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Link to paper here: …https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2020.1852188 I'm sure @_PatrickThomsen will send you a copy if you don't have access
"Thus, we believe that universities need to commit to not only hiring more Pacific academics, but also provide greater institutional and financial support for the development of PECA networks across different faculties, schools and disciplines."
"Progressing towards decolonised tertiary education is necessary as universities underpinned by foundational whiteness reproduce a monocultural knowledge system entrenched in Western ontologies and epistemologies"
"In their experience, Pacific knowledges & pedagogies were not something that they were exposed to in their academic disciplines and training as doctoral students. Rather, it was feeling alienated in academic spaces that brought them back to their own communities and knowledges"
"Being a Sāmoan student who felt disconnected and unseen in the learning environment created at university means that from my first job teaching I have prioritised creating space for Pacific students to flourish by centring Pacific knowledges and pedagogy."
"I only came back to Pacific knowledge and Pacific Studies after being lost in disciplines that barely acknowledged the value of Pacific approaches to research and teaching"
"Our knowledge was never taught, but we were presented in mental health statistics." 
"Acknowledging that they were not the total authority on any 1 given topic was not seen as a weakness by informants, rather, it strengthened their ability to learn from their students; emphasising the relational nature of Pacific knowledges that impacted their pedagogical praxis"
"Being who you are at the front of the lecture theatre and sharing your knowledge unapologetically provides students who also experience marginalisation a way to see how they can bring their own knowledge into these spaces."
"The majority have never had a Pacific person at the front of the lecture theatre before. [.......]. It helps to normalise Pacific people as authorities on knowledge and disrupts the foundational whiteness of university systems."
"Nobody asks a pālagi if they are comfortable using pālagi views in physics or history. I try to frame my work as this is my understanding from a very specific standpoint and history which is different to others."
Thank you for your extremely powerful and poignant words @_PatrickThomsen, @LeenenYoung, @SereanaNaepi
, @KaramiaMuller, @DeepFriedDreams, @SSisifa
, @BaiceTim our unis are better places because you are there!!!!!!
, @KaramiaMuller, @DeepFriedDreams, @SSisifa
, @BaiceTim our unis are better places because you are there!!!!!!
Also check out this great thread from Patrick who led this brilliant mahi and kaupapa https://twitter.com/_patrickthomsen/status/1348738394839425025
