Browsing Social Practice by Subject "Pasifika"
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The effectiveness of the Incredible Years parenting programme for Tongan parents
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTIONS What were the participants’ experiences of being parented/parenting growing up in Tonga and here in New Zealand? What are the experiences of Tongan parents participating in Tongan and mainstream ... -
Fakalotofaleʻia : a sanctuary of wisdom in the supervision relationship.
(2014-05)Fakalotofaleʻia = is the process where the sensitivity of all things happening is observed and respected. Inter relational system that is used to engage, seek, and receive information. Happens within the fale and its ... -
Mālie and māfana : a transformational approach to research with a vulnerable indigenous community
(2019-10)This paper reports on an innovation in research practice developed during the course of a project involving work with vulnerable Pacific (Tongan) youth. It proposes an extension of the Kakala Research Framework, designed ... -
Perceptions of community safety in West Auckland and white fragility.
(2017-02)Unitec and Community Waitakere have recently completed a Lottery’s Foundation funded project looking at the contemporary issues affecting the perceptions of safety in West Auckland communities. A review of eight recent ... -
Polynesians in Auckland
(2006)This paper compares some recent films set in the contested terrains of Auckland - sometimes called the biggest Polynesian city. The film Once Were Warriors depicts the violence and despair of Maori life in the outer suburbs. ... -
The scope of talanoa research methodology within a postgraduate curriculum
(2020-11-19)Introduction Context Talanoa methodology Values of talanoa(Pan-Pacific) Principles of talanoa research Talanoaas methodology and method Talanoa and non-Pacific methods The scope of Talanoa methodology References -
Taleni seki atagina: Te akasakiga o kaaiga Tuvalu seki nofo tumau iluga i Aotearoa Niusila = Hidden gems - lived experiences of Tuvaluan hope seekers and their families in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Unitec Institute of Technology & Tuvalu Auckland Community Trust, 2021-12-13)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: • What is the lived experience of Tuvaluan hope seekers and their families in Aotearoa New Zealand? • What are the effects of not having a visa on their well-being and that of their families? • What ... -
Toulanganga : a Tongan model for community engagement and social enterprise
(2014)This thesis, Toulanganga: A Tongan model for community engagement and social enterprise, investigates a Tongan model of tapa-making and a process of Toulanganga which it is argued, could be viewed as a metaphor for the ... -
“Write the world” and tell the stories of your ancestors
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021-07-27)William Cuthers is of Cook Islands Māori and New Zealand Māori descent. He was raised in South Auckland in the 1980s by his mother (Cuthers, 2020). William’s connections to the Cook Islands and his ancestors' involvement ...