Pacific indigenous research methodologies, protocols and practices have been decolonised and explained in Linda Smith’s book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and indigenous Peoples.
But the foundation stone was laid down in the researches of J.W Davidson, HE Maude, KR Howe, David Routledge, Doug Munro and Brij V Lal etc, the discourse of Pacific history writing has shown a huge transition. This transition was seen from the works of WP Morell’s Britain in the Pacific Islands and Deryck Scarr’s Fragments of Empire although seeing the Pacific from European eyes. After World War II, the dominance of Europe in historiography disintegrated to new centres of gravity in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. So many educational researches do not acknowledge or give value to Pacific indigenous knowledge systems, learning theories and pedagogies. Pacific indigenous education has been kept on the margin for ages. So, this article provides an insight into these indigenous frameworks and especially concentrates on the Kakala research framework and purports to scrutinise the challenges to Pacific research. My article titled “Talanoa, a way of life” published in The Fiji Times last month urged me to explore other varied Pacific research frameworks.
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