"Intercultural" Perceptions, Academic Achievement, and the Identifying Process of Pacific Islands Students in New Zealand Schools

Nakhid, Camille

doi:10.2307/3211249

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“…This analysis, however, does not extend to predicting children's receptive vocabulary in their Pacific languages. Where the main language of instruction is English, as is the case in most NZ schools, this could explain some of the disparities in language and academic outcomes between Pacific and European children at 6 years of age …”

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Integrating health, education and culture in predicting Pacific children's English receptive vocabulary at 6 years: A classification tree approach

Kim

Schluter

McNeill

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J Paediatrics Child Health

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Aim: Pacific children fare poorly on health and educational outcomes, including literacy. Early interventions are considered critical in reducing educational disparities. A prediction model was constructed to analyse the factors associated with Pacific children's English receptive vocabulary, an important component of English language development. Methods: A birth cohort study of Pacific children was used to construct a classification tree model and predict the proportions of Pacific children who performed strongly in a standardised test of English receptive vocabulary at 6 years of age (n = 1019). Classification trees were constructed using 10-fold cross-validation (CV) and pruned using the one-standard-error rule. Prediction errors were directly estimated using leaveone-out CV. Results: Analyses of misclassification errors from the pruned model gave false negative and positive rates of 19 and 19% from re-substitution and 54 and 21% from leave-one-out CV estimation, respectively. Of the predictors, maternal acculturation, small birthweight and performance in early developmental screening test at 4 years of age were found to have the highest goodness of split. Conclusions: The cultural environment to which Pacific children were exposed in early childhood, indicated by the maternal acculturation, was more crucial in distinguishing children with strong English-receptive vocabulary skills than socio-economic or prenatal conditions. This highlights the importance of integrating the cultural environment into designing measures for facilitating Pacific children's language development.What is already known on this topic 1 Educational and health outcomes are bi-directional and positively associated. 2 There are persistent disparities in children's educational and health outcomes in most developed countries, and Pacific children are among those worst affected in New Zealand. 3 Pacific children's early language and literacy skills, assessed using conventional literacy school measures, were found to be lower on average than the overall student population, highlighting the need for early interventions. What this paper adds1 Cultural environment was incorporated into a prediction model for Pacific children's English-receptive vocabulary at 6 years of age, and the results emphasise the importance of maternal cultural orientation in distinguishing children with strong Englishreceptive vocabulary skills from those who scored below the age-appropriate range. 2 This suggests the need for cultural considerations when attempting to study Pacific children's language outcomes and when designing and implementing strategies for reducing disparities. 3 Classification trees were constructed, and their performances were analysed, indicating their potential utility and limitations in predicting educational outcomes.Educational and health outcomes are considered inextricably linked and bi-directional. 1 In fact, enhancing equity in educational attainment is seen as one of the most important ways to tackle disparities in health outcomes. 2 Mo...

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Integrating health, education and culture in predicting Pacific children's English receptive vocabulary at 6 years: A classification tree approach

Kim

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McNeill

et al. 2019

J Paediatrics Child Health

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“…This highlights the issue of representation, both of Pasifika cultures within school environments generally, and in teaching specifically, and in terms of people: the importance of Pacific peoples being located in education faculties (see also ). Nakhid also points towards perceptions of Pasifika students held by teachers, concluding that these perceptions, as well as a failure to recognise identifying processes, influence their responses to Pasifika students in ways that adversely affect educational outcomes (Nakhid 2003). This highlights the importance of teacher-student relationships.…”

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Malaga—The Journey: The Performing Arts as Motivational Tool for Pasifika Students in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mackley-Crump¹

2011

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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In 2009, the musical work Malaga: The Journey, based on the journeys of Pacific peoples to Aotearoa New Zealand, was staged in the city of Porirua. Involving a large group of predominantly Pasifika students from three local secondary schools, the aim of the project was to encourage and motivate students to achieve better educational outcomes, and affirm positive notions of Pacific identities. Using these objectives as a starting point, this article presents a personal observational ethnography of the two weeks leading up to the shows, highlighting how these themes were incorporated into the rehearsal space and reflected in the work itself. Ending with anecdotes from those most closely involved in bringing Malaga to the stage, it suggests not only that the show was successful but also adds to discourses around the value of performing arts and culture in wider educational contexts.

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“…Many of these will operate in versions of two main cultural logics, one of Pacific origin and one derived from Europe. This duality places value on students being able to negotiate fluently between various va through forms of edge-walking (Tupuola, 2004), or the exercise of polycultural capital (Mila-Schaaf, 2011;Mila-Schaaf & Robinson, 2010). Pasifika students contributing to this study have elected to be a minority in a 'white school' for a variety of strategic reasons.…”

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Caring for classroom relationality in Pasifika education: A space-based understanding

Reynolds

2018

Waikato Journal of Education

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To cite this article: Reynolds, M. (2018). Caring for classroom relationality in Pasifika education: A space-based understanding. Waikato Journal of Education, 23(1), 71-84. doi: 10.15663/wje.v23i1.575 To link to this article: doi: 10.15663/wje.v23i1.575To link to this volume: doi: 10.15663/wje.v23i1 Copyright of articlesCreative commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Authors retain copyright of their publications.Author and users are free to:• Share-copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format• Adapt-remix, transform, and build upon the material The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.• Attribution-You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use• NonCommercial-You may not use the material for commercial purposes.• ShareAlike-If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. Terms and conditions of useFor full terms and conditions of use: http://wje.org.nz/index.php/WJE/about/editorialPolicies#openAccessPolicy and users are free to• Share-copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format• Adapt-remix, transform, and build upon the materialThe licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Waikato Journal of Education

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"Intercultural" Perceptions, Academic Achievement, and the Identifying Process of Pacific Islands Students in New Zealand Schools

Cited by 47 publications

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Integrating health, education and culture in predicting Pacific children's English receptive vocabulary at 6 years: A classification tree approach

Integrating health, education and culture in predicting Pacific children's English receptive vocabulary at 6 years: A classification tree approach

Malaga—The Journey: The Performing Arts as Motivational Tool for Pasifika Students in Aotearoa New Zealand

Caring for classroom relationality in Pasifika education: A space-based understanding

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