Provocation: Discouraging children from speaking te reo in schools as a strategic Māori initiative
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This article is written as a provocation.By re-examining the practice of discouraging children from speaking te reo Mäori in schools, we challenge our students and other researchers to be alert to the ways in which Mäori are often positioned in critical research.Many otherwise radical accounts that focus on Mäori assimilation into a Western social order unwittingly take a coloniser-centric approach, inevitably representing Mäori as passive non-agents.We ask: Whose actions and motivations are given most attention in our critiques of Mäori experiences?And how are Mäori positioned in our writing as a result?A Mäori-centred narrative, we argue, focuses on Mäori as agents, and gives attention to progressive Mäori educational thought, and Mäori relationality, strategy, determination and survival.
Authors: Te Kawehau Hoskins, Kimai Tocker, Alison Jones
Institution: University of Auckland
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4234813811