The Manulua Framework: how combining multiple research methodologies and theoretical or conceptual frameworks strengthens research with Tongan participants

Fonua, Sonia

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“…The Manulua framework (Fonua, 2021) collects multiple theoretical frameworks together to recognise and allow for different ways of examining ontology, ways of being, epistemology, ways of knowing, and axiology, ways of valuing. It consists of four different theoretical-conceptual perspectives woven into a cohesive framework informed by Epeli Hau'ofa's seminal 1993 essay "Our Sea of Islands", and the articles of support and critique found in A New Oceania (Waddell et al, 1993) to locate Oceania as the context, connector and source.…”

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Fata ho poto: Tongan science learners and engagement, enjoyment and success in secondary school and university settings

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Engagement and success are prominent in education discussions, research and policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and globally. Yet, little is known about how successful Tongan science learners define engagement, enjoyment or success, and which teaching and learning experiences have enhanced or detracted from their engagement, enjoyment and success during their studies. This article shares the stories of 26 successful Tongan science learners who participated in talanoa (open discussion without an agenda) about their engagement, enjoyment and success in secondary and university science education in Aotearoa, and, for some, their schooling in Tonga. The Manulua framework (Fonua, 2021) informed how their stories were gathered, analysed and woven together. The article presents the Fata ho poto model to demonstrate how engagement, enjoyment and success are considered by successful Tongan science learners. This model is useful for those increasing Tongan and Moana/Pacific learning achievement. It offers important insights related to the role of education policy and practice in shaping notions of engagement, enjoyment and success among Tongan and Moana/Pacific learners.

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Fata ho poto: Tongan science learners and engagement, enjoyment and success in secondary school and university settings

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“…Pacific research methodologies are in acknowledgment to Pacific values, protocols, knowledge and beliefs (Fonua, 2021). The motivation of applying these relevant Pacific methodologies is to "build on the familiar in order to unlock and unpack the unfamiliar" that can only be understood from a Pacific viewpoint (Amituanai-Toloa, 2009, p. 51).…”

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“…This aspect of teu le va is crucial in understanding Pacific peoples' epistemologies. Relational ethics, applied by Pacific scholars Garner and Pouono (2021), Anae et al (2010) and Fonua (2021), highlight the efficacy of nurturing the relational space or the v a within relationships rather than focusing on the participant as an individual (Fonua, 2021). Applying teu le v a to critical disaster studies, together with Talanoa, transforms collaborative relationships through facilitating personal and collective relationships to achieve appropriate outcomes.…”

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Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies

Sang Yum,

Baars

2023

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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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“…This thesis begins with the pivotal first day of official fieldwork in Palauli, taking its cue from āganu'u Sāmoa itself, where any malaga (journey or visiting party) starts: For many Pacific nations, that has meant calling western scholars to task for continuing to practice and perpetuate archaic colonial attitudes (Trask 1991;Hau'ofa 1994b;Smith 1999), a greater push for the repatriation of cultural treasures held in western museums and archives (Greer 2012;Aranui 2018;Puertollano 2021), or replacing western epistemologies with more culturally relevant Indigenous frameworks (Gegeo 1994;Thaman 1992;Smith 1992;Tamasese, Peteru and Waldegrave 1997;Nabobo-Baba 2006;Pulotu-Endemann 2009;Sauni 2011;Naepi 2019;Ka'ili, Mahina and Addo 2017;Futter-Puati and Maua-Hodges 2019;Fonua 2021). Sāmoa is not immune to these conditions, and this chapter explores how archaeology has existed in these islands, but, more significantly, how it has been purposefully adapted to the local culture of Independent Sāmoa and the broader demands of āganu'u Sāmoa.…”

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Archaeology in Independent Samoa: Negotiating the Cultural Politics of Aganu'u in Palauli, Savai'i.

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This thesis examines how archaeology is employed in the Independent State of Sāmoa (Independent Sāmoa or Sāmoa) as a useful tool for the advancement of contemporary knowledge on Sāmoan prehistory. Archaeology was first introduced to Sāmoa almost a century ago and, for the first eighty years, it existed in an academic vacuum of its own creation. The past two decades, however, have seen archaeology evolve and adapt to the insular culture and society of modern-day Independent Sāmoa, and the discipline is now being engineered to suit the demands, and remain relevant of, Sāmoans.In 2017, a research team from the National University of Sāmoa’s (NUS) Centre for Sāmoan Studies (CSS) re-discovered hundreds of archaeological structures in the inland plantations of the three villages of Palauli district: Vailoa, Vaito’omuli and Fa’aala. CSS then embarked on a project to help the villages preserve the remains through a collaborative tourism venture. These efforts stretched out over several years, in a complicated series of consultations and negotiations that eventually resulted in the successful opening of the Palauli Heritage Trails, as well as serving as the impetus for this doctoral research project. In this thesis, archaeology served as the lens for an examination of how āganu’u Sāmoa (Sāmoan culture practiced collectively by all Sāmoans) is practically applied in the management of Sāmoan cultural heritage. The case studies illustrate that archaeology is subjected to the cultural politics of āganu’u Sāmoa, rigorously weighed, deliberated and negotiated through popular vernacular, language, oral histories, proverbial expressions, historiography, genealogical knowledge and land stewardship, For Sāmoans, the past is constantly revisited, and revised, in the present, and this thesis posits that Sāmoan responses to archaeological heritage management are manifested through the practical applications of āganu’u in the interest of upholding and maintaining cultural sovereignty. Local archaeological negotiation and practice are, from the outset, ‘Sāmoanized’ through āganu’u, connoting the ability, and penchant, of Sāmoans to transform foreign concepts and ideas into viable local versions that can only be practiced and sustained at the behest of, and through consistent collaborations, with Sāmoans. Archaeology in Sāmoa, necessarily, has evolved into a form unlike anywhere else. It is only through this process that archaeology can hope to be of use to Sāmoans as it seeks to help tell the story of Sāmoa’s past in the highly political present, and for the ultimate benefit of Sāmoans in the foreseeable future.

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The Manulua Framework: how combining multiple research methodologies and theoretical or conceptual frameworks strengthens research with Tongan participants

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Fata ho poto: Tongan science learners and engagement, enjoyment and success in secondary school and university settings

Fata ho poto: Tongan science learners and engagement, enjoyment and success in secondary school and university settings

Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies

Archaeology in Independent Samoa: Negotiating the Cultural Politics of Aganu'u in Palauli, Savai'i.

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