Grounding our collective Talanoa: Enabling open conversations

Fa’avae, David Taufui Mikato; Hemi, Keaka Varner; Aporosa, S.

doi:10.15663/wje.v26i1.849

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“…Disaster studies should actively support relevant and culturally sensitive methodologies that are context specific, culturally appropriate and suitable for pursing Pacific research. Disaster studies embracing Indigenous Pacific concepts and knowledge through active engagement with Indigenous Pacific approaches to research can contribute to diversity in the discipline as well as highlighting the specificities of Pacific ways of being-knowing-seeing-doing (Fa’avae et al. , 2021b).…”

Section: Toward a New Paradigmmentioning

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Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies

Sang Yum,

Baars

2023

DPM

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PurposeResearch in critical disaster studies stresses the urgency to explore alternative ontological framings (Gaillard and Raju, 2022) that encourages researchers and practitioners, especially Indigenous communities, to nurture spaces where Indigenous voices are well represented. It is imperative that research in the Pacific should be guided by Pacific research methodologies to maximize positive outcomes (Ponton, 2018) and break free from limited Eurocentric ideologies that are often ill-suited in Pacific contexts. Hazards in the South Pacific region have become more frequent and volatile. This has created a growing interest in the study of disasters in the region. However, current disaster studies in the Pacific are often problematic as they often fail to challenge the implicit coloniality of the discipline.Design/methodology/approachThis paper will expand on these arguments, suggesting ways to overcome the limits of common Eurocentric research frameworks in disaster studies and to illustrate the significance and relevance of Pacific methodologies.FindingsIt is pertinent that critical disaster studies encapsulate Pacific worldviews and knowledge as valued and valid to reconstruct Pacific research. Decolonizing disaster research will ultimately liberate the discipline from limitations of its colonial past and allow for truly engaging and critical research practices.Originality/valueThis paper will illustrate and articulate how Talanoa, a pan-Pacific concept, could offer a more culturally appropriate research methodology to disasters, seen through a Samoan lens. Talanoa is an informal conversation that is widely shared among Pacific communities based on pure, authentic and real conversations which are crucial elements in building relationships with Pacific communities (Vaioleti, 2006).

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Section: Toward a New Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies

Sang Yum,

Baars

2023

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Faifai mālie – Balancing ourselves in our journey with Pasifika communities in person-centered and experiential psychotherapy and counselling

Ioane

2022

Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

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Language learning using Pacific picturebooks in an Aotearoa New Zealand kindergarten

Kelly-Ware,

Daly,

Teokotai

et al. 2024

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

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Māori and Pacific learners in Aotearoa New Zealand have been identified as ‘priority learners’ by the Ministry of Education. The ‘Pacific picturebook project’ is ongoing research focussed on picturebooks selected to support the languages, cultures, and identities of Pacific learners in keeping with our government, Teaching Council and Ministry of Education expectations. This phase of the research was located in a kindergarten where teachers and children identify as Māori, Pākehā and from several Pacific Island nations. Teachers shared a selection of Pacific picturebooks with the children and recorded their own and the children’s responses to them over a kindergarten term. Thematic analysis of data showed that Pacific picturebooks were significant pedagogical tools for language learning, to support identity, and to contribute to the kindergarten’s emergent and localised curriculum. These findings clearly illustrate what pedagogy looks like when it is entrenched in key documents relevant to early learning in this country.

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Grounding our collective Talanoa: Enabling open conversations

Cited by 3 publications

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Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies

Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies

Faifai mālie – Balancing ourselves in our journey with Pasifika communities in person-centered and experiential psychotherapy and counselling

Language learning using Pacific picturebooks in an Aotearoa New Zealand kindergarten

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