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- Reclaiming an education: culture, teaching and learning
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This paper provides an overview of the role of culture in education and the importance of culture within learning. The author defines education and then defines culture, speaking particularly within the context of experiences of culture and learning within Pacific Islands groups. She describes how Pacific Islands people have had, and continue to operate within a dual learning setting, moving between their home cultures and those of the school and formal education. The differences in emphasis between indigenous education and European education are discussed, with the author highlighting that formal education continues to emphasise individual intellectual development above all other forms of development. She then discusses the conceptual model used to base the practice of schooling within the European system. The influence of western pedagogy on the educational development in the Pacific Islands is discussed. The author argues that education policy in the Pacific Islands is greatly influenced by the need to modernise, with the importation of Western educational structures and systems, undermining the influence of indigenous culture. This paper also discusses the role of teachers as mediators.
This paper provides an overview of the role of culture in education and the importance of culture within learning. The ... Show Full Abstract
Authors: Thaman, Konai Helu
Conference name: National Symposium on Pacific Islands Learning 1996
Date: 1996
Geographic subjects: Oceania; New Zealand
Resource type: Conference
Subjects: Indigenous people; Culture; Teaching and learning;
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- Proceedings report: national symposium 1996: Pacific Islands learning: the answers are within us
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The National Symposium on Pacific Islands Learning was an initiative which identified the Education and Training Support Agency (ETSA) as a leading and innovative contributor within the area of Pacific Islands education in New Zealand. The collection of papers, workshops and panel presentations raised central issues concerning Pacific Islands education. This proceedings report contains sixteen papers, it includes some workshop presentations, as well as one panellist presentation. The proceedings contain the following papers: Reclaiming an education: culture, teaching and learning / Konai Helu Thaman; Pacific Island Polynesian attitudes to child training and discipline in New Zealand: some policy implications for social welfare and education / Malama Meleisea; Educational risk: who needs to know? / Judith Aitken; Leading learning to promote Pacific Islands students achievements / Iosua Esera; Economic empowerment for Pacific Islands women: examining the challenges of being part of a Pacific Islands Project / Nina Arron and Kinsie Hope; O Ai E A'oga? Ae O Ai 'Ea Le Faia'ogo?: who is the learner - who is the teacher? / Faafua Leavasa-Tautolo and Apulu Leemo Ah Sam; A possible missing factor?: the role of Pacific Islands languages in the education of pacific Islands children in New Zealand / Galumalemana A.L. Hunkin-Tuiletufuga; Teacher education: implications for Pacific students and their communities / D. Mara, T. Tuhipa, T. Falesima and A. Greenwood; Inservice training in the Cook Islands: Cook Islands Teacher Development Project (Special Education) / B. Lex McDonald and Mark Sweeney; Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and the National Qualifications Framework: implications for Pacific Islands people / Mika Kelekolio; Ko E Ako 'A E Kakai Pasifika: education for Pacific Islands people / Lesieli Tongati'o; Pacific Islands learners - cultures apart?: Pacific Islands adult learning characteristics: some classroom observations of adult Pacific Islands learners by tutors at a New Zealand private training establishment / Mino Cleverley; Fiji: the need for traditional perspectives in mathematics education / Sala Bakalevu; Is workplace assessment an open door for Pacific Islands people to access national qualifications? / Tony Gibbs and Stephanie Doyle; 'Voices from the classroom' / Jim Peters; University-industry cooperation for education and training of civil engineers in Papua New Guinea / Richard C. Baker.
The National Symposium on Pacific Islands Learning was an initiative which identified the Education and Training Support ... Show Full Abstract
Conference name: National Symposium on Pacific Islands Learning 1996
Corporate authors: Education and Training Support Agency (New Zealand) (ETSA)
Date: 1996
Geographic subjects: Oceania; New Zealand
Resource type: Conference
Subjects: Indigenous people; Culture; Teaching and learning;
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