M Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 28247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5742-1074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Looking for Hope in the Metacrisis: Learning From the Young and Indigenous
This article offers a response of hope to the metacrisis. Because of modernity’s philosophical premises, particularly Enlightenment concepts that separated humanity from nature, modern approaches to environmental challenges embrace a dualistic schism between culture and nature, fragmenting understanding through the compartmentalisation of knowledge. In our current situation, many feel bleak and too helpless to act. In response, we offer the exper…
Exploring Experiences of Māori Youth in Tertiary Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Many Indigenous Māori students journey to tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand, following diverse journeys with varying degrees of encouragement. However, on arrival, they can be faced with the prospect of living simultaneously in two worlds; te ao Māori (the Māori world), which privileges relational connection, and the world of formal education, which tends towards individualization. In this situation, rangatahi (Māori youth) deal with the…
Enhancing oralities methodology: Ontological framing and cultural principles in research
Fijian veitalanoa: An ontological exploration of Oceania oralities through silence
Silence is a seldom discussed but essential aspect of any Pacific Indigenous orality, communicating much. This article explores Fijian orality in the form of veitalanoa (a traditional orality or discursive form found in Fiji) by paying attention to silence. We discuss silence in Fijian veitalanoa through three themes drawn from an investigative veitalanoa which focus on people, space and time. In the article, ontological understanding of silence …
Quality education, connection and wellbeing: Māori tertiary students’ accounts
A sometimes-neglected aim of education in the context of Māori, the tangata whenau (indigenous peoples) of Aotearoa New Zealand, is to build Māori students (tauira) as Māori, a process that supports them to navigate the academic world as well as enhancing their Māoritanga (Māori practices, beliefs, way of life). Notions of educational quality, therefore, involve wellbeing––the extent to which Māori tauira flourish as individuals and as collective…
Oceania oralities research and sustainable education: Exploring layers of engagement
Oralities research has a central place in supporting sustainable education in the Oceania region because it has the potential to reveal what education does and could mean to communities at the local level. In this way, oralities research can assist interventions that key into and make sense of local ontological positions. The Oceania Oralities Framework (OOF) is an analytical tool that supports links between Oceania oralities and research. It pro…
Curating a connected community in virtual space: Solomon Islands Research Mentoring Tok Stori
This article examines the relationship between academic mentoring and tok stori, a Melanesian orality, in a digital environment. This relationship is significant where dispersal is an unintended consequence of the way development aid intersects with academic opportunities for scholars from less developed countries, and, consequently, country-focused academic communities remain undeveloped as education becomes individualised. This situation occurs…
Full Issue
This special issue of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations visits one of the most polarizing policy debates in the US. In 2012, voters in Washington and Colorado passed initiatives that legalized the recreational use of marijuana. In fact, there were about 75,000 more votes cast in support of marijuana legalization in Colorado than were given to reelect President Obama. Yet according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, Demo…
Bringing research back home: Exploring Indigenous Melanesian tok stori as ontology
Indigenous knowledge is generally understood to be knowledge developed by a particular group in their specific environment over an extended period of time. In academia generally, bodies of knowledge of differing origins are not often understood. This article employs ontology as a ground for developing relational clarity in the academy by considering two oral traditions—talanoa (a Polynesian conversational form) as represented in research and Mela…
Pacific Academic Migrants: Re-shaping Spaces in Dynamic Times (Dispatch)
Winds, tides and currents: A strengths-based approach to resilience in urban Pacific education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Mainstream thought on Pacific education tends to highlight the relatively poor educational achievement and sub-optimal experiences of Pacific learners in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article explores further understandings of the links between Pacific learners, their environments, and relational learning experiences. The argument is supported by recent developments in Pacific education that progress a vision of education in terms more Indigenous to…
Knowledge guardianship, custodianship and ethics: A Melanesian perspective
Across the world, knowledge communities categorise and attach conditions of guardianship to different kinds of knowledge. For private or secret knowledge, those responsible for its care have obligations for arranging and restricting transmission to ensure community survival. While an insider/outsider positionality is often used to navigate this knowledge area, a binary approach is unhelpful. Taking a more relational reading of positionality, we s…
