Academic Paper Writing Service http://StudyHub.vip/2019-Course-Outline--Research-Skills 👈

1. Lecturer's Course Form
Year 2019, Semester 1B
No. & title: P10CF02 Academic Skills 2: Research Skills
Required for MTh / PgDipl
Mode of delivery: face-to-face
Lecturer(s): Holger Szesnat
Description: This course is designed to help students develop and strengthen skills in
designing and conducting academic research projects under supervision,
including an academic thesis. The course will present practical skills and their
theoretical underpinnings as far as they are relevant to research in the classic
theological disciplines.
Objectives: By the time students complete this course, they should be able to:
o Develop a research project proposal, such as one for an academic
thesis.
o Conduct research under the guidance of a supervisor.
o Make effective use of research materials, including academic journals
(print / electronic) for research.
o Develop basic questionnaires and interviews that may be used for
academic research.
o Formulate views on and begin the practice of incorporating
indigenous research approaches into one's academic work.
o Prepare research (or work-in-progress) output in the form of a
presentation and a final report / thesis.
Method: Lectures, groupwork, classroom discussions, individual reading preparation
for classes; exercises & assignments.
Assessment: Assessed work will be discussed in detail in a separate document. The
major component will be a research / thesis proposal (worth 75% of the total
course grade). A minor assignment will be a summary with critical response
of a selected chapters from Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing
Methdologies (worth 25% of the total course grade). Details will be
communicated separately. Please note that the proposal will be graded on the
basis of technical criteria only. (For the purposes of gaining admission to
Year 2 of the MTh programme, students will additionally need approval from
their respective department.)
1
Pacific Theological College

2. Assignments are academic pieces of work; therefore, please ensure that you
write in accordance with fundamental academic writing requirements (avoid
plagiarism; reference fully; include a bibliography; etc.). Use the PTC
Assignment Cover Sheet. The PTC Document and Referencing Style Guide is
to be used and consulted for all written work.
Requirement The MTh / PgDipl course 'Academic Skills' is normally a prerequisite for this
course.
Course Outline
Week 1 Course introduction; What is research?; Writing a research proposal
Week 2 Literature survey (e.g., part of a research proposal) and literature review (e.g.,
as part of a thesis)
Week 3 From paragraph to essay and thesis: research writing
Week 4 Use of journals in general (including print journals); accessing electronic
journals online, including the ATLAS full-text database; use of book reviews;
using the internet for research
Weeks 5 & 6 Theory and practice of fieldwork: interviews, questionnaires, etc.; indigenous
approaches to research methodology; research ethics
Week 7 Offering a research project presentation; technical aspects of delivering a
project report / thesis
Bibliography
1. Core Text(s)
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T.
FitzGerald. 2016. The Craft of Research. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and
Publishing. 4th ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Dawson, Catherine. 2019. Introduction to Research Methods: A Practical Guide for Anyone
Undertaking a Research Project. 5th ed. London: Robinson.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2012. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. 2nd
ed. London: Zed.
The cost of these three books will be between F$100 and F$200. Since there was no textbook for the course 'Academic
Skills 1' in semester-half 1A, students are asked to combine their textbook allowance for the two Academic Skills
courses.
2

3. 2. Selection of Further Literature: Books, Theses, etc. (Reserve / Reference Shelves)
Ackroyd, Ruth, and David Major. 1999. Shaping the Tools: Study Skills in Theology. Exploring Faith:
Theology for Life. London: Darton Longman & Todd.
Alasuutari, Perti. 1995. Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies. London: SAGE.
Anae, Melani. 2017. "Teu Le Va: A New Pacific Research Paradigm." In Relational Hermeneutics:
Decolonising the Mindset and the Pacific Itulagi, edited by Upolu Luma Vaai and Aisake Casimira,
85–100. Suva: University of the South Pacific.
Arnaudet, Martin L., and Mary Ellen Barrett. 1984. Approaches to Academic Reading and Writing.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Arnaudet, Martin L., and Mary Ellen Barrett. 1990. Paragraph Development: A Guide for Students of
English. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents.
