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15 - Indigenous Languages, Standardization and Curricular Development

The Case of the Maāori Language Mathematics Lexicon

from Part III - Norms, Literacy and Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

By
Tony Trinick  and
Stephen May
Edited by
Wendy Ayres-Bennett  and
John Bellamy
Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
John Bellamy
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

As a result of New Zealand’s colonial history, the indigenous Maori language was excluded from schooling (formally) and from a number of other language domains (informally) for over 100 years. By the late 1970s, Maori was considered an endangered language, heading towards extinction. In response, various grassroots Maori communities initiated Maori-medium education, which required, amongst other linguistic challenges, the rapid development of a corpus of terms to enable the teaching of all subjects in the Maori language. Eventually, Maori-medium schooling became state funded, which was accompanied by a requirement by the state agency which controlled education to standardize the corpus of terms for schooling. In this paper, we explore the challenges associated with the (re)development of te reo Maori in the 1980s and 1990s as an educationally standardized indigenous language in relation to one key curriculum area: pangarau (mathematics). This includes analysing the key role of top-down agents and agencies in the standardization of the pangarau lexicon and register. The chapter also examines the influence of the agents’ linguistic ideologies on subsequent corpus development that still determines the codification of terms thirty years later.

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indigenous languageMaori-medium schoolingcorpus developmentlinguistic ideologieslanguage puritydialectslanguage planning agents and agenciesmathematics
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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization , pp. 421 - 441
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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