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He Puna Kōrero (Vol. 1, Issue 1)
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2000-10)
He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Māori and Pacific Development, Volume 1, Issue 1.
Murau a te tini (Mourned by the multitudes) & Pounamu (Greenstone)
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2000-10) Rewi, Poia
A song and a poem by Poia Rewi.
Governance and legitimacy: Indigenous development in Aotearoa
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2000-10) Dodd, Materoa
Within the indigenous paradigm lies a paradox over what constitutes legitimate Māori authority: Iwi structures are legitimated and recognised by the state, and traditional forms (for example, Hapū and Māori women), have had their authority diminished. Iwi authorities are colonial constructs that diminish the rights of Hapū and Māori women. The manner in which such constructs have come about generally has not involved tribewide debate over important issues in which Hapū and Māori women have an interest. For their legitimacy, emergent self-governing structures will need to be grounded in principles that ensure legitimate representation of Māori people and not socially constructed hybrids of a colonial past. Structures need to recognise Hapū and Māori women in the formulation, anything less than this will trigger a legitimation crisis.
Issues in testing the proficiency of learners of indigenous languages: An example relating to young learners of Māori
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2000-10) Crombie, Winifred; Houia, Waldo; Reedy, Tamati
In 1999 the New Zealand Ministry of Education commissioned the authors to develop and trial a Māori language proficiency test. The test was to be appropriate for students in Year 5 of schooling (aged 9/10) who were being educated wholly, or in part, through the medium of Māori language. In this paper, we discuss the development and trialling of that proficiency test, focusing on the problems we experienced as well as on the test itself and on the ways in which it can be further developed. We also consider the implications of this project for the development of proficiency tests for other indigenous languages.
Verbs in Māori: The problem of definitional criteria
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2000-10) Whaanga, Hēmi
A range of different types of criteria has been applied at different points in the history of the classification of verbs in Māori. These have included syntactic and morphological criteria, semantic criteria and derivational criteria. Unfortunately, these criteria have not always been applied consistently and this has led to considerable disagreement about the classification of verbs in Māori. In this paper, different accounts of verb classification in Māori are critically examined and it is argued that some of the disagreements can be resolved by acknowledging (a) that words in Māori may be assigned to different word classes in different contexts, and (b) that word classes and sub-classes should be determined on the basis of morphological and syntactic criteria with semantic and derivational information playing a role only in so far as they have observable syntactic and/or morphological consequences.