The program was embedded as a key strategy within a broader Griffith University
Community Partnership Project entitled “Actioning change: A partnership with the
Samoan Community to promote educational opportunities for all”. A total of 22
“project” participants, including both Samoan and non-Samoan participants, worked in
four teams on specific projects responding to issues they identified as sources of, or
remedies to, community problems. These projects involved Samoan culture, youth
identity, parenting, and home-school partnerships. Participants integrated strategies of
action learning within a participatory process of inquiry involving a series of action
research cycles, as required by each project.