Tafesilafa'i : towards a Samoan epistemology in the diaspora / Misi Pouena Tagaloa.
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[United States :
M.P. Tagaloa,
2010]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Background and Introduction
- Personal Journey
- Growing in Faith
- A Life Cycle Event
- A New Vision
- 2. Methodology: Grounded Theory and Narrative Inquiry
- Grounded Theory
- Historical Background
- Our Research Strategy
- Narrative Inquiry
- Historical Background
- Description of the Method
- Variations in the Field
- Social Interactions
- Key Participants
- Smaller Focus Groups
- Analysis of Data
- Hypothesis Formulation
- Challenges Encountered and Impact on Theory Creation
- Focus Groups
- Researchers Role as an Insider
- Writing About an Oral Culture
- Lost In Translation
- The Water We Swim in
- 3. Context of Research
- Epistemological Infrastructures
- Communal Infrastructures
- Immediate Family
- Village in Diaspora
- Extended Family
- Village Proper
- Social Structures in the Diaspora
- Research Sites
- Religious Infrastructures
- Concept of the Va
- Samoan Cosmogony
- Solo o le Va
- Genealogical Links
- Va with the Cosmos
- Va with the Environment
- Va between Humans
- Va between One and Self
- Political Infrastructures
- Malae - Open Space
- Challenges to Survival in the Borderland
- Se’i Sau Malama - The Illusion of Someday
- 4. How Samoans Come to Know
- How Do Persons Learn?
- Perception via Causal Efficacy
- Perception via Presentational Immediacy
- How Samoans Come to Know
- Samoan Cosmogony
- Coming to Know
- Samoan Epistemology
- Goals and Aspirations
- 5. Interaction for Community Building and Organizing
- Community Building and Organizing
- Organizing the Samoan Community in Diaspora
- Reaching out to the Second Generation
- Community Building Relationships
- Persons and God
- Persons and Persons
- Parent to Child
- Brother to Sister
- Victim to Offender
- Person to Self
- Persons and Environment
- Tafesilafa’i
- Alagaupu - Proverbs
- Community Issues
- Economics
- Spirituality
- Health
- Values
- Language
- Education
- Art as a Metaphor
- Role of the learner
- Role of the teacher
- 6. Action and Reflection: Theo-Socio-Economic Scaffolding
- Theological Implication
- Social Implications
- Cultural and Social Learning
- Economic Implications Tafesilafa'i Curriculum
- 7. Findings and next steps
- Limitations of the Research
- Next Steps
- Research Insights.
