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- Title
- Frontline - Kura Kaupapa
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
This Frontline report looks at kura kaupapa, which began in Aotearoa in 1981. The Māori language immersion schools were a response to a mainstream education system that was failing many Māori. An act of language preservation and cultural empowerment, the movement began with kōhanga reo (Māori language preschools), followed by full immersion primary schools, and later high schools. Pita Sharples, who founded the first kura kaupapa — at Auckland's Hoana Waititi Marae — talks to reporter Ross St...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1994
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/frontline-kura-kaupapa-1994
- Related subjects
- pita sharples / frontline / susan wood / ross stevens / māori / education / māori education / te reo / te reo māori / learning / teaching / kōhanga / kura kaupapa / kura reo / reikura morgan / hoani ashby / monowai panoho / rumaki / rumaki reo / immersion school / māori language students / māori language immersion schools / hoani waititi marae / georgina stewart / victoria university / exclusionary language / native schools / integration / adrienne alton-lee / classroom
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