What it means to be Pasifika?

What it means to be Pasifika?

Pasifika (sometimes spelt Pasefika) is used to refer to the people, cultures, and language of Pacific groups including: Sāmoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and other smaller Pacific nations – who are now living in New Zealand. Previously, New Zealand governed most of these Pacific nations.

Is Pasifika the same as Maori?

Local usage in New Zealand uses Pacific islander (formerly Pacific Polynesians, or Pasifika) to distinguish those who have emigrated from one of these areas in modern times from the New Zealand Māori, who are also Polynesian but are indigenous to New Zealand.

What is the Pasifika success compass?

The Pasifika Success Compass captures the essence of the PEP – it places Pacific learners, parents, families, and communities at the centre of the compass. The points of the compass are nine values that are key to Pacific peoples’ ways of knowing, being, and doing – the values that underpin Pacific world views.

What is the name of the cultural competencies framework for teachers of Pasifika learners?

Tapasā
Tapasā is a framework and tool designed to build the cultural competencies of teachers and leaders, helping them engage with Pacific learners and their parents, families, and communities to make the biggest difference in a child’s educational success.

Where does Pasifika come from?

Pasifika peoples call Aotearoa home, but continue to have family and cultural connections to Pacific Island nations – the islands and cultures of Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Tokelau, Tuvalu and other Pasifika heritages.

What is unique about being Pasifika?

Pasifika peoples like to work in groups to collaborate better with one another, which is traditionally part of their village life before migrating to Aotearoa. Pasifika learners dislike being singled out as this shatters their confidence and potentially harms their self-esteem.

How do Pasifika students learn?

Instead, get to know your students as individuals through conversation and classroom activities which enable students share their cultures and perspectives. Pasifika students want teachers who know their culture and know about them as people. They want to read, learn, and write about their own culture.

Is Pasifika a language?

After 60 years of migration, Pasifika languages are going strong in Pasifika communities. New migrants and families who have been here for generations speak the familiar parent language.

How many Pasifika students are there in NZ?

Some key facts. 13,010 Pasifika students (9% of domestic students): 8,665 females (67%) and 4,330 males (33%). This is an increase of 33% from 2010.

Why is Tapasa important?

Tapasā is also an important resource in other areas. It can be used as a foundation document to develop further resources to support governance, strategic and programme planning; developing local curriculum; induction, mentoring and appraisals; and professional learning and development.

What is the Pasifika education Plan?

The Pasifika Education Plan 2006-2010 (the Plan) provides the Ministry of Education with strategic direction for improving education outcomes for Pasifika peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Plan was released in June 2006 and this is its first monitoring report.

How do Pasifika people see family?

Family was identified as a central organising principle for Pasifika peoples, and New Zealand’s youth development policy acknowledges the family as an important arena in youth socialisation.

How do you respect Pasifika?

It includes respect of self, others, space and environment. Respect occurs when other concepts such as va and reciprocity are present. Respect ensures that every Pacific person, irrespective of age, gender, sexuality, spiritual beliefs or cultural status, feels safe and protected.

How do you engage with Pasifika?

Consider and involve the wider community

  1. Think “family” rather than “parent” when planning activities.
  2. Engage the support of local churches and leaders in the Pacific community.
  3. Provide career education to promote higher aspirations among families.
  4. Collaborate with other schools where appropriate and practical to do so.

What are the Pasifika values?

Pacific values

  • Reciprocity. Reciprocity is about mutual dependency, mutual benefit, and agreement.
  • Relationships. Relationships are of the utmost importance to Pacific learners.
  • Collectivism. Pacific peoples operate in a communal setting.
  • Service.
  • Respect.
  • Spirituality.
  • Leadership.
  • Family.

What do Pacific islanders speak?

Melanesian Pidgin, Hawaiian, Polynesian languages, Tahitian, Maori, are all languages spoken throughout island nations in the South Pacific Ocean.

What percent of NZ is Pasifika?

7.4 percent
The 2013 Census recorded 295,941 individual Pacific people, comprising 7.4 percent of the total New Zealand population. The number of people identifying with the Pacific peoples ethnic group was up 11.3 percent from the 2006 Census population of 265,974.

Why was Tapasa created?

Tapasā is a teaching resource for early learning and school teachers that was developed by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with a Pacific Experts Panel. It aims to better support Pacific learners and enable teachers to have a better understanding of their world.