Babbie, Earl R. 1995. The Practice of Social Research. 7th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Barr, Kevin J. 1990. Poverty in Fiji. Suva: Fiji Forum for Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation.
Belcher, Wendy Laura. 2009. Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing
Success. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Bennett, Zoe, Carol Reekie, and Esther Shreeve. 2014. Your MA in Theology: A Study Skills Handbook.
London: SCM.
Bless, Claire, Craig Higson-Smith, and Ashraf Kagee. 2006. Fundamentals of Social Research Methods: An
African Perspective. 4th
ed. Braamfontein: Juta.
Bryman, Alan, and Robert G. Burgess, eds. 1999. Qualitative Research. 4 vols. London: SAGE.
Burns, Robert B. 2000. Introduction to Research Methods. 3rd ed. Melbourne: Longman.
Cook, Claire Kehrwald. 1985. Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Cottrell, Stella. 2005. Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument. Palgrave Study
Guides. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Creswell, John W. 2007. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches. 2nd
ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Ernst, Manfred, and Lydia Johnson, eds. 2017. Navigating Troubled Waters: The Ecumenical Movement in
the Pacific Islands since the 1980s. Suva: Pacific Theological College.
Fairbairn, Gavin, and Christopher Winch. 1996. Reading, Writing and Reasoning: A Guide for Students. 2nd
ed. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Francis, Leslie J., Mandy Robbins, and Jeff Astley, eds. 2009. Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables:
Qualitative, Quantitative and Comparative Perspectives. Empirical Studies in Theology 17. Leiden:
Brill.
Geertz, Clifford. 1983. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York, NY:
Basic Books.
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. 2006. 'They Say / I Say': The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing.
New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
———. 2010. 'They Say / I Say': The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. New York, NY:
W.W. Norton.
Greenstein, Ran, ed. 2003. “Research Methods Training Manual.” Unpublished manuscript. University of the
Witwatersrand.
Gupta, Nijay K. 2011. Prepare, Succeed, Advance: A Guidebook for Getting a PhD in Biblical Studies and
Beyond. Eugene, OR: Pickwick.
Hart, Chris. 1998. Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. London:
SAGE.
Havea, Jione, ed. 2010. Talanoa Ripples: Across Borders, Cultures, Disciplines. s.l.: Massey University.
hooks, bell. 1994. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York, NY:
Routledge.
Howell, Martha C., and Walter Prevenier. 2001. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical
Methods. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Jacobs, Donald Trent (Four Arrows). 2008. The Authentic Dissertation: Alternative Ways of Knowing,
Research, and Representation. London: Routledge.
Jupp, Victor, ed. 2006. The SAGE Dictionary of Social Research Methods. London: SAGE Publications.
Kamler, Barbara, and Pat Thomson. 2014. Helping Doctoral Students Write: Pedagogies for Supervision.
2nd ed. London: Routledge.
3

4. Kelly, Gabrielle. 2004. English for Theology: Developing Proficiency in Academic English for Theological
Studies: With a Special Focus on Reading Skills. Dominican Series 1. Hindmarsh (South Australia):
ATF Press.
Khan, Chantelle, and Kevin J. Barr. 2003. Christianity, Poverty and Wealth at the Start of the 21st Century:
Fiji Country Case Study. Suva: ECREA.
Kibbe, Michael. 2016. From Topic to Thesis: A Guide to Theological Research. Downers Grove, IL:
InterVarsity Press.
Kiki, Gwayaweng. 2009. Wokabaut-Karikulum: A Community Praxis for Theological Education Training in
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea: Lambert Academic.
———. 2017. "A Relational Hermeneutical Approach to Theological Education in the Pacific Context." In
Relational Hermeneutics: Decolonising the Mindset and the Pacific Itulagi, edited by Upolu Luma
Vaai and Aisake Casimira, 45–63. Suva: University of the South Pacific.
Koya-Vaka'uta, Cresantia Frances. 2017. "Rethinking Research as Relational Space in the Pacific: Pedagogy
and Praxis." In Relational Hermeneutics: Decolonising the Mindset and the Pacific Itulagi, edited by
Upolu Luma Vaai and Aisake Casimira, 65–84. Suva: University of the South Pacific.
