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Kōrero: Te reo Māori – the Māori language

Mā te rākau hei whakaako

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The rākau method

Ko 1981 te tau, ko te Te Whanganui-a-Tara te takiwā, ko Billie-Tait Jones nō Ngāi Tūhoe kei te whāngai i te reo mā te tikanga o te rākau, ki ngā whaea me ā rātou tamariki nohinohi. Maui ki te matau: ko Maria Brocherie rāua ko Shane (e 2), ko Sue Mihaere rāua ko Petera (e 2), ko Lorraine Hoff rāua ko Rachel, ko Billie Tait-Jones. Ko te tikanga ako mā ngā rakau karakara, i takea mai i te tikanga ako ‘Silent Way’, ka naomia atu e Kataraina Te Heikōkō Mataira hei tikanga whakaako i te reo Māori.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1981/2608/11

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, Te reo Māori – the Māori language – Revitalising te reo, 1970s and 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/41083/ma-te-rakau-hei-whakaako (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 13 March 2013, updated 1 September 2015.