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TitleOpen and flexible learning for whom? : rethinking distance education
AuthorThaman, Konaiholeva Helu
SubjectDistance education|Cross-cultural studies|Oceania
Distance education|Social aspects|Oceania
AbstractDistance education is put under the microscope in this first two article. Thaman examines how it has affected equity and access in the University of the South Pacific region and, while acknowledging the well-known arguments for distance education, she urges Pacific Island educators to resist the lure of standardised, homogenised, packaged education, dominated by foreign educational philosophies. Instead, distance education offered by USP should be culturally inclusive, so that it serves to develop, rather than marginalise, Pacific cultures.
Volume/YearDirections: Journal of Educational Studies no.44, vol.23, no.1, 2001
Collationp. 3-22 ;
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