Tok stori as pedagogy: An approach to school leadership education in Solomon Islands
Tok stori is a Melanesian form of dialogical engagement. Although it has been generally associated with informal activities, this article points to the potential of tok stori as a pedagogical or teaching process. Set in a school leadership programme spread across the Solomon Islands, the discussion illustrates the value of approaching the education of school leaders through their own experiences and in a manner to which they are accustomed. Data …
They Always Have My Back: A Strengths-Based Approach to Understanding the Value(s) of Pasifika Brotherhoods in Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Set in Aotearoa New Zealand, this examination of "Pasifika"education as an inter-cultural event discusses what students from the Pacificdiaspora say about educational success. Against a backdrop of literature that pays attention to teacher-student relationships, achievement targets, and peer relationships, the article uses Pacific concepts to theorise the dynamics between individuals, "brotherhood" groups, and success. It suggests that teachers a…
Relating to Va: Re-viewing the concept of relationships in Pasifika education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Intercultural understanding is required for effective intercultural education. The education of Pasifika students (those with cultural and/or family ties to Pacific Islands) living in Aotearoa New Zealand is a negative case in point. Research has linked Pasifika educational achievement to the quality of relationships between teachers and Pasifika students, but has generally stopped short of framing the discussion through Pasifika concepts. This a…
Preliminary Assessment of Achievement Levels in an Ethnic Community School
Townsville, North Queensland is the setting for a unique innovation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island education. A number of parents have opted out of the State education system in favour of developing a school which reflects their culture and which aims to provide a program better suited to black children.The Black Community School was established in October 1974. Initially it aimed to provide for children late in their primary schooling be…
They Always Have My Back: A Strengths-Based Approach to Understanding the Value(s) of Pasifika Brotherhoods in Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Set in Aotearoa New Zealand, this examination of "Pasifika"education as an inter-cultural event discusses what students from the Pacificdiaspora say about educational success. Against a backdrop of literature that pays attention to teacher-student relationships, achievement targets, and peer relationships, the article uses Pacific concepts to theorise the dynamics between individuals, "brotherhood" groups, and success. It suggests that teachers a…
Pacific Academic Migrants: Re-shaping Spaces in Dynamic Times (Dispatch)
Preliminary Assessment of Achievement Levels in an Ethnic Community School
Townsville, North Queensland is the setting for a unique innovation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island education. A number of parents have opted out of the State education system in favour of developing a school which reflects their culture and which aims to provide a program better suited to black children.The Black Community School was established in October 1974. Initially it aimed to provide for children late in their primary schooling be…
Relating to Va: Re-viewing the concept of relationships in Pasifika education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Intercultural understanding is required for effective intercultural education. The education of Pasifika students (those with cultural and/or family ties to Pacific Islands) living in Aotearoa New Zealand is a negative case in point. Research has linked Pasifika educational achievement to the quality of relationships between teachers and Pasifika students, but has generally stopped short of framing the discussion through Pasifika concepts. This a…
They Always Have My Back: A Strengths-Based Approach to Understanding the Value(s) of Pasifika Brotherhoods in Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Set in Aotearoa New Zealand, this examination of "Pasifika"education as an inter-cultural event discusses what students from the Pacificdiaspora say about educational success. Against a backdrop of literature that pays attention to teacher-student relationships, achievement targets, and peer relationships, the article uses Pacific concepts to theorise the dynamics between individuals, "brotherhood" groups, and success. It suggests that teachers a…
Knowledge guardianship, custodianship and ethics: A Melanesian perspective
Across the world, knowledge communities categorise and attach conditions of guardianship to different kinds of knowledge. For private or secret knowledge, those responsible for its care have obligations for arranging and restricting transmission to ensure community survival. While an insider/outsider positionality is often used to navigate this knowledge area, a binary approach is unhelpful. Taking a more relational reading of positionality, we s…
Tok stori as pedagogy: An approach to school leadership education in Solomon Islands
