Doorways to other worlds : towards successful Pacific s/p/aces in education : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Education at Massey University

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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Talei
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-03T00:22:44Z
dc.date.available2011-10-03T00:22:44Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an autoethnographic exploration of the processes by which my hybrid cultural identity has been constituted. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to understandings of how better to facilitate the educational success of Pacific learners in a New Zealand context. Within the methodology of autoethnography, I follow the idea of the role of the researcher as a bricoleur to guide my explorations of the processes of my hybrid cultural identity construction. I use a combination of influences including Kerouac’s verse form of American Haiku as well as written and photographic mindmaps, to reflect on my embodied experiences. I have represented, through vignettes and poetry, the ways in which sensuous perspectives of scent, touch, hair, music and dance have created hybrid cultural understandings of place and space in my life. The discussions of my sensuous experiences are then explored through Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural capital and habitus. These concepts form the broad theoretical framework through which the educational implications of my hybrid cultural experiences are drawn out, in reference to an overriding ethic of empathy and care.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/2750
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectPacific Islandersen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectEthnic identityen_US
dc.subjectSocial life and customsen_US
dc.subjectAutoethnographyen_US
dc.subjectMindmapsen_US
dc.subjectHybrid cultural experiencesen_US
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_US
dc.titleDoorways to other worlds : towards successful Pacific s/p/aces in education : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Education at Massey Universityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorSmith, Talei
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorMassey University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Education (M.Ed.)
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