Kuhn, Thomas S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press.
Lannon, John M. 1986. The Writing Process: A Concise Rhetoric. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
Mamak, Alexander, and Grant McCall, eds. 1978. Paradise Postponed: Essays on Research & Development
in the South Pacific. Rushcutters Bay: Pergamon.
Marin, Ileana, ed. 2006. Collective Decision Making around the World: Essays on Historical Deliberation
Practices. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation Press.
Marius, Richard, and Melvin E. Page. 2007. A Short Guide to Writing About History. 6th ed. New York, NY:
Pearson/Longman.
Mauch, James E., and Jack W. Birch. 1998. Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: A Handbook
for Students and Faculty. Books in Library and Information Science 58. 4th ed. New York, NY:
Marcel Dekker.
Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi. 2006. Knowing and Learning: An Indigenous Fijian Approach. Suva: Institute of
Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.
Narsey, Wadan. 2006. Just Living Wages for Fiji: Lifting Workers out of Poverty. Suva: Vanuavou
Publications.
———. 2008. The Quantitative Analysis of Poverty in Fiji. Suva: Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics; The
School of Economics, University of the South Pacific.
Oliver, Paul. 2012. Succeeding with Your Literature Review: A Handbook for Students. Open up Study
Skills. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Oshima, Alice, and Ann Hogue. 1999. Writing Academic English. 3rd ed. White Plains, NY: Longman.
Pazmiño, Robert W. 2009. Doing Theological Research: An Introductory Guide for Survival in Theological
Education. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
Phelps, Renata, Kath Fisher, and Allan Ellis. 2007. Organizing and Managing Your Research: A Practical
Guide for Postgraduates. London: SAGE.
Phillips, Estelle, and Derek Salman Pugh. 1994. How to Get a Ph.D.: A Handbook for Students and Their
Supervisors. 2nd ed. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Rose, Jean. 2001. The Mature Student's Guide to Writing. Palgrave Study Guides. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Eve Tuck, and K. Wayne Yang, eds. 2019. Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in
Education: Mapping the Long View. New York, NY: Routledge.
Society of Biblical Literature, ed. 2014. The SBL Handbook of Style. 2nd ed. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press.
Sotiriou, Peter Elias. 1992. Integrating College Study Skills: Reasoning in Reading, Listening, and Writing.
3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Sua'ali'i-Sauni, Tamasailau, Albert Wendt, Vitolia Mo'a, Naomi Fuamatu, Upolu Luma Va'ai, Reina
Whaitiri, and Stephen L. Filipo, eds. 2014. Whispers and Vanities: Samoan Indigenous Knowledge
and Religion. Wellington: Huia Publishers.
Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. 2004. Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks
and Skills. Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes. 2nd ed. Ann Arbor,
MI: University of Michigan Press.
———. 2012. Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students. 3rd ed. Ann Arbor, MI: University
of Michigan Press.
4

5. Taylor, Gordon. 2009. A Student's Writing Guide: How to Plan and Write Successful Essays. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Teasdale, G. R., and Zane Ma Rhea, eds. 2000. Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education. Issues in
Higher Education 14. New York, NY: Pergamon.
Thomson, Pat, and Barbara Kamler. 2016. Detox Your Writing: Strategies for Doctoral Researchers.
Abingdon: Routledge.
Toulmin, Stephen, Richard D. Rieke, and Allan Janik. 1979. An Introduction to Reasoning. New York, NY:
Macmillan.
Turabian, Kate L. 1996. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th ed. Chicago,
IL: University of Chicago Press.
Vyhmeister, Nancy J. 2008. Quality Research Papers for Students of Religion and Theology. 2nd ed. Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
Waddingham, Anne, ed. 2014. New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Walsh, A. Crosbie. 1996. Getting on Top of Your Thesis: The Essential Research Skills. Te Amokura:
Amokura.
Walsh, Crosbie. 2006. Fiji: An Encyclopaedic Atlas. Suva: University of the South Pacific.
