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"You can try sound brainy": The use of process drama to engage Pasifika boys

Author(s): Claire Coleman
This study explored whether using process drama to teach social studies would engage Year 10 Pasifika boys at a secondary school in Auckland. The author describes how, while in role, students used...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Getting It Together: Cross-cultural communication

When a school acknowledges its cross-cultural differences and reaches out to all parents, the students can achieve better academically. This success story comes with the warning that improved home/...
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Aiming for Student Achievement: How teachers can understand and better meet the needs of Pacific Island and Maori students

By identifying issues that impact on student achievement in low decile schools with high ratios of Pacific Island and Maori students schools can improve the learning opportunities for these students...
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Using focus groups to support conceptual development in social studies

Author(s): Jody Plummer
What supports students to develop their conceptual understanding? Taking part in focus groups helped the Years 9 and 10 Māori and Pasifika students in this study to focus on understanding the...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Listening to and learning from Pacific families: The art of building home–school relationships at secondary level to support achievement

There is a strong case for building inclusive relationships with families in order to support academic success for Pacific secondary students. In this article, I review literature which considers the...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Māori and Pacific secondary student and parent perspectives on achievement, motivation and NCEA

Author(s): James Graham
New Zealand’s previous examination-based secondary assessment system can be viewed as encompassing cultural values presenting unfair challenges for indigenous and other nonmajority students. The...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Tū tangata: Culturally encompassing physical activity and its impact on the mental wellbeing and academic achievement of Pacific talavou

As part of their kaupapa of catering for the whole child, Pacific Advance Secondary School in Ōtāhuhu has implemented an innovative programme called Tū Tangata to get their talavou physically active...
| Year published: 2023 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article