This book examines the achievement of Pacific Islands (Pasifika) students in New Zealand to find a more effective explanation for the failure of schools to address the students underperformance and to understand the overall performance of ethnic minority students in education. It is proposed that students success in education is conditional upon having their identifying process, that is, the students construction of their own identity, valued by the school. Using the mediated dialogue methodology which allows for students and teachers to examine the accuracy of the perceptions that...