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I'Uogafa Tuagalu
PhD (AUT) Master of Arts (Auck), DipLIBR (Vict Well).
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June 2017 - November 2023
January 1991 - November 1991
March 1986 - November 1988
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The Samoan concept of vā is widely used in academic studies on Pacific peoples. The term vā is usually defined as "relationship, relations (between two things and people)." This thesis examines the ontological status of the Samoan notion of vā; and traces its development in Samoan history from c.1000AD-1914. This development culminates in the emerg...
I‘uogafa Tuagalu introduces the Samoan concept of vā as intertwining social and sacred spatial relationalities. Tuagalu discusses the meaning of vā over time in several dictionaries, as well as different types of vā and their energies. He suggests that vā can be ‘conceived as a field, in which objects are located and wherein vā-forces operate’. Inv...
In New Zealand, there is growing evidence to suggest an academic achievement disparity between Pacific Islands and Asian university students. The present study investigated an aspect of this disparity and considered students' intentions to seek academic support services and their actual uptake of those services. One hundred and fifty two tertiary s...
The Oxford Dictionary of Sociology defines a heuristic device 'as a form of preliminary analysis' (Marshall, 1998: 274). Such devices have proved especially useful in studies of social change by defining benchmarks around which variation and differences can then be situated. In this context a heuristic device is usually employed for analytical clar...
Chapter in a festschrift that discusses the methodology of His Highness Tui Atua Tupua, former Head of State of Samoa. Publication is on the occasion of HH's 70th birthday. This chapter specifically discusses romantic influences in Tui Atua's writings, but more generally applies romantic philosophy to Samoan society and thought.