As part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and film series 2019, Dr Norma Rosales-Anderson presented her seminar at the National University of Samoa on Thursday, 25 July 2019. According to Dr Rosales-Anderson, her presentation, “portrays my research journey while being an educator at Te Wananga o Aotearoa, an Indigenous/Maori tertiary education organisation. My research journey between the two worlds of Indigenous and Western, are illustrated. The challenges, possibilities and impossibilities of navigating these two worlds within Indigenous tertiary education organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand, Chile and Argentina, were the main aims of my research. The characteristics, customs and traditions of the researched organisations will be shown. Culturally responsive methodologies were employed in my research as a way of navigating multiple ethos. the dichotomy of principles and values from the two worlds are revealed through the findings of my research. From the findings a model centred on cultural values was created and is shown in this presentation.”
Dr Norma Rosales-Anderson is Argentinian living in Aotearoa, New Zealand for the last three decades. Presently, she is a Senior Lecturer for the Bachelor of Bicultural Social Work in Te Wananga o Aotearoa (Maori Tertiary Education Organisation). Her research interest is in navigating academic quality between Indigenous and Western spaces within tertiary education. Her PhD thesis is a tripartite border-crossing investigation of academic renaissance within tertiary contexts for Maori (Aotearoa), Mapuche (Chile) and Mocovi (Argentina).
