Apia, Samoa – Friday 4th October 2024
In celebration of the completion of the latest General Issue of The Journal of Samoan Studies (JSS), the NUS – Centre for Samoan Studies hosted an Author Appreciation and Issue Launch on Wednesday 2nd October 2024.
Volume 14 of the JSS boasts 31 authors, ranging in rank and experience from Emeritus Professors to NUS Support Staff, collectively representing 7 international tertiary institutions. Twenty-one of the authors bring homegrown expertise to the collection as employees of NUS. Volume 14 features 10 Peer Reviewed Articles, 2 Research Reports and 1 Shorter Communication. Topics covered in this Issue include governance, indigenous leadership, archaeology, gender, education, business, aging, pedagogy and labor mobility. Volume 14, No 1 has now been launched in print (in a limited run) and online at https://journalofsamoanstudies.ws/2024/09/30/volume-14-2024/.
Newly appointed JSS Chief Editor Dr. Dionne Fonoti said that the event was necessary for several reasons. “JSS experienced a long lapse after COVID-19 and the retirement of former editor Professor Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea and this issue was in limbo for about a year. It is to the enormous credit of our wonderful authors and reviewers who patiently waited while we reorganized and rebuilt that this issue has come to fruition, so this was just a small token of thanks to show our appreciation and celebrate together,”
According to Fonoti, JSS is planning to publish two more issues this year, a two-part Special Issue titled “Samoa’s New Labour Trade”, guest edited by Professor Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea, Professor Kalissa Alexeyeff and Emeritus Professor Meleisea Malama Meleisea with Associate Editor Ellie Meleisea. Other Special Issues are also in the works, one entirely in the Samoan language guest edited by CSS Director Ta’iao Dr. Matavai Tautunu and another one deconstructing academic collaborations guest edited by Professor Jessica Hardin from the US.
Visit the JSS website for more information: https://journalofsamoanstudies.ws/
Volume 14, No. 1: Issue Contents
Peer Reviewed Articles
• United States Deportation Policy and its effects on Sāmoan Deportees, Dr. Timothy Fadgen
• Servant Leadership and Indigenous Sāmoan Organic Leadership, Epenesa Esera
• Corporal Punishment and Fa’aSāmoa: Road to Success, Tavita Lipine
• Humans of Apia: Building a Chronology of Pre-Colonial Human Activity in the Nu’u Mavae of Apia, Dionne Fonoti, Greg Jackmond and Brian Alofaituli
• A short account of the long history of chiefly female leadership in Sāmoa, Penelope Schoeffel and Malama Meleisea
• Le Faamati’e, Faae’etia, O Atina’ega ma le una’ia a avanoa mo tina ma tama’ita’i Sāmoa – Atoa ai ma o latou aia tatau faa-le-tulafono, Namulauulu Dr. Nu’ualofa Masoe Toga Potoi ma Fesola’i Aleni Sofara
• A Culturally appropriate Classroom Management Practice at the National University of Sāmoa, Pauline Nafo’i
• Understanding The Curriculum Process – Business Studies in Sāmoa, Faalogo Teleuli Mafoa
• Reflection-In-Action as a model for Reflection: A tertiary teacher’s account from Sāmoa, Sesilia Lauano
• Sāmoan Elders’ Understanding of Age, Ageing and Wellness , Falegau Melanie Lilomaiava Silulu, Professor Stephen Neville, Dr. Sara Napier, Professor Camille Nakhid, Emeritus professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Dr. Leulua’ali’i Laumua Tunufa’i, Dr. Fa’alava’au Juliet Boon
Research Reports
Results of a qualitative survey of Sāmoan workers in Australia’s Pacific labour mobility programme (PALM), Angela Anya Fatupaito, Dora Neru-Fa’aofo, Temukisa Satoa-Penisula, Loimata Poasa, Malotau Lafolafoga, Ielome Ah Tong, Fiu Leota Sanele Leota, Penelope Schoeffel and Kalissa Alexeyeff
Gender equity, equality and empowerment for Sāmoan women, Aruna Tuala, Felila Saufoi Amituanai and Raphael Semel
Shorter Communications
When the Land and Titles Court of Sāmoa exceeds its Jurisdictions: A critical review of LTC unlawful decision involving Sāmoan Customary Land Lease, Fesola’i Aleni Sofara.
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SOURCE – The National University of Samoa
