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Browsing by Subject "Culture"

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  • Distance education the Pacific way 
    Marsh, Connie (Common Ground Publishing, 2005)
    This article explores some of the challenges and solutions of distance education among South Pacific Islands, as well as the cultural appropriateness of different distance-learning approaches for South Pacific learners. ...
  • Exploring Conceptualisations of Disability: a Talanoa approach to understanding cultural frameworks of disability in Samoa 
    Picton, Catherine; Horsley, Mike; Knight, Bruce Allen (2016)
    The concepts of disability were explored from a Samoan cultural frame. The impact of disability conceptualisations on identity development and cultural inclusion were assessed through the Samoan language. The study also ...
  • Ietoga: Samoan educators educational journeys 
    O'Regan, Bridget (University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2006)
    Senior educators in Samoa who are currently studying towards a Master of Teaching and Learning degree through the Christchurch College of Education face the usual range of challenges encountered by students studying from ...
  • Re-positioning the experiences and situation of single mothers: Accounts from Samoa 
    Stewart-Withers, Rochelle (Women Studies Association of New Zealand, 2011-09)
    Cultural values and societal norms can place a considerable burden on young women to be sexually non-active outside of a marriage, with the understanding that motherhood must occur within marriage. For those who deviate ...
  • Sun, sand, and beach fale: benefiting from backpackers - the Samoan way 
    Scheyvens, Regina (2006)
    In Samoa, the development of large hotels and resorts has often been thwarted by landowners who refuse to let control of their communally-held resources slip out of their hands. As an alternative livelihood strategy local ...
  • The role of religion in local perceptions of disasters 
    Holmgaard, Sanne Bech (Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-11-15)
    This paper explores religious perceptions of disasters and their implications for post-disaster processes of religious and cultural change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in post-tsunami Samoa, this study investigates how ...

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