Grounding our collective Talanoa : enabling open conversations

Shares their talanoa thoughts and open conversations from the University of Waikato. Introduces this special issue of research from Pacific scholars from across Moananuiākea/the Pacific. Explains the deliberate positioning of talanoa–vā, coupled together with the hyphen, to emphasise the centrality of relationality in Pacific philosophising and to acknowledge and embrace critical interrogations and in-depth theorising as being a significant part of Pacific-centred research sense-making, meaning-making, and praxis. Indicates themes around how Pacific concepts and ideas can operate in such a physically distant context, when traditional practices and concepts are predicated on physical proximity and, moreover, how culturally responsive pedagogy, curriculum and innovation can still occur under such circumstances. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.