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Pacific education

NZCER regularly produces research focusing on Pacific education and related topics. Here you will find a selection of recent research and journal articles from our kaimahi.

NCEA me te Whānau and NCEA ma le Pasifika—Evaluation report

NCEA me te Whānau and NCEA ma le Pasifika—Evaluation report

Sorted Pacific Peoples Pathways to Home Ownership (PPPH)—Programme Evaluation Report 2024 cover in orange

Sorted Pacific Peoples Pathways to Home Ownership (PPPH)—Programme Evaluation Report 2024

COMPASS Whānau Pasifika navigating schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand [Full Report].png

COMPASS: Whānau Pasifika navigating schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand

Poipoia kia puāwai - How schools support ākonga Māori and Pacific students to attain University Entrance Cover.png

Poipoia kia puāwai: How schools support ākonga Māori and Pacific students to attain University Entrance

Teacher perspectives from NZCER’s 2023 national survey of area schools

Teacher perspectives from NZCER’s 2023 national survey of area schools

Supporting early career teachers and kaiako: Experiences of mentoring, induction, and PLD

Supporting early career teachers and kaiako: Experiences of mentoring, induction, and PLD

Sorted Pacific Peoples Pathways to Home Ownership (PPPH) programme 2022 Evaluation report

Evaluation of the Sorted Pacific Peoples Pathways to Home Ownership (PPPH) programme

Highest Needs Review: What matters to stakeholders

Highest Needs Review: What matters to stakeholders

Secondary teachers’ perspectives from NZCER’s 2021 National Survey of Secondary Schools

Secondary teachers’ perspectives from NZCER’s 2021 National Survey of Secondary Schools

Progress Towards Licensing and Chartering Pacific Islands Early Childhood Centres in New Zealand

Progress towards licensing and chartering Pacific Islands early childhood centres in New Zealand

Politics and Pedagogy—The final frontiers of Pasifika early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand.png

Final frontiers of Pasifika early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand

Early literacy: Quality teaching and learning in Pasifika early childhood education

Early literacy: Quality teaching and learning in Pasifika early childhood education

O le ulua 'i faitautusi ma le tusitusi: O a'oa'oga maoa'e ma lona a'oa'oina i a'oga amata a le Pasifika

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Pacific Islands school-parent-community liaison project: An independent evaluation report

Journal Articles

Title	Authors	Publication year
The role of the role model—Pacific students’ perspectives and school teachers’ learnings	Cherie Chu-Fuluifaga and Martyn Reynolds	2024
Science journeys of Pacific learners: Myths and realities	Martyn Reynolds and Pio Lupo	2024
Fa’a Pasifika: Moving beyond culturally sustaining education	Trevor Bills and Ala'imalo Falefatu Enari	2023
Learning from each other: A framework from the field	Cherie Chu-Fuluifaga and Martyn Reynolds	2023
Fijian Indian students' perceptions towards group work in New Zealand classrooms	Alvin Chand	2022
The realisation of Pasifika success when schools de-silo Pacific students’ lives: “Pasifika mo Pasifika”	Trevor Bills, Ala'imalo Falefatu Enari, Parehuia Enari, and Daniel Tupua-Siliva	2022
Supporting language, culture and identity using Pacific picturebooks	Cushla Foe, Janette Kelly-Ware, and Nicola Daly	2022
Service: A deeply meaningful value vital for Pacific learners	Faupepe Rimoni, Robin Averill, and Ali Glasgow	2021
Changing the conversation (Toe fetu’una’i manatunatuga): Exploring and utilising the attributes that are culturally embedded in Pacific students to improve their learning experiences in the classroom	Talitiga Ian Fasavalu and Kate Thornton	2019
Investing in “success” as Māori and Pacific: The collaborative development of Ngā Tau Tuangahuru, a longitudinal evaluation study	Rachael Trotman, Fiona Cram, Tanya Wendt Samu, Moi Becroft, Reremoana Theodore, and Tony Trinick	2018