| | | Title | Teacher education at the crossroads which path should we take? | | Author | Puamau, Priscilla Qolisaya | | Subject | PRIDE Project (Fiji)
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Teachers|Training of|Oceania | | 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. | | Volume/Year | Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.28, no.1-2, 2006 | | Collation | 56 - 62; | | Notes | • | | | | Filesize | 88963 bytes | | File Format | PDF | | Number of pages | 7 |
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