Reshaping Samoan cultural values in a postcolonial education system

The book explores the role of Samoan values in teacher education. It examines the importance of Samoan values in the lives of student teachers while studying at the Faculty of Education at the National University of Samoa. The main focus is to examine whether these Samoan values are still adequately appropriate to control problems such as inadequate teacher-student interaction, student-student interaction that are continuously displayed by student teachers in and out of the classroom. Adopting an indigenous standpoint, this study argues that these problems are the result of inappropriate attention to traditional value systems that form the basis of everyday life of Samoans and the mismatch between home and educational expectations. Hence, examining the appropriate integration of traditional values in teacher education policies requires urgent attention.