COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse PracticesConclusionUSP remains a colonial institution, and is likely to remain the dominant tertiary education institution in the region.To ensure it meets the needs of local communities, it is important to actively promote, disseminate and valuePacific epistemologies rather than relying on Western theories and models.Opening up the university to make resources more readily available is important in a small community likeTokelau. All resources, regardless of ownership and rules of access, need to be accessible. Exclusionarypolicies that make university resources available only to students simply do not make sense in a smallcommunity. The university campus needs to be fully integrated into the community with an open door policy. InTokelau, this will ensure that people can achieve their educational aspirations.ReferencesCrocombe, R. (2001). The South Pacific. Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific.Denoon, D., Mein-Smith, P. & Wyndham, M. (2000). A history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Oxford:Blackwell.Freire, P. (1970). The pedagogy of the oppressed. London: Penguin.Hau’ofa, E. (2008). We are the ocean. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.Huffer, E. & Qalo, R. (2005). Have we been thinking upside-down? The contemporary emergence of Pacifictheoretical thought. The Contemporary Pacific, 16 (1), 87–116.Huntsman, J. & Hooper, A. (1996). Tokelau: A historical ethnography. Auckland: Auckland University Press.Luteru, P.H. (1991). The impact of foreign aid on Pacific mores, ideas, and traditions. In D.R. Jones, V.L. Meek &J. Weeks (Eds.), Explorations in higher education: A South Pacific critique (pp. 67 – 94). Melbourne: Centre forthe Study of Higher Education.Teasdale, B. (2005). The big picture: International perspectives on education for planners. In P. Puamau & B.Teasdale (Eds.), Educational planning in the Pacific: Principles and guidelines (pp.1-14). Suva, Fiji: USP.Teasdale, B. & Puamau, P. (2005). Introduction. In P. Puamau & B. Teasdale (Eds.), Educational planning in thePacific: Principles and guidelines (pp. v-xi). Suva, Fiji: USP.304