Pepe Meamea as a Framework for Samoan Infants and Toddlers in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Pepe Meamea as a Framework for Samoan Infants and Toddlers in Aotearoa New Zealand

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This article conceptualises Pepe Meamea (Samoan concept of infant/toddler) to ground Samoan cultural understandings, values and beliefs of the Samoan child as a collective, holistic and relational being. The Samoan worldview of children and childhood prioritises the whole child, and this has implications when positioned within a dominant Eurocentric early childhood curriculum (ECE) curriculum and pedagogy framework. The semiotics of the Samoan language references a collective position for per...

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Date created

2022-08-01

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Tagoilelagi-Leota, Fa’asaulala / Utumapu-McBride, Tafili / Matapo, Jacoba

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/61693

Related subjects

Pediatric / 4 Quality Education / 13 Education

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