Walton, Douglas N. 2006. Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation. Critical Reasoning and Argumentation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, Robert S. 1994. Learning from Strangers: The Art and the Method of Qualitative Interview Studies
New York, NY: Free Press.
Wellington, Jerry, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Cheryl Hunt, Gary McCulloch, and Pat Sikes. 2005. Succeeding
with Your Doctorate. London: SAGE.
Yaghjian, Lucretia B. 2006. Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers.
London: Continuum.
Yin, Robert K. 2003. Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Applied Social Research Methods Series
5. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Zemach, Dorothy E., and Lisa A. Rumisek. 2003. Academic Writing: From Paragraph to Essay. Oxford:
Macmillan.
Zinsser, William. 2001. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. 25th anniversary edition.
New York, NY: Quill.
Zocca, Franco, ed. 2009. Sanguma in Paradise: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea.
Goroka: Melanesian Institute.
Zocca, Franco, and Nicholas de Groot. 1997. Young Melanesian Project Data Analysis. Point Series 21.
Goroka: Melanesian Institute for Pastoral and Socio-Economic Service.
3. Selection of Further Literature: Books, Theses, etc. (Internet)
Anae, Melani, Eve Coxon, Diane Mara, Tanya Wendt-Samu, and Christine Finau. 2001. Pasifika Education
Research Guidelines. Wellington: Ministry of Education, New Zealand.
https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/pasifika/5915 (accessed 21 March 2019).
Airini, Melani Anae, Karlo Mila-Schaaf, Eve Coxon, Diane Mara, and Kabini Sanga. 2010. Teu Le Va:
Relationships across Research and Policy in Pasifika Education: A Collective Approach to
Knowledge Generation and Policy Development for Action Towards Pasifika Education Success.
s.l.: Ministry of Education, New Zealand.
https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/pasifika/teu-le-va-relationships-across-research-
and-policy-in-pasifika-education/executive-summary (accessed 21 March 2019).
Alatas, Syed Hussein. 1972. "The Captive Mind in Development Studies: Some Neglected Problems and the
Need for an Autonomous Social Science Tradition in Asia." International Social Science Journal 24
(1):9–25. http://eprints.usm.my/8298 (accessed 21 March 2019).
———. 1974. "The Captive Mind in Development Studies." International Social Science Journal 26
(4):691–700. http://eprints.usm.my/8300 (accessed 21 March 2019).
———. 2006. "The Autonomous, the Universal and the Future of Sociology." Current Sociology 54 (1):7–
23. http://eprints.usm.my/8250 (accessed 21 March 2019).
Barnes, Alex. 2013. What Can Pākehā Learn from Engaging in Kaupapa Māori Educational Research?
Working Paper 1. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
5

6. https://www.nzcer.org.nz/research/publications/what-can-pakeha-learn-engaging-kaupapa-maori-
educational-research (accessed 21 March 2019).
Barnes, Helen Moewaka. 2000. "Kaupapa Maori: Explaining the Ordinary." Pacific Health Dialog 7 (1):13–
16. http://pacifichealthdialog.org.fj/Volume207/No120Maori20Health20in20New20Zealand/
Original20Papers/Kaupapa20maori20explaining20the20ordinary.pdf (accessed 22 March 2019).
Bennett, Judy, Mark Brunton, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau, Faafetai Sopoaga, Naomi Weaver, Garry Witte, and
Stuart Dawr. 2013. "Pacific Research Protocols from the University of Otago." Contemporary
Pacific 25 (1):95–124. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/32892 (accessed 21 March 2019).
Chilisa, Bagele, Thenjiwe Emily Major, Michael Gaotlhobogwe, and Hildah Mokgolodi. 2015.
"Decolonizing and Indigenizing Evaluation Practice in Africa: Toward African Relational
Evaluation Approaches." Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 30 (3):313–328.
https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cjpe/article/view/31086 (accessed 21 March 2019).
