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From Policy to Practice: Reflections on working across cultural borders in tertiary education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Fran Richardson  and
Linda Jones
Fran Richardson
Affiliation:
School of Health Sciences, Wellington Campus, Massey University
Linda Jones*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Wellington Campus, Massey University
*
School of Psychology, Wellington Campus, Massey University, New Zealand. E-mail: L.M.Jones@massey.ac.nz
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Abstract

This paper describes the processes and challenges presented when Pākehā lecturers supervised a research project undertaken by Māori and Pacific nursing students in a New Zealand Bachelor of Nursing programme. It reflects on the reality of translating institutional policies from paper to practice and is situated in the framework of the Treaty of Waitangi and cultural safety. Cultural safety is a nursing concept that focuses on power in health-care relationships. People involved in the project experienced degrees of vulnerability in different cultural contexts, in terms of cultural identity, personal, professional and cultural values and beliefs, nursing and psychology knowledge and academic and institutional policies and practices. Culture is used in a broad sense and not confined to ethnicity. Various issues encountered during the project are identified, and examples of difficult experiences discussed. The paper concludes that working across broad cultural borders requires working with the complexities of multiple realities and discourses.

Type
Research Article
Information
South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 15: Special Issue: The Development of Psychology in Oceania: Theory, Research & Practice , 2004 , pp. 54 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea and Massey University, New Zealand/Aotearoa 2004

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