dc.contributor.author |
Matapo, Jacoba |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
Tāmaki Makaurau - Auckland, Aotearoa - New Zealand |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-02-26T22:27:30Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2018-11-13 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/45411 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This presentation is based upon a one-year pilot critical participatory action research (CPAR) project within the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. The embodied approaches of engagement within this project align with Pacific history, traditional Pacific knowledge(s) and contemporary Pacific research methodology. The embedding of Pacific cultural onto-epistemology is at the centre of all phases of the project with the main foci for data collection and theorising; being that of a decolonising agenda (Smith, 2012). Traditionally, teaching the art of wayfinding included specific tools that engaged learners with the complexities of navigation. One such tool is known as the shell map which plots Islands, ocean swells, currents and winds. As a (CPAR) the metaphor of shell maps and wayfinding are used in the planned interventions of the project as a cartographic method, to map, reconnect and determine what the University currently provides by way of Pasifika support. Talanoa (Vaioleti, 2006) in this study engages collective contributons, in face to face dialogue, self-reflection and interventions (with shell maps). The aim is to foster authentic relationships amongst the group and together theorise personal practice and understandings of Pasifika success within the university. Such approaches are supported within the key tenets of CPAR, “We re-affirm that the purpose of critical participatory action research is to change social practices, including research practice itself, to make them more rational and reasonable, more productive and sustainable, and more just and inclusive” (Kemmis McTaggart Nixon, 2014, p 2). The embodied engagement in the making of shell-maps act as a provocation for Pasifika students and Pasifika academics to explore their perceptions of success. In addition to the shell map making process Pasifika students and staff were invited to take photographs of their environment, specifically locations that were most pertinent to their conceptualisations of Pasifika success. The sharing of photographs during the talanoa provoked further dialogue regarding spaces within the university that are significant for engagement, contribution and belonging. Utilising both postcolonial and poststructural paradigms, this research attempts to collectively map ‘notions of success’ to re-imagine using embodied and creative expressions with shell maps. In generating talanoa and engaging in already constructed and emerging meanings, an analyses of deep structure(s) which include cultural and professional understandings of success in higher education are evoked. Drawing upon and questioning deep structures of truth may create new ‘spaces’ for difference, providing an emergent understanding to the ways of being and becoming as Pasifika succeeding (as students and academics) within the University. The aim of this study is for all University staff and students to connect to the vision of Pasifika success, that is Pasifika success as Pasifika. Strengthening collaboration of all lecturers and teaching staff with Pasifika support staff to strengthen cultural awareness and engagement in cultural practices that are conducive to Pasifika success. |
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dc.description.uri |
http://mediacentre.maramatanga.ac.nz/content/2018-conference |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
International Indigenous Research Conference |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
The art of wayfinding: Navigating Pasifika success in higher education |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
International indigenous research conference |
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dc.type |
Conference Item |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.author-url |
http://www.indigenousresearchconference.ac.nz/abstracts-and-programme |
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pubs.finish-date |
2018-11-16 |
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pubs.start-date |
2018-11-13 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Abstract |
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pubs.elements-id |
756438 |
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pubs.org-id |
Education and Social Work |
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pubs.org-id |
Critical Studies in Education |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2018-11-16 |
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