Chu, Cherie, Ivy Samala Abella, and Seann Paurini. 2013. Educational Practices That Benefit Pacific
Learners in Tertiary Education. Wellington: Ako Aotearoa, National Centre for Tertiary Teaching
Excellence. https://ako.ac.nz/knowledge-centre/pasifika-learner-success-tertiary-education/
educational-practices-that-benefit-pacific-learners-in-tertiary-education (accessed 22 March 2019).
Cochrane, Rebekah. 2018. How to Collaborate with Pacific Churches for Development Research: Guidance
for Effective Approaches to Collaborations with Churches in the Pacific for Development Research.
s.l.: Research for Development Impact Network.
https://rdinetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RDI-Network_2018_How-to-collaborate-
with-Pacific-Churches_fv.pdf (accessed 19 March 2019).
Conn, Cath, Ayan Said, Losi Sa'uLilo, Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Laurent Antonczak, Sari Andajani, and G.
Ofa Blake. 2016. "Pacific Talanoa and Participatory Action Research: Providing a Space for
Auckland Youth Leaders to Contest Inequalities." Development Bulletin 77:49–53.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Pacific-Talanoa-and-Participatory-Action-Research-%3A-
Conn-Said/f65736bfcbcf0064cf98ffdb91319b8f7f0fd5e0 (accessed 19 March 2019).
Devi, Ravina. 2012. "An Investigation on Pasifika Students's Attitudes Towards Reading Comprehension".
M.Ed. thesis, Auckland University, Auckland. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19659 (accessed 19 March
2019).
Drawson, Alexandra, Elaine Toombs, and Christopher J. Mushquash. 2017. "Indigenous Research Methods:
A Systematic Review." International Indigenous Policy Journal 8 (2).
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol8/iss2/5 (accessed 21 March 2019).
Fa'avae, David, Alison Jones, and Linitā Manu'atu. 2016. "Talanoa'i 'a E Talanoa: Talking About Talanoa:
Some Dilemmas of a Novice Researcher." AlterNative 16:138–150.
http://repository.usp.ac.fj/9564/1/Talanoa%27i_
%27a_e_talanoa_Talking_about_talanoa_FAAVAE_ET_AL_2016.pdf (accessed 19 March 2019).
Farelli, Trisia, and Unaisi Nabobo-Baba. 2012. "Talanoa as Empathic Research." Available at
http://www.devnet.org.nz/sites/default/files/Farrelly,%20Trisia%20&%20Nabobo-Baba,%20Unaisi
%20Talanoa%20as%20Empathic%20Research%20[paper]_0.pdf.
Fiji Bureau of Statistics. 2018. 2017 Fiji Population and Housing Census: Administrative Report and
General Tables. Suva: Fiji Bureau of Statistics. https://www.statsfiji.gov.fj/index.php/census-
2017/894-census-release-3-2018 (accessed 19 February 2018).
Forster, Margaret. 2003. "Te Hoe Nuku Roa: A Journey Towards Maori Centered Research." Ethnobotany
Research and Applications 1:47–53.
http://www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/28 (accessed 22 March 2019).
Forsyth, Miranda, and Richard Eves, eds. 2015. Talking It Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft
Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia. Canberra: ANU Press. http://press.anu.edu.au?p=316611
(accessed 22 May 2015).
Halapua, Sitiveni. 2013. "Talanoa in Building Democracy and Governance." Available at http://talanoa.org/
Home_files/Talanoa%20in%20Building%20Democracy%20and%20Governance.pdf.
———. s.a. "Talanoa Process: The Case of Fiji." Available at
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan022610.pdf.
Ioane, Julia. 2017. "Talanoa with Pasifika Youth and Their Families." New Zealand Journal of Psychology
46 (3):38–45. https://www.psychology.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/Talanoa-with-Pasifika-youth-and-
their-families-private.pdf (accessed 19 March 2019).
6

7. Johansson Fua, Seu'ula. 2012. Tohi Tokoni Ma'a E Faiako: Founga Fekumi: Research Manual for Teachers.
s.l.: Institute of Education, University of the South Pacific. http://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/5387
(accessed 21 March 2019).
