{"id":1773,"date":"2009-12-01T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2009-12-01T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T08:01:17","slug":"te-kohanga-reo%e2%80%94maori-%e2%80%9clanguage-nests%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/12\/01\/te-kohanga-reo%e2%80%94maori-%e2%80%9clanguage-nests%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Te K\u00f6hanga Reo\u2014Maori \u201cLanguage Nests\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kohanga.ac.nz\/\">http:\/\/www.kohanga.ac.nz\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This website describes and provides a history about Maori Language Nests in New Zealand.\u00a0 In the K\u00f6hanga Reo (language nests), young children (often selected from less advantaged homes) are cared for by Maori elders and other adults completely in Maori.\u00a0 The conception, organization and promotion of this very successful initiative were part of a grass-roots effort that began in 1982, as Maori elders became concerned about the future of their language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cnests\u201d or daycare facilities support language revitalization theory by facilitating the transmission of language between generations\u2014what some say is the key to successful revitalization.\u00a0 Language nests led to language classes for the parents, instruction in Maori for school-aged children, and influenced educational policy.\u00a0 This website is a must for anyone who would like to know more about the \u201clanguage nest\u201d model of revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of links that can be navigated throughout the site including an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kohanga.ac.nz\/aboutus.html\">About Us<\/a> section (this gives a great deal of information about the program\u2019s particular details as well as some of the history behind it) and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kohanga.ac.nz\/news.html\">events<\/a> section (various conferences are listed here).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.kohanga.ac.nz\/ This website describes and provides a history about Maori Language Nests in New Zealand.\u00a0 In the K\u00f6hanga Reo (language nests), young children (often selected from less advantaged homes) are cared for by Maori elders and other adults completely in Maori.\u00a0 The conception, organization and promotion of this very successful initiative were part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[6705,1283,840],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4","tag-language-nests","tag-language-revitalization","tag-maori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}