{"id":930,"date":"2019-05-17T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=930"},"modified":"2019-05-17T12:55:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T00:55:02","slug":"more-graduation-success-for-te-tumu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/more-graduation-success-for-te-tumu\/","title":{"rendered":"More graduation success for Te Tumu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being able to highlight student success always brings great pleasure to Te Tumu.\u00a0<\/em> This May we have ten students completing their degrees in May.\u00a0 Thomas Aerepo-Morgan<\/strong><\/span> (Ng\u0101i Tahu, Waikato, Ng\u0101ti Whakaue, Kuki Airani), Maramena Tuna<\/strong><\/span> (T\u016bhoe) and Kaahu White<\/span><\/strong> (Ng\u0101i Tahu, Te Rarawa) graduate with a BA in M\u0101ori Studies.\u00a0 Thomas is currently pursuing a Master of Indigenous Studies degree, and Maramena is teaching our MAOR108 (Waiata) paper.\u00a0 Liam Gillan-Taylor<\/strong><\/span> (P\u0101keh\u0101), Brogan Handcock<\/span><\/strong> (Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa, Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, P\u0101keh\u0101),\u00a0 Jade McCaughan<\/strong><\/span> (P\u0101keh\u0101), Tiana Matthews<\/span><\/strong> (Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa, Ng\u0101ti Porou, P\u0101keh\u0101) and Isabel Moore<\/span><\/strong> (Ng\u0101ti Porou, P\u0101keh\u0101) all graduate with a BA in Indigneous Development\/He Kura Matanui.\u00a0 Two students (below) are graduating with PhDs.\u00a0 We wish all our graduates future success wherever their skills and knowledge take them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Emma Dunlop-Bennett<\/span> <\/strong>(Ng\u0101ti Maniapoto, Samoan, P\u0101keh\u0101) undertook her doctorate, “Through their eyes: a Samoan perspective on child wellbeing”,<\/span> while based principally in Wellington.\u00a0 Emma’s supervisors have included Assoc Professor Jenny Bryant-Tokalau, Dr Michelle Schaaf, Assoc Professor Bev Lawton and Professor Tony Dowell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her abstract reads: Child wellbeing is the subject of a considerable body of research and policy making globally, and in New Zealand today. Despite its extensive use, the concept of child wellbeing is used differently across disciplines and across diverse social and cultural contexts. Little of the extant literature recognises the influence of \u2018other\u2019 worldviews, cultural beliefs, values, and ways of knowing. Further, the voices of children are largely missing in the child wellbeing debates, despite the fact that children are able to offer authoritative knowledge of their world and of their experiences. A review of the literature on Pasifika, children and childhoods, and wellbeing, highlights that there is currently no literature in New Zealand that connects these three areas together. This is the gap where this research contributes new knowledge to understanding – from the standpoint of Samoan children and their parents living in Wellington – how they conceptualise child wellbeing. The Samoan diaspora is the focus of this research given the diversity that exists within Pasifika.<\/p>\n

Guided by the Talanoa ile i\u2019a (Faleolo, 2009), this exploratory research positions children as \u2018experts\u2019 on their wellbeing and creates the space for them to share their knowledge. The Samoan children do so through combining Samoan (talanoaga) and Western (photovoice) research methods. The Samoan children took 10 photos of what made them feel \u2018happy, safe, and loved\u2019, which they used to guide their talanoa. The views of their parents were elicited through talanoaga.<\/p>\n

From the talanoaga, the Samoan children defined their wellbeing as \u201ca bunch of stuff that has good bits and bad bits\u201d. This definition picks up the relational aspect of wellbeing as well as resilience. Four factors are important to their wellbeing, which are: social connections, not having to worry, feeling valued and included, and being a good person. Connecting with people, particularly their family, stands out as being of overwhelming importance to their wellbeing. The Samoan children bring these ideas together conceptually as a seesaw in a playground. Parents conceptualise the wellbeing of their children as ola manaia or the beautiful life. They see their main role as laying the foundations on which their children could have a beautiful life. For many parents, they are drawing on the fa\u2019asamoa and the way in which they have been raised, but \u2018tweaking\u2019 this to account for shifts in the broader context. Of note, parents view wellbeing in terms of their children being happy and emotionally stable, being good people, having values, and that they do something meaningful with their lives that they were passionate about. The talanoa from the parents are woven together as the Ola Manaia model that captures the importance of resilience and the relational aspect of wellbeing.<\/p>\n

This research has significance in terms of adding to the community, national and global body of knowledge on child wellbeing. This is the first New Zealand study of the wellbeing of Samoan children that gives priority to the voices of children. In doing so, it adds the child\u2019s voice as well as the \u2018other\u2019 to the child wellbeing literature, and does this in a holistic way that takes account of the multi-dimensional aspect of child wellbeing. Further, this research reinforces that, when given the opportunity, children are able to make an incredible contribution to issues that affect them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Paratene (Hirini) Tane<\/span><\/strong>‘s thesis topic discusses “Whakapapakainga: a template for the cross-generational development of marae-communities.”<\/span> Hirini’s supervisors include Professors Paul Tapsell, Merata Kawharu and Poia Rewi.<\/span><\/p>\n

His abstract explains: Through case study research located in Northland, New Zealand, this thesis investigates the future of papak\u0101inga (kin-community settlements) and their marae (ancestral centres of tribal identity). M\u0101ori kin-communities have transformed in response to crisis and opportunity over generations. Due to historical impacts of M\u0101ori land alienation, individualisation, and M\u0101ori urbanisation, the binding fabric of papak\u0101inga \u2013 kinship and economy \u2013 has weakened.<\/p>\n

\u2018Whakapapak\u0101inga: a template for the cross-generational development of marae-communities\u2019 investigates the concerns and hopes of the descendants of Oromahoe regarding the future of their papak\u0101inga. It uses interviews with elders, a M\u0101ori land trust; a questionnaire with community descendants (local and non-local), archival research, and reflexive ethnography. The key finding of this research investigation is that papak\u0101inga development should innovate within central needs \u2013 energy, housing and food \u2013 that restore economy around papak\u0101inga and reactivate functional kinship links between community members.<\/p>\n

This thesis is a study in the field of the target audience. The findings are to assist the Oromahoe Trust, the Oromahoe marae and its descendants (local and non-local) in shaping a strategic direction for their ancestral settlement, their papak\u0101inga. The findings also provide an kin-insider approach to papak\u0101inga development for housing development agencies, district and regional councils, funding agencies, banks, architecture firms, solar technology suppliers and M\u0101ori and non-M\u0101ori agricultural and horticultural enterprises that neighbour papak\u0101inga. It is important not only to New Zealand\u2019s 778 papak\u0101inga, but also small indigenous communities elsewhere in the world facing similar crises of relevance to descendant diasporas, identity and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being able to highlight student success always brings great pleasure to Te Tumu.\u00a0 This May we have ten students completing their degrees in May.\u00a0 Thomas Aerepo-Morgan (Ng\u0101i Tahu, Waikato, Ng\u0101ti Whakaue, Kuki Airani), Maramena Tuna (T\u016bhoe) and Kaahu White (Ng\u0101i […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35260,8759,35262,354,17855],"tags":[67405,35288,67406,40924],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-development","category-maori-studies","category-pacific-islands-studies","category-postgraduate","category-student-success","tag-child-wellbeing","tag-marae","tag-papakainga","tag-samoa"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}