———. 2014. "Kakala Research Framework: A Garland in Celebration of a Decade of Rethinking
Education." In Of Waves, Winds and Wonderful Things: A Decade of Rethinking Pacific Education,
edited by Mo'ale 'Otunuku, Unaisi Nabobo-Baba and Seu'ula Johansson Fua, 50–60. Suva:
University of the South Pacific Press. http://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/8197 (accessed 22 March
2019).
Keane, Moyra, Constance Khupe, and Maren Seehawer. 2017. "Decolonising Methodology: Who Benefits
from Indigenous Knowledge Research?" Educational Research for Social Change 6 (1):12–24.
http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2221-4070/2017/v6i1a2 (accessed 19 March 2019).
Keikelame, Mpoe Johannah, and Leslie Swartz. 2019. "Decolonising Research Methodologies: Lessons from
a Qualitative Research Project, Cape Town, South Africa." Global Health Action 12 (1):156–175.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F16549716.2018.1561175 (accessed 19 March 2019).
Khupe, Constance, and Moyra Keane. 2017. "Towards an African Education Research Methodology:
Decolonising New Knowledge." Educational Research for Social Change 6 (1):25–37.
http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2221-4070/2017/v6i1a3 (accessed 19 March 2019).
Mahuika, Rangimarie. 2008. "Kaupapa Māori Theory Is Critical and Anti-Colonial." MAI Review 2008 (3).
http://www.review.mai.ac.nz/MR/article/view/153.html (accessed 19 March 2019).
Malungahu, Melvena, Samuela 'Ofanoa, Peter Huggard, Malakai 'Ofanoa, and Stephen Buetow. 2017.
"Lalanga: Weaving the Kakala with Constructionist Grounded Theory." International Journal of
Health Sciences 5 (4):48–52. http://ijhsnet.com/journals/ijhs/Vol_5_No_4_December_2017/5.pdf
(accessed 19 March 2019).
Mane, Jo. 2009. "Kaupapa Māori: A Community Approach." MAI Review 2009 (3). http://review.mai.ac.nz/
MR/article/view/243.html (accessed 21 March 2019).
McFall-McCaffery, Judy. 2010. "Getting Started with Pacific Research: Finding Resources and Information
on Pacific Research Models and Methodologies." MAI Review 2010 (1). http://review.mai.ac.nz/MR/
article/view/332.html (accessed 19 March 2019).
Mertens, Donna M. 2010. "An Introduction to Research." In Research and Evaluation in Education and
Psychology: Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods, 1–46.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/29985_Chapter1.pdf (accessed 20 March
2019).
Nakhid, Camille, John Paul Fa'alofo, Meiolandre Faiva, Daisy Halafihi, Sam Pilisi, John Senio, Sidney
Taylor, and Luke Thomas. 2007. "Aua'i I Le Galuega: A Pasifika Research Design Ensuring
Ownership and Autonomy." Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 32:106–125.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/21195403 (accessed 21 March 2019).
Ofanoa, Malakai, Teuila Percival, Peter Huggard, and Stephen Buetow. 2015. "Talanga: The Tongan Way
Enquiry." Sociology Study 5 (4):334–340. http://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/
55b5e6f60773b.pdf (accessed 19 March 2019).
'Otonuku, Mo'ale. 2011. "Talanoa: How Can It Be Used Effectively as an Indigenous Research Methodology
with Tongan People?" Pacific-Asian Education 23 (2):43–52. http://repository.usp.ac.fj/6879
(accessed 21 March 2019).
Otsuka, Setsuo. 2005. "Talanoa Research: Culturally Appropriate Research Design in Fiji." Available at
https://www.aare.edu.au/data/publications/2005/ots05506.pdf.
Picton, Catherine, Mike Horsley, and Bruce Allen Knight. 2016. "Exploring Conceptualisations of
Disability: A Talanoa Approach to Understanding Cultural Frameworks of Disability in Samoa."
Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development 27 (1):17–32. http://dcidj.org/article/view/502 (accessed
19 March 2019).
Pihama, Leonie, Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai, and Kim Southey, eds. 2015. Kaupapa Rangahau: A Reader: A
Collection of Readings from the Kaupapa Rangahau Workshop Series. 2nd ed. Hamilton: Te Kotahi
Research Institute. https://www.waikato.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/339885/Kaupapa-
Rangahau-A-Reader_2nd-Edition.pdf (accessed 19 March 2019).
