 Pasifika Caucus
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LUNCHTIME SEMINAR
LEADERSHIP PACIFIC AUCKLAND CLUSTER PROUDLY INVITES YOU TO LUNCHTIME SEMINAR
FRIDAY 28 JANUARY, 12-1.30PM, MIT
Speaker: Professor Keith Walker (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Seminar Title: "Ethics in blue jeans and bumper sticker morality"
Ethics is easier said than done. How do we ( as leaders) make tough personal and professional decisions that will stand the scrutiny of conscience, good consequences and the sustained trust of people who matter to us? This seminar will come alongside attendees to offer some "undressed up" ways and means to make wise and ethical decisions.
Date/ Time: Friday 28 January, 2011
Venue: Manukau Institute of Technology, Room NR106, NR Block, North Campus (please refer to campus map)
Light refreshments provided.
For any further information, please feel free to contact, Sione Vaka, sione.vaka@gmail.com or 021 130 8283, Sina M sina.moore@gmail.com or 021 666 595, Niko, Sina A or Julie.
For catering purposes, please RSVP your attendance to Julie on lpac@manukau.ac.nz, ph: 968 8641 by Wednesday 26 January.
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new zealand conferences & HUI
3rd Critiquing Pasifika Education
Biennial Conference 3 – 5 July 2011, Te Kura Mātauranga School of Education
Auckland University of Technology, Manukau Campus, 640 Great South Road, Manukau City
» Download Third Conference Announcement (PDF, 180KB)
» Download Call for Abstracts (PDF, 102KB)
» Flyer: Invitation to Launch of Pasifika Special Edition of ALTERNATIVE (PDF, 127KB)
» AUT Notice of event
» Conference Registration and Keynote Speakers 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Coxon, E.. & Samu, T.W. (2010) Pacific research in education: New directions. MAI Revi Retrieved February 7, 2011: http://www.review.mai.ac.nz/index.php/MR/issue/view/15 This issue of MAI Review focuses on education policy and practice for Pasifika communities in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 21st century. It includes 11 papers which provide critically informed, evidence-grounded insights into Pacific Education; and many of the writers are optimistic in offering potential solutions to long-identified issues. The authors in this collection include a number of educators who are well-established as critical researchers and practitioners in the area of Pacific Education. It also includes papers from emerging researchers, who are characterised by an original and rigorous research approach and a topic of interest and importance.
LATEST BOOK in the ‘Rethinking Pacific Education Initiative’ Series:
Sanga, K. & Thaman, K.H. (2009) Re-thinking Education Curricula in the Pacific: Challenges and Prospects. Victoria University of Wellington: Wellington. ISBN 978-0-475-12342-8.
In this book, 14 Pacific scholars begin the task of ‘re-thinking’ curriculum in Pacific contexts. The authors critique curriculum for Pacific peoples by questioning underlying assumptions, assessing curriculum reforms, and interrogating policies, processes and practices for inclusivity, contextual embeddedness of values and more. But the book goes further. It offers hopeful prospects. As educators, the authors propose ideas, practices and tested examples of dealing with the challenges of curricula in Pacific contexts. They discuss contextual values, indigenous processes and frameworks, and ways of embedding these within the curriculum. They offer insights on learning, on culturally rooted pedagogies and on research.
This book by Pacific educational leaders is written to educate Pacific curricula specialists, teachers, teacher educators, education policy makers, students and researchers are likely to find gems of insight within its covers.
» Download book flyer (PDF, 208 KB)
Past events and information
» Pasifika Caucus Archive 2008 | 2009 | 2010
Contacts
Through Pasifika caucus you can make contact with other caucus members. Your Pasifika
caucus representative on the NZARE council is Tanya Wendt Samu, University of Auckland.
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