Te Hunga Whaitake, the Newsmakers. 29/07/2009

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2009
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Year
2009
Reference
56042
Media type
Audio
Item unavailable online
Duration
00:30:00
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
RNZ Collection
Husband, Dale
Mataira, Kāterina, 1932-2011

Hosted by Dale Husband with one-on-one, in-depth interviews. A weekly half-hour programme in English focusing on the newsmakers of the day.
Broadcast on Radio Waatea with funding from New Zealand On Air, 603AM Auckland and broadcast throughout the Iwi Radio and Access Radio Networks in New Zealand. 10am to 10:30am every Wednesday.

Introduction and Welcome.
Guests today are;

Dr. Katerina te Heikoko Mataira: Author, Artist and Academic born in Tokomaru Bay in the 1930s. Started her first Māori Language Class in a State School, Northland College in Kaikohe in 1956.

Dale talks with Katarina about her Life teaching Te Reo Māori throughout Aotearoa using a method she developed with Ngoingoi Pewhairangi called "Te Ataarangi" developed during the late 1970's based on a Teaching method developed by Caleb Cattengo for learning a second language that utilised coloured rods. This method was highly effective in direct contrast to the grammar based, academic approaches of language learning.

On Monday 27th July 2009, Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira was the recipient of the 2009 Linguapax Prize presented this year by Professor Miguel Angel Essombe, a representative for the Linguapax Institute based in Barcelona, Spain, established by UNESCO and dedicated to the preservation and promotion of linguistic diversity worldwide.

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