Position

Lecturer

Teaching areas

Vagahau Niue language

Biography

Ioane Aleke Fa’avae hails from the village of Mutalau, Niue. He has 28 years of experience and services toward Niue language revitalization, arts, and culture.

Why I love MIT

MIT is central and can be easily accessed. It has a strong connection to the Pacific communities, especially where it is geographically located.

Publications

• Aleke Fa’avae, I. (2014). Uluvehi Pūpūo Tapuina: sacred reef passage of Uluvehi, Uluvehi Press.
• Aleke Fa'avae, I. (2018). Lavahi Mau e tau Taoga ma e Atuhau. Treasure our taoga for future generations. Pacific Collection Access Programme, Auckland War Memorial Museum.
• Aleke Fa'avae, I. (2020). Veveteaga he Moki. Unitec Reseach Symposium Pacific, Te Puna, Yellow Lecture Theatre, Mt Albert Campus.
• Bentley-Gray, D., Aleke Fa'avae, I., & Taumoepeau, V. (2021). The effects of migration on migrants, diaspora communities in NZ and on the Pacific Island communities of Samoa, Niue and Tonga. "Islands and Migration" Research Symposium (online), SICRI & Centre for Global Migrations - University of Otago.
• Seve-Williams, N., & Aleke Fa'avae, I. (2020). The two heavens of tufuga: Creative Expressions of tufuga Niue. Auckland, New Zealand, Moana Oceania (Vol. Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi & Lagi Maama).

Scholarly activities

• Reviewer of vagahau Niue language curriculum of Centre of Pacific Languages.
• Reviewer of NZQA Unit Standards for vagahau Niue Language
• Research Assistant for Endangered Pacific Languages Research at the University of Auckland.

Research interests

• Language revitalization and acquisition
• Niue conceptual knowledge
• Indigenous knowledge
• Niue history and culture.

Awards and grants

• Ministry of Pacific Peoples 2021 vagahau Niue Language Champion Honours (Adult male)
• Creative NZ Pacific Heritage Arts Award (2014)
• The University of Auckland Blues Award (Arts & Cultural) (2011)
• The University of Auckland Blues Award (Arts & Cultural) (2010).

Memberships and affiliations

• MIT Pacific & Te Reo Languages Programme Committee member
• Unitec Pacific Research Fono member
• Unitec Academic Approval Committee member
• Unitec Research Pasifika Scholarships Advisor
• Pacific Dance NZ Board member
• Assessor for Creative NZ
• Niue Academic Network
• Niue Language Roots
• MoE Subject Expert Group for vagahau Niue for the development of Achievement Standards & Assessment Resources member
• MoE Expert Group in vagahau Niue language member
• Life member of AUPISA Auckland University Pacific Islands Students Association.

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