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- noun New Zealand A school in
New Zealand that teaches nativeMaori knowledge, instituted by the Education Act of 1990.
Etymologies
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Happy birthday to wananga and gotmoof, who are both great photographers!
B-day wishes drewan 2007
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The woman, who did not want to be named, told the Herald she thought she was going to a Maori genealogy wananga place of learning in Ruatoki, about 15km inland from Whakatane, but was terrified after meeting balaclava-wearing footsoldiers.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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The woman, who did not want to be named, told the Herald she thought she was going to a Maori genealogy wananga place of learning in Ruatoki, about 15km inland from Whakatane, but was terrified after meeting balaclava-wearing footsoldiers.
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-- & Simmons, D.R. 1970, 'The sources of The Lore of the Whare-wananga', Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 79 no. 1, pp. 22-42.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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The complexities of the shift to print can be envisaged from the history of S. Percy Smith's bilingual The Lore of the Whare-wananga (1913, 1915) of edited versions of manuscripts believed to be transcripts of teachings by Wairarapa elders in the 1860s made to preserve their knowledge.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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The provenance of these manuscripts and the scribal role in copying them are explored in Biggs and Simmons's 'The sources of "The Lore of the Whare-wananga"' (1970), and will be further elaborated by Agathe Thornton in a forthcoming book with interesting comparison with a similar transition in Greek oral traditions.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Some polytechnic, wananga and private sector representatives say they're in favour of a single entry standard.
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Some polytechnic, wananga and private sector representatives say they're in favour of a single entry standard.
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At the same time the carvers leave for the Netherlands, kaihoe (paddlers) will assemble for the first of three wananga in Hamilton in preparation for the hand over of the waka taua in
NZ On Screen 2010
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Some polytechnic, wananga and private sector representatives say they're in favour of a single entry standard.
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