Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A Review of the Teaching of English Language in the South Pacific
Author: The Teaching of English in the South Pacific
Author: George Alfred PittmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Pacific Languages in Education
Author: France MuglerPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820201231
Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"This collection of articles and interviews explores policy, practice and attitudes relating to the use of Pacific languages in education systems of most Pacific Island countries and territories, from pre-school to tertiary level. It records history ; it deals with current attitudes and prejudices ; and it focuses attention on perceived problems with the medium of education in many parts of the region."--Back cover
Conference on English Language Teaching in the South Pacific in the 80s, May 4-8, 1981
Author: Relationality and Learning in Oceania
Author: Seu'ula Johansson-FuaPublisher: Comparative and International
ISBN: 9789004425293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
"This multi-authored volume draws on the collective experiences of a team of researcher-practitioners, from three Oceanic universities, in an aid-funded intervention program for enhancing literacy learning in Pacific Islands primary education schools. The interventions explored here-in Solomon Islands and Tonga-were implemented via a four-year collaboration which adopted a design-based research approach to bringing about sustainable improvements in teacher and student learning, and in the delivery and evaluation of educational aid. This approach demanded that learning from the context of practice should be determining of both content and process; that all involved in the interventions should see themselves as learners. Essential to the trusting and respectful relationships required for this approach was the program's acknowledgement of relationality as central to indigenous Oceanic societies, and of education as a relational activity. Relationality and Learning in Oceania: Contextualizing Education for Development addresses debates current in both comparative education and international aid. Argued strongly is that relational research-practice approaches (south-south, south-north) which center the importance of context and culture, and the significance of indigenous epistemologies, are required to strengthen education within the post-colonial relational space of Oceania, and to inform the various agencies and actors involved in 'education for development' in Oceania and globally. Maintained is that the development of education structures and processes within the contexts explored through the chapters comprising this volume, continues to be a negotiation between the complexity of historically developed local 'traditions' and understandings and the 'global' imperatives shaped by dominant development discourses"--
Pacific Studies : a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Pacific-its Islands and Adjacent Countries
Author: South Pacific Islands Communication
Author: Evangelia PapoutsakiPublisher: AMIC
ISBN: 9814136085
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Bringing together scholarly contributions on communications issues across the South Pacific islands, this work aims to create a better understanding of what affects information flow and communication in smaller nations and how these impact on national development, governance and the creation of more cohesive societies.
South Pacific Englishes
Author: Carolin BiewerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027268959
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been described linguistically. The book describes the spread of English, its current status and use in the three island states and compares the most frequent and salient morphosyntactic features to corresponding structures in Asian and African Englishes and the Oceanic substrate languages. As part of a larger theoretical discussion on the multiple factors that determine the evolution and dynamics of L2 varieties in general, Mufwene’s feature pool model is extended to a new model that integrates cognitive aspects of language acquisition and use, typological aspects of the languages/varieties involved and socio-cultural motivations of language use. The book also examines the role of New Zealand English as a potential epicentre in the South Pacific and considers ethical and methodological issues of linguistic field research.
Pacific Studies
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
International Handbook on Education Development in the Asia-Pacific
Author: Wing On LeePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981196887X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 2588
Book Description
The Springer International Handbook of Educational Development in Asia Pacific breaks new ground with a comprehensive, fine-grained and diverse perspective on research and education development throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 13 sections and 127 chapters, the Handbook delves into a wide spectrum of contemporary topics including educational equity and quality, language education, learning and human development, workplace learning, teacher education and professionalization, higher education organisations, citizenship and moral education, and high performing education systems. The Handbook is grounded in specific Asia Pacific contexts and scholarly traditions, using unique country-specific narratives, for example, Vietnam and Melanesia, and socio-cultural investigations through lenses such as language identity or colonisation, while offering parallel academic discourse and analyses framed by broader policy commentary from around the world.