technology, culture and heritage, foreign affairs, women's issues, labour, youth, education, economics, housing and the electoral system.


Education in Languages of Lesser Power

Education in Languages of Lesser Power

Author: Craig Alan Volker

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9027269580

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The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power, especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of such communities. Some receive strong government support, while others receive none. For some indigenous languages, the same government schools that once tried to stamp out indigenous languages are now the vehicles of language revival. As the various chapters in this book show, some parents strongly support the use of languages other than the national language in education, while others are actively against it, and perhaps a majority have ambivalent feelings. The overall meta-theme that emerges from the collection is the need to view the teaching and learning of these languages in relation to the different needs of the speakers within a sociolinguistics of mobility.


Social Scaffolding

Social Scaffolding

Author: Richard Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1911623044

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An approach to designing health care that explores how social factors and social identity determine health and recovery.