Weaving a "Hybrid Mat": Samoa meets the Solomons.

Whyte, Barbara

Weaving a "Hybrid Mat": Samoa meets the Solomons.

dc.contributor.author	Whyte, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-22T01:25:38Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-22T01:25:38Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description.abstract	Developed nations providing aid and educational support for less wealthy countries, have frequently imposed their own ideas and practices in a top-down manner. A recent collaborative aid project between the New Zealand and Solomon Islands Governments, has been more equitable by developing the project as a "Partnership". As a New Zealander involved with this project, I found participation in the Partnership activities to be rewarding and enlightening. The metaphor of a "hybrid mat" is used to weave together narratives from my pre-Partnership life and career events with narratives from my partnership experiences. Clandinin and Connelly's renowned concept of "stories" is utilised throughout to illustrate how perceptions of events can vary from person to person. "Cover" stories (the "official" narrative of events for outsiders); "secret" stories (narratives available only to insiders); and "re-storying" (placing a story within a context/place and negotiating the meanings of the story) are concepts used to illustrate the complexity and multiple explanations and understandings that come from narratives. It is through "re-storying" the combined "cover" and "secret" stories that a third space of understanding is revealed. This article traces the process and product of understanding and re-storying a particular "hybrid mat" for the writer.	en_NZ
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Whyte, B. (2011). Weaving a "Hybrid Mat": Samoa meets the Solomons. Waikato Journal of Education, 16(2), 85-94.	en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn	1173-6135
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6131
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Faculty of Education, University of Waikato	en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOf	Waikato Journal of Education	en_NZ
dc.relation.uri	http://edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=8	en_NZ
dc.rights	© 2011 Waikato Journal of Education. It is posted here by permission for personal use.	en_NZ
dc.subject	narrative	en_NZ
dc.subject	Solomon Islands	en_NZ
dc.subject	partnership	en_NZ
dc.subject	staff development	en_NZ
dc.subject	relationally	en_NZ
dc.title	Weaving a "Hybrid Mat": Samoa meets the Solomons.	en_NZ
dc.type	Journal Article	en_NZ
pubs.begin-page	85	en_NZ
pubs.elements-id	36954
pubs.end-page	94	en_NZ
pubs.issue	2	en_NZ
pubs.volume	16	en_NZ