Tok stori is a Melanesian form of dialogical engagement. Although it has been generally associated with informal activities, this article points to the potential of tok stori as a pedagogical or teaching process. Set in a school leadership programme spread across the Solomon Islands, the discussion illustrates the value of approaching the education of school leaders through their own experiences and in a manner to which they are accustomed. Data …
Bringing research back home: Exploring Indigenous Melanesian tok stori as ontology
Indigenous knowledge is generally understood to be knowledge developed by a particular group in their specific environment over an extended period of time. In academia generally, bodies of knowledge of differing origins are not often understood. This article employs ontology as a ground for developing relational clarity in the academy by considering two oral traditions—talanoa (a Polynesian conversational form) as represented in research and Mela…
Pacific Academic Migrants: Re-shaping Spaces in Dynamic Times (Dispatch)
Winds, tides and currents: A strengths-based approach to resilience in urban Pacific education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Mainstream thought on Pacific education tends to highlight the relatively poor educational achievement and sub-optimal experiences of Pacific learners in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article explores further understandings of the links between Pacific learners, their environments, and relational learning experiences. The argument is supported by recent developments in Pacific education that progress a vision of education in terms more Indigenous to…
Full Issue
This special issue of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations visits one of the most polarizing policy debates in the US. In 2012, voters in Washington and Colorado passed initiatives that legalized the recreational use of marijuana. In fact, there were about 75,000 more votes cast in support of marijuana legalization in Colorado than were given to reelect President Obama. Yet according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, Demo…
Curating a connected community in virtual space: Solomon Islands Research Mentoring Tok Stori
This article examines the relationship between academic mentoring and tok stori, a Melanesian orality, in a digital environment. This relationship is significant where dispersal is an unintended consequence of the way development aid intersects with academic opportunities for scholars from less developed countries, and, consequently, country-focused academic communities remain undeveloped as education becomes individualised. This situation occurs…
Quality education, connection and wellbeing: Māori tertiary students’ accounts
A sometimes-neglected aim of education in the context of Māori, the tangata whenau (indigenous peoples) of Aotearoa New Zealand, is to build Māori students (tauira) as Māori, a process that supports them to navigate the academic world as well as enhancing their Māoritanga (Māori practices, beliefs, way of life). Notions of educational quality, therefore, involve wellbeing––the extent to which Māori tauira flourish as individuals and as collective…
Oceania oralities research and sustainable education: Exploring layers of engagement
Oralities research has a central place in supporting sustainable education in the Oceania region because it has the potential to reveal what education does and could mean to communities at the local level. In this way, oralities research can assist interventions that key into and make sense of local ontological positions. The Oceania Oralities Framework (OOF) is an analytical tool that supports links between Oceania oralities and research. It pro…
Looking for Hope in the Metacrisis: Learning From the Young and Indigenous
This article offers a response of hope to the metacrisis. Because of modernity’s philosophical premises, particularly Enlightenment concepts that separated humanity from nature, modern approaches to environmental challenges embrace a dualistic schism between culture and nature, fragmenting understanding through the compartmentalisation of knowledge. In our current situation, many feel bleak and too helpless to act. In response, we offer the exper…
Exploring Experiences of Māori Youth in Tertiary Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Many Indigenous Māori students journey to tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand, following diverse journeys with varying degrees of encouragement. However, on arrival, they can be faced with the prospect of living simultaneously in two worlds; te ao Māori (the Māori world), which privileges relational connection, and the world of formal education, which tends towards individualization. In this situation, rangatahi (Māori youth) deal with the…
Enhancing oralities methodology: Ontological framing and cultural principles in research
Fijian veitalanoa: An ontological exploration of Oceania oralities through silence
Silence is a seldom discussed but essential aspect of any Pacific Indigenous orality, communicating much. This article explores Fijian orality in the form of veitalanoa (a traditional orality or discursive form found in Fiji) by paying attention to silence. We discuss silence in Fijian veitalanoa through three themes drawn from an investigative veitalanoa which focus on people, space and time. In the article, ontological understanding of silence …
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Aotearoa (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)