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Salesa, Damon

doi:10.7810/9781988533537

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“…To achieve this online, it required leaning into the principles and values that guide Pacific pedagogies. There was also a sense that nurturing the vā/wā online is not something unfamiliar to Pacific communities, as there have been prior examples of online relational space building between Pacific peoples taking place across borders on the Internet (Lopesi, 2018;Salesa, 2017). This makes intuitive sense, as Pacific/Moana/Oceanic peoples are distributed inside and all around the edges of our great ocean.…”

Section: Opportunities and Challenges In Nurturing The Vā/wā In Lockdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practising Pacific pedagogies during New Zealand's level four lockdown: Pacific early career academics and COVID-19

Thomsen

Tuiburelevu

Keil

et al. 2021

WJE

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During New Zealand’s unprecedented level-four lockdown, opportunities to practise Pacific pedagogies in New Zealand universities required creative and innovative solutions from Pacific academics. This paper brings together the experiences of teaching during this lockdown from a cross-section of Pacific Early Career Academics (PECA) across a wide range of disciplines and schools at New Zealand’s largest university. This paper argues that despite the challenges, PECA found ways to adapt Pacific pedagogical concepts through online delivery methods; however, their ability to effectively do this was severely influenced by existing socio-economic inequities that disproportionately impacted Pacific students. PECA continued to nurture the vā/wā with students in innovative ways, but they still encountered major challenges that will require more careful consideration of equity issues by New Zealand universities moving forward.

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Section: Opportunities and Challenges In Nurturing The Vā/wā In Lockdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practising Pacific pedagogies during New Zealand's level four lockdown: Pacific early career academics and COVID-19

Thomsen

Tuiburelevu

Keil

et al. 2021

WJE

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“…These are steps that hold promise if they mean inclusion of Indigenous-centred narratives, but this requires real prioritisation of Indigenous voices, Māori first but also for the increasing population of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa. 76 Pacific voices driving the narratives in Pacific history is important for empowering our communities. Greg Dening, as a historian of the Pacific, recognised the liberating power of history, but as Linda Tuhiwai-Smith has demonstrated, for Indigenous peoples, reclaiming history is more than that.…”

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“Guardians” of Signatures? Future Directions in Pacific History from a Pacific Early Career Academic in Aotearoa

Leenen-Young¹

2021

JNZS

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As a Pacific early career academic sitting between history and Pacific studies, I see unresolved tension concerning the lack of prioritisation of Pacific voices in Pacific history. In this article I explore how Pacific voices are included in the writing and teaching of Pacific history to establish that this is a continuing and unresolved issue. To do this, I survey articles in the Journal of Pacific History between 2015 and 2020 to trace the inclusion and prevalence of Pacific voices through authorship and prioritisation of historical evidence, alongside analysis of the teaching of Pacific history in universities in Aotearoa.

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“…8 Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa acknowledged the internet as obliterating distance and enabling key familial relationships to be newly empowered. 9 This emphasis on both distance and connectivity is pertinent for a global population spread wide. Social media can offer a cheap and fast way to reinvigorate kinship relationships that may not be otherwise possible.…”

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Negotiating the Digital Vā: Emerging Pacific Scholars and Community Building on Twitter

Thomsen¹,

Lopesi²,

Gushiken³

et al. 2021

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Although the power of social media to bring people together across borders is acknowledged, very little has been written about the potential of social media sites for emerging Pacific scholars living transnationally across our region and beyond. We deploy thematic talanoa to demonstrate how emerging Pacific scholars engage Twitter as a platform where routes and relationships are established and teu/tauhi in the digital vā. Furthermore, we argue that emerging scholars of Pacific heritage are building an augmented reality founded on Pacific-specific ways of relationship building, forming external to, and in response to, marginalising dominant narratives inside and outside Pacific worlds.

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Practising Pacific pedagogies during New Zealand's level four lockdown: Pacific early career academics and COVID-19

Practising Pacific pedagogies during New Zealand's level four lockdown: Pacific early career academics and COVID-19

“Guardians” of Signatures? Future Directions in Pacific History from a Pacific Early Career Academic in Aotearoa

Negotiating the Digital Vā: Emerging Pacific Scholars and Community Building on Twitter

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