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Cooper, Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-2941
Oldehaver, Jacinta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9375-499X
Hedges, Helen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2436-9307
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Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Auckland
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Article History
Received: 23 January 2024
Accepted: 3 August 2024
First Online: 15 August 2024
Declarations
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: As co-authors and colleagues, we share a commitment to Pacific learner success in Aotearoa New Zealand’s (NZ’s) education system. We begin with our positionality to acknowledge the worldviews that inform our collective work. Dr Maria Cooper is a NZ-born and raised Samoan-European with ancestral ties through her mother to the village of Lufilufi, Upolu, Samoa and through her father to the village of Dovalovo, Slovakia. Dr Jacinta Oldehaver is a second-generation NZ born and raised Samoan-Tongan-German. She can trace her ancestry to Upolu, Samoa through her mother’s village of Fasito’o Uta. Her father is Tongan-German and born and raised in Samoa. Dr Helen Hedges is NZ-born with English, Scottish and Irish heritages. She has a commitment to understanding equity in action.
: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest. She also confirms the material has not been published elsewhere, and the manuscript is not currently under consideration with any other publisher.
