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Ko Te Kōhanga Reo – Dr Arapera Royal-Tangaere | Tuia Te Ako 2022
Dr. Arapera passionately shares her personal journey within the Kōhanga Reo movement, emphasising the transformative impact of the immersion approach on language acquisition, the significance of preserving cultural customs, and the vital role of Te Kōhanga Reo in nurturing intergenerational language transmission and cultural heritage among Māori families.
About the speaker
Dr Arapera Royal-Tangaere
Te Arawa (Ngāti Uenukukopako Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue), Ngāti Raukawa (Ngāti Wehiwehi, Ngāti Kikopiri), Kaitahu whānui descent.
PhD (Auckland) MA 1st Hons (Auckland); BA (Otago), Dip Tchg (Auckland), Te Tohu Mātauranga Whakapakari Tino Rangatiratanga o Te Kōhanga Reo (2019).
Arapera Royal Tangaere is currently a Pou Ako at Te Kohanga Reo National Trust. She has been involved in early childhood since 1975 and with Te Kōhanga Reo since 1982. Arapera has written many papers on early childhood and Te Kōhanga Reo and has been a keynote speaker at numerous early childhood and indigenous conferences, nationally and internationally.
Arapera completed her doctoral study in 2012 Te Hokinga ki te Ūkaipō: A socio-cultural construction of Māori language development: Kōhanga Reo and Home. The thesis focuses on the socio-cultural relationships between children and whānau and how these interactions contribute to the construction of the children’s own te reo Māori development in Te Kōhanga Reo and in their home. In 2022 she was awarded the Companion New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) for her work with Te Kōhanga Reo.
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