Reimagining Teacher Subjectivity in Pacific Early Childhood Education in New Zealand

Autor/inn/en	Matapo, Jacoba; Teisina, Jeanne
Titel	Reimagining Teacher Subjectivity in Pacific Early Childhood Education in New Zealand
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 19 (2021) 4, S.493-506 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Matapo, Jacoba)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210320960890
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Early Childhood Education; Pacific Islanders; Indigenous Knowledge; Early Childhood Teachers; Professional Identity; Story Telling; Poetry; Epistemology; Educational Philosophy; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Early childhood education; Teacher; Teachers; Frühe Kindheit; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lyrik; Poesie; Erkenntnistheorie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Neuseeland
Abstract	This article presents a transnational Moana talanoa between two Pacific early childhood education scholars. Calling on both Samoan and Tongan indigenous understandings that breathe life into a Moana subjectivity is inclusive of ways of knowing, relating and becoming. We turn our attention to the importance of talanoa (stories/storying) in reconstituting olaga and tangata kakato in the act of decolonising Pacific personhood in New Zealand early childhood education. Moana, the waters that bind Pacific peoples through genealogy, relationality and cosmogony, generate intersubjectivity; a folding of past-present-futures. It is in the spirit of Moana that we bring attention to the interconnectedness of subjects in the context of early childhood education in New Zealand. By way of movement in and with Moana, the currents, depth and flows, we problematise politics of early childhood education and professional teacher identity. Such tensions require navigation and as Hawaiian scholar Meyer said: 'How one knows, indeed, what one prioritises with regards to this knowing, ends up being the stuffing of identity, the truth that links us to our distant cosmologies, and the essence of who we are as Oceanic peoples' (p. 125). In thinking-Moana-intersubjectivity, we call into question how the agency and subjectivity of teacher identity can be reimagined. We share our narratives through poetry and story as a mode of expression in analysing and decolonising personhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01