This article proposes a Samoan indigenous philosophical position to reconceptualise the
dialogic spaces of talanoa; particularly how talanoa is applied methodologically to research …

Talanoa has been defined as 'talking about nothing in particular','chat'or 'gossip'. It is within
the cultural milieu of talanoa that knowledge and emotions are shared and new knowledge …

Talanoa (Moana-centred orality) is a widely used Indigenous Pacific discursive approach
within research contexts across the diaspora. In a globalised and technologically enhanced …

Story dialogue known as talanoa is increasingly finding its place as a Pacific research
method. The authors situate talanoa as an Indigenous concept of relationally mindful critical …

Indigenous knowledge is generally understood to be knowledge developed by a particular
group in their specific environment over an extended period of time. In academia generally …

Pasifika social science researchers in Pacific contexts are encouraged to use research
methods that reflect the lived realities of their participants, rather than reproduce what are …

A number of researchers have done extensive work on ontologies, epistemologies and
pedagogies in relation to Pasifika research, but little on methodologies. Vaioleti describes …

The coupling of mana moana is grounded in inspiration from and through Indigeneity and
Moana sense-making (intimate understanding through our sensibilities within Oceania) …

This article introduces Tofā'a'anolasi, a novel Samoan research framework created by
drawing on the work of other Samoan and Pacific education researchers, in combination …

This paper contributes to the theorising on Pacific research approaches from a personal and
Tongan perspective. At the same time, it suggests that the majority of the thinking and …