About the Event
Date: January 22, 2025
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Education Building (Faculty and Staff Lounge Room 3050)
In this presentation, visiting scholar and USask alumnus Dr. Sanga will offer an agenda for living well together. In Polynesian peoples' thought traditions, mana is the sum-total of wholesomeness; its authority is moral and embraces the dignity of persons and peoples. This presentation offers considerations for straddling and embracing the tensions in efforts of Indigenization and internationalisation in institutional contexts. Approached from the perspective of a Mana economy, complex higher education tensions are relationally negotiated from moral obligations and courageous encounters.
*This visit is funded by the John Ranton McIntosh Visiting Scholar Fund in the College of Education
Dr. Kabini Sanga Bio
is an associate professor with the School of Education at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in Educational Administration from the University of Saskatchewan, a MEd from the University of Regina and a BA from the University of South Pacific, Fiji. Prior to joining Victoria University of Wellington in 2000, Kabini was the former Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education, now the Solomon Islands National University; a former Head of the SICHE School of Education; a former Chief Education Officer-Director of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Education; a former Principal of Su'u National Secondary School (Solomon Islands); and a former high school teacher. Kabini is also a former Director of the Institute of Education (IOE) of the University of the South Pacific. For a combined equivalent of two and half decades, he has served on the governing councils of the University of the South Pacific, Whitireia Polytech and WelTec in New Zealand. Kabini is a Pacific regional educator, mentor and, in addition to his teaching, research and supervision duties at VUW, he is a consultant to donor agencies, Pacific Islands governments and institutions.