Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu: how can language and literacy be optimised for Māori learner success?

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This report explores success in literacy and language learning for Māori adults. It captures the perspectives of Māori tutors and students who were or undertaking, or considering, tertiary education at introductory, foundation or certificate level.

Author(s): Hera White, Tania Oxenham, Marion Tahana, Kim Williams and Kimi Matthews, Waikato Institute of Technology

Date Published: August 2009

He Mihi

Ka mātakitaki iho au i te riu o Waikato
Anō nei hei kapo ake māku ki te kapu o taku ringa
Kia whakamiri noa i tōna aratau e tia nei he tipu pua hou
Kia hiwa ake i te tihi o Pirongia, inā hei toronga whakaruruhau mōna
Ki tōku tauawhirotanga!
Anā! Te ngoto i tōna ngāwhā i ōna uma!
Kīhai i arikarika a Maungatautari, a Maungakawa
Ōku puke maunga ngā taonga tuku iho
Hoki ake nei au ki taku awa koiora me ōna pikonga
He kura tangihia o te mātāmuri
E whakawhiti atu ai i te Kōpū-mania-o-Kirikiriroa
Me ōna māra kai, te ngāwhā whakatipu o te whenua mōmona
Hei kawe ki Ngaruawahia te huinga o te tangata
Arā! Te pae haumaeko, he okiokinga mō taku upoko
Hei tirohanga atu mā raro i ngā hūhā o Taupiri
Kei reira rā te orokohanga o te tangata
Wāhia te tūnga o te whare, te whakaputanga o te Kīngi.

(Tūkaroto Tawhiao Matutaera Potatau Te Wherowhero, 1872)

Ki a koutou ngā kaikawe, ngā kaihautū o ngā taonga tuku iho a kui mā a koro mā, kua waihotia i roto i ōu ringa ngā kawakawa hei rongoa, hei tīpare, hei raukura mō ngā ūpoko pakaru rānō – he mihi mutunga kore ki a koutou katoa. Tīhei mauri ora.

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