{"id":3921,"date":"2010-10-14T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T07:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/small-languages-not-being-looked-after\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:49","slug":"small-languages-not-being-looked-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/small-languages-not-being-looked-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Small languages NOT being looked after"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent blogpost<\/a> I mentioned the decline of Cook Island M\u0101ori and Niue. I later learned that there had been some support for the use of these in schools – in 2007 the then NZ Education Minister Steve Maharey announced guidelines<\/a> for using Niue in early childhood education in NZ schools, joining other Pasifika languages (Samoan and Cook Island M\u0101ori).
\nNow the current NZ Government has decided<\/a> to ditch 33 Pasifika bilingual education units. What evidence did they use to justify this? They clearly haven’t studied what has happened in the NT following their decision to stop bilingual education. There’s no sign<\/a> yet that the NT changes are producing good educational results. And looking to a distant future, saying change is slow, doesn’t help those kids in classes right now.
\nI don’t know if they discussed this decision with the families. If they did not, then the message this sends the children and their families is that your wishes, your views on education and your languages are of no value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent blogpost I mentioned the decline of Cook Island M\u0101ori and Niue. I later learned that there had been some support for the use of these in schools – in 2007 the then NZ Education Minister Steve Maharey announced guidelines for using Niue in early childhood education in NZ schools, joining other Pasifika … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}