Robinson, David, and Kayt Robinson. 2005. "Pacific Ways of Talk – Hui and Talanoa." Accessed 19 March
2019. Available at http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/formidable/
robinson4.pdf.
7

8. Sanga, Kabini, and Martyn Reynolds. 2016. "To Know More of What It Is and What It Is Not: Pacific
Research on the Move." Pacific Dynamics 1 (2):198–204.
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/14973/1Kabini%20Sanga.pdf (accessed 19 March
2019).
Sauni, Seiuli Luama. 2011. "Samoan Research Methodology: The Ula: A New Paradigm." Pacific-Asian
Education 23 (2):53–64. http://programs.crdg.hawaii.edu/pcc/PAE_23__2__final_11.pdf (accessed
21 March 2019).
Tagaloa, Misipouena Suaesi. 2008. "Tafesilafa'i: Towards a Samoan Epistemology in the Diaspora". Ph.D.
diss., Claremont School of Theology. https://archive.org/details/TafesilafaiTowardsASamoan
(accessed 21 March 2019).
Te Wāhanga, Jessica Hutchings, Jessica Potter, and Katrina P. T. Taupo, eds. 2011. Kei Tua O Te Pae Hui
Proceedings: The Challenges of Kaupapa Māori Research in the 21st Century, Pipitea Marae,
Wellington, 5–6 May 2011. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/system/files/Hui_Procedings__v3_Web_1_2.pdf (accessed 21 December
2016).
Thaman, Konai Helu. 1995. "Concepts of Learning, Knowledge and Wisdom in Tonga, and Their Relevance
to Modern Education." Prospects 25 (4):723–733.
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000106205 (accessed 19 March 2019).
———. 2003. "Decolonizing Pacific Studies: Indigenous Perspectives, Knowledge, and Wisdom in Higher
Education." Contemporary Pacific 15 (1):1–17. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/13690 (accessed 19
March 2019).
———. 2009. "Towards Cultural Democracy in Teaching and Learning with Specific References to Pacific
Island Nations (Pins)." International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 3 (2).
https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2009.030206 (accessed 19 March 2019).
Tolich, Martin. 2002. "Pākehā Paralysis: Cultural Safety for Those Researching the General Population of
Aotearoa." Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 19:164–178. https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-
and-our-work/publications-resources/journals-and-magazines/social-policy-journal/spj19/pakeha-
paralysis19-pages164-178.html (accessed 21 March 2019).
Tuafuti, Patisepa. 2011. "Multiple Challenges in Research within the Fa'asamoa Context." Pacific-Asian
Education 23 (2):33–42. http://programs.crdg.hawaii.edu/pcc/PAE_23__2__final_11.pdf (accessed
21 March 2019).
University of Otago. 2011. Pacific Research Protocols. Dunedin: University of Otago.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/pacific-at-otago/otago089209.pdf (accessed 19 March 2019).
Vaioleti, Timote M. 2006. "Talanoa Research Methodology: A Developing Position on Pacific Research."
Waikato Journal of Education 12:21–34. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6199 (accessed 19 March
2019).
Venning, Jackie, and Femke Buisman-Pijlman. 2011. "The Development of an Assessment Matrix to
Promote Student Learning in Postgraduate Multidisciplinary Research." Ergo 2 (2):37–44.
https://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/ergo/article/view/1069 (accessed 21 March 2019).
Walker, Shayne, Anaru Eketone, and Anita Gibbs. 2006. "An Exploration of Kaupapa Maori Research, Its
Principles, Processes and Applications." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 9
(4):331–344.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248988582_An_exploration_of_kaupapa_Maori_research_
its_principles_processes_and_applications (accessed 21 March 2019).
Williams, Les R. Tumoana, and Adreanne Ormond. 2010. "What Is Research?" MAI Review 2010 (3). http://
www.review.mai.ac.nz/MR/article/view/398.html (accessed 21 March 2019).
8