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Indigenous Maori and Tongan Perspectives on the Role of Tongan Language and Culture in the Community and in the University in Aotearoa--New Zealand
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Kepa, Mere; Atu, Linita Manu – American Indian Quarterly, 2006
Po Ako, a community-based project, was created to break the experience of absence--cultural alienation and educational exclusion--overwhelming the Tongan students in Aotearoa New Zealand. In January 1991, not a single Tongan student attending Mt. Roskill Grammar School in Auckland passed the national examination for a School Certificate. In May…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Evening Programs, Indigenous Populations