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Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006

Title: The introduction to Pacific education series book 1 educational planning in the Pacific: principles and guidelines

Author: Teasdale, G. R., Puamau, Priscilla Qolisaya
Subject:  PRIDE Project (Fiji)
 Educational planning|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 1 - 6;

Abstract: This introduction gives background information about the Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education (PRIDE) Project and the regional workshop on educational planning that was held in September 2004 in Fiji.

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Title: The big picture international perspectives on education for planners

Author: Teasdale, G. R.
Subject:  Educational change|Pacific Area
 PRIDE Project (Fiji)
 Educational planning|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 7 -19;

Abstract: Chapter 1 of Pacific Education Series Book 1: Educational Planning in the Pacific: principles and guidelines, edited by Priscilla Puamau and G.R. (Bob) Teasdale. This chapter seeks to reconceptualise the planning and implementation of education in the Pacific by reviewing how people are thinking about education globally. What are the new ideas, the new trends, and how are they changing the ways that schooling is taking place in our global world? What are the implications of these different ways of thinking for the planning and reform of education in the Pacific? And for the work of the Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education (PRIDE) Project?

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Title: Principles and processes of educational planning in the Pacific

Author: Puamau, Priscilla Qolisaya
Subject:  Educational leadership|Oceania
 Educational planning|Oceania
 PRIDE Project (Fiji)
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 20 - 38;

Abstract: Chapter 3 of Pacific Education Series Book 1: Educational Planning in the Pacific: principles and guidelines, edited by Priscilla Puamau and G.R. (Bob) Teasdale. This chapter provides an analysis of the educational principles and processes articulated by the 31 key educational planners and data managers who attended the first Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education (PRIDE) regional workshop on educational planning held on 2004 in Fiji. Strongly embedded in the PRIDE Project is the notion of ownership, with the conviction that Ministers for Education and the people of their countries ought to decide for themselves what their priorities and key educational activities should be. The 'workshop' concept demonstrated the confidence PRIDE has in the deep insights and vast experience that the participants brought to the workshop. In fact, the workshop privileged their voices by hearing and recording their 'inside' expertise, knowledge and values, so that a Pacific body of knowledge and wisdom could be developed on educational strategic planning.

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Title: Educational planning in the Pacific a way forward

Author: Fua, Seu'ula Falelalava J.
Subject:  Educational leadership
 PRIDE Project (Fiji)
 Educational planning|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 39 - 55;

Abstract: Chapter 9 of Pacific Education Series Book 1: Educational Planning in the Pacific: principles and guidelines, edited by Priscilla Puamau and G.R. (Bob) Teasdale. As critical friend of the Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of Basic Education (PRIDE) regional workshop on educational planning held in 2004 in Fiji, the author discusses some of the important issues that arose in the course of the workshop and suggests that research into leadership, administration, organisations and planning will help in making decisions for the future.

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Title: Teacher education at the crossroads which path should we take?

Author: Puamau, Priscilla Qolisaya
Subject:  PRIDE Project (Fiji)
 Teacher educators|Training of
 Teachers|Training of|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 56 - 62;

Abstract: Chapter 1 of Pacific Education Series Book 3: Pacific voices: Teacher education on the move, edited by Priscilla Puamau. In this chapter, the author briefly discusses ten issues and challenges facing teacher education in the Pacific. The ideas are culled from her cumulative experience of over two decades of working in teacher education and in education in general in the Pacific region. The important question to ask is: Which path should Pacific countries take in their quest to have the best of both worlds? On the one hand is offered the possibility of an educational system and teacher education models that are solidly grounded and rooted in best traditional or indigenous cultural practices and epistemologies. On the other hand are ranged the best of the offerings of the west and the global world. Or perhaps, rather than 'either . . . or', we need to strive for some kind of blending or grafting of the best that each has to offer, to produce a system uniquely crafted to our particular needs and situations. In this way, and perhaps only in this way, can we make our education systems our own.

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Title: Teacher education for new times reconceptualising pedagogy and learning in the Pacific

Author: Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi
Subject:  Teachers|Training of|Oceania
 Teacher education|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 63 - 91;

Abstract: Chapter 15 of Pacific Education Series Book 3: Pacific voices: Teacher education on the move, edited by Priscilla Puamau. The author was critical friend at the regional workshop co-organised by Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education (PRIDE) held in Samoa in 2005. Teacher educators and policy makers from across the Pacific participated and, in this chapter, the author discusses their presentations and the issues that were discussed at the workshop.

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Title: A literate and numerate society introduction

Author: Puamau, Priscilla Qolisaya
Subject:  Learning|Oceania
 Numeracy|Oceania
 Literacy|Oceania
 PRIDE Project (Fiji)
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 92 - 97;

Abstract: The introduction to Pacific Education Series Book 4: The basics of learning; literacy and numeracy in the Pacific, edited by Priscilla Puamau and Frances Pene. In this introduction to the book, the author discusses what the terms literacy and numeracy mean today, and describes the background to the Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of Basic Education (PRIDE) Project and the regional workshop on literacy and numeracy that was held in Tonga in May, 2006.

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Title: Eutia moa mai nanoa: navigating currents of literacy and numeracy in the Pacific

Author: Teaero, Teweiariki
Subject:  PRIDE Project (Fiji)
 Literacy|Oceania
 Numeracy|Oceania
 Literacy|Pacific Area
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006
Collation: 98-120;

Abstract: This article is based on Chapter 13 of Pacific Education Series Book 4: The basics of learning; literacy and numeracy in the Pacific, edited by Priscilla Puamau and Frances Pene. The author was critical friend at the regional workshop co-organised by Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education (PRIDE) held in Tonga in 2006. It was attended by senior curriculum and teacher professional development officers in the fields of literacy and mathematics at the primary level from 15 Pacific countries. In this chapter, the author discusses their presentations and the issues that were discussed at the workshop.

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