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Serve and Return - Child Brain Development
Serve and return interactions shape the way a child's brain is built. This video resource offers a five-step process that aids in helping to lay a strong foundation for the brain development of your child
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Through their eyes: A Samoan perspective on child wellbeing
Emma Bennet-Dunlops thesis takes a look at Samoan Child wellbeing privileging the voices of "those that know'" - those being the parents and the children themselves.
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The Va‘atele Framework: Redefining and Transforming Pasifika Education
A Pasifika metaphor of the Va‘atele is offered as a framework for Pasifika learners’ success in order that schools and educators might understand how it is possible to both privilege and utilize students’ linguistic and cultural resources within curriculum learning at school. (Va‘atele is the Samoan name for the ocean voyaging double-hulled canoe of Pasifika peoples.)
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Building Brains - Child Brain Development
The “Building Brains” video is designed to increase understanding of brain development during the early years of life and the importance of interaction between your child and the caregiver/parent/adult in the earlier years.
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Zoom fono - COVID-19 and Child Wellbeing
The purpose of this fono was to talanoa with our communities on the impacts that the Covid-19 pandemic might be having on our younger children and discuss possible solutions. Topics included how Covid-19 affects children, the current research and evidence around vaccinating young children, the psychological effects that Covid-19 might be having on our kids and what caregivers, families and our schools can do to help our young children.
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Zoom fono - Protecting our children against COVID-19
This is a zoom recording of a zoom talanoa about protecting children against Covid-19. The key message by the speakers was that the best way to protect our children is by immunisation which requires everyone working together.
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New study aimed at getting the best start for Pasifika children
A group of Pacific experts across a range of disciplines focused on children's health and development are motivated to find appropriate strategies to combat the inequities and failings for Pacific children and their families.
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