Communicating Within, Between and Beyond Social Categories

Abstract

New Zealand’s education system has generally remained silent on the topic of whiteness, white privilege and supremacy and the Eurocentric nature of our schooling policy and practice. Relevant to New Zealand-born Pasifika students and families is the acknowledgement of language and culture loss as a result of colonisation. While the disappearance of this cultural capital is evident, the visual arts presents the possibility for reimagining schools through approaches that validate Pasifika perspectives.