TY  - GEN
T1  - Relationality and learning in Oceania : contextualizing education for development
T2  - Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices Ser.
A2  - Johansson-Fua, Seuʻula Falelalava, 1974-
LA  - English
PP  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill Sense
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1143645275
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 172
CN  - LC97.S65 R45 2020
SN  - 9789004425316
SN  - 9004425314
SN  - 9789004425293
SN  - 9789004425309
KW  - Education, Primary : Solomon Islands.
KW  - Education, Primary : Tonga.
KW  - Education : Aims and objectives : Solomon Islands.
KW  - Education : Aims and objectives : Tonga.
KW  - Indigenous peoples : Education : Solomon Islands.
KW  - Indigenous peoples : Education : Tonga.
KW  - EDUCATION / Higher
KW  - Education : Aims and objectives
KW  - Education, Primary
KW  - Indigenous peoples : Education
KW  - Solomon Islands
KW  - Tonga
KW  - Society & social sciences
KW  - Higher & further education, tertiary education
ER  -