Pacific Focused – Teaching & Learning Research Initiative

Pacific Leadership in ECE: Privileging Culture, Community and Enhanced Outcomes

September 17, 2024 No Comments

Our two-year project seeks a deep understanding of how Pacific ECE settings in Aotearoa enact culturally grounded, community-responsive leadership to promote equitable educational outcomes for Pacific children, their families, and communities. In this strengths-based project, we will collaborate with teachers and leaders (the practitioner-researchers), family/community members, and elders from Samoan

Learning From Each Other: A final report

September 12, 2024 No Comments

Introduction Pacific parents and community members have much to contribute to teacher learning and thus to the education of Pacific students. Although the concept of Pacific success, through the education of Pacific students, has become ubiquitous as an aspiration, there has so far been limited research that has conceptualised Pacific

Pathways to the Past: Effective Pedagogies for Māori and Pasifika Students in the Historical Disciplines

April 16, 2024 No Comments

Summary Current research into, and definitions of, historical literacy do not adequately acknowledge the cultural backgrounds of indigenous learners across the historical disciplines and levels. Nor do they recognise the vital role of historical literacy in empowering indigenous students. In talanoa (conversations) with Māori and Pasifika students and teachers of

Pepe meamea in the spirit of the collective: Embedding Samoan indigenous philosophy in ECE for Samoan children under two

April 4, 2024 No Comments

Introduction Our approach to research intentionally engaged processes of co-design whereby the study of pepe meamea (Samoan conceptualisation of infants and toddlers) with our research partners ensured that the values and practices of Samoan Indigenous knowledge systems were privileged throughout all stages of the research. The co-design process we collectively

Category: Pacific Focused

Pacific Leadership in ECE: Privileging Culture, Community and Enhanced Outcomes

Learning From Each Other: A final report

Pathways to the Past: Effective Pedagogies for Māori and Pasifika Students in the Historical Disciplines

Pepe meamea in the spirit of the collective: Embedding Samoan indigenous philosophy in ECE for Samoan children under two