Community Education

This project, funded through our Hei Toko Project Fund, explored challenges and access to tertiary education experienced by tertiary learners in Te Tai Tokerau (Northland).

Over the past few years, the Northern Hub has offered new stakeholders an opportunity to sample Ako Aotearoa’s services with a Community Showcase.

This NPF research project examines good organisational practice that supports Pacific learners to succeed in tertiary education using the Kakala Research Framework.  The research will enable tertiary institutions to understand what can be done in order to achieve, sustain and reproduce Pasifika student success. This research will have significant positive impacts on educational institutions and Pasifika learners:

1) By shifting attention from negative and deficit explanations of Pasifika student achievement to a focus on exemplars of success. The research will benefit Pasifika learners as there will be clear stories of success that will help to inform theory and practice.
2) As a result of reporting learning exemplars, institutions can be inspired to improve and strengthen their own policy frameworks, actions and practices. Consequently, learners will benefit from more exerted efforts from a strength-based approach to educational success.
3) The tertiary environment will gain a more in-depth insight into the realities and aspirations of Pasifika learners and their communities.
 

This NPF project examined the effectiveness of the Storybook Dads approach to increasing literacy amongst male prisoners.

This project evaluated the effectiveness of marae and community-based Mātauranga Māori programmes provided through community education in the Taranaki region.

These videos describe a literacy training programme that supports second chance learners progress into higher education and employment