Soso'o le fau i le fau: Exploring What Factors Contribute to Samoan Children’s Cultural and Language Security From the Aoga Amata to Samoan Primary Bilingual Classrooms in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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Soso'o le fau i le fau: Exploring What Factors Contribute to Samoan Children’s Cultural and Language Security From the Aoga Amata to Samoan Primary Bilingual Classrooms in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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Auckland University of Technology

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The study explored how culture is understood and practiced in Aoga Amata by teachers, parents and children, and achieved this by following the journeys and experiences of seven children (aged 4.11 years) from three Auckland based Aoga Amata and into their first three months transitioning experience into a Samoan bilingual unit. In this study, I used the term ‘fau’ to stand for culture and the Samoan proverb soso’o le fau i le fau, to signal the transfer of culture between the two education si...

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Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2017

Creator

Tagoilelagi-Leota, Faasaulala

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https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/11022

Related subjects

Aoga Amata / Early childhood / Samoan culture / Samoan language / Transition

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