{"id":19420,"date":"2023-08-28T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.educationperfect.com\/?post_type=article&p=19420"},"modified":"2024-09-20T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:04:11","slug":"teach-me-about-me","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.educationperfect.com\/article\/teach-me-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Culture in a Classroom of Pasifika Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigating the topic of cultural inclusiveness brings about some challenges and some controversial ideas. However, it is a subject that speaks volumes about how we can support, encourage and learn from cultural knowledge and apply this to support our Pasifika learners.<\/p>\n

I think about the schooling system in early New Zealand history, and how our M\u0101ori children were not permitted to utter a word of Te Reo in school, fast forward to now, a language and culture that many of our schools are challenging our white systems to allow better opportunities for our Maori whanau to thrive.<\/p>\n

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I also, think about the schooling system in Samoa in the \u201960s and \u201870s, how many expatriates taught in schools in Samoa, providing students with an opportunity to learn English and be taught the \u201cpalagi\u201d way but diminishing the culture and language, where many of our parents were made to believe that the \u201cpalagi\u201d way is the way to success and to leave our cultural identity at home or acknowledge it as little as possible.<\/p>\n