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Title: Heart and mind : the liminality of the learner in relation to education in the new millennium

Author: Mel, Michael A.
Subject:  Emotional problems of children|Periodicals
 Learning, Psychology of|Papua New Guinea
 Educational anthropology|Papua New Guinea
 Cognition
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.24, no.1, 2002
Collation: p. 38-46 ;

Abstract: Classrooms in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have supported the view that since all human beings have a head (intelligence) each person should be able, with precision, (logically) to acquire knowledge. Logic has been equated with intelligence. Areas of knowledge that were built on logic have been given significance in the curriculum, while those that seemingly have little to do with logic have been pushed aside. The enterprise of education – processes of knowledge acquisition and creation – needs to move beyond the confines of logic as being equivalent to intelligence. To claim that all logic is intelligence is at best illogical and at worst irrational. There is a need to recognise that the human condition does not learn and live on logic alone. Emotions, or matters of the heart, have long been seen as the enemy of logic, or effective thinking. The two – logic and emotions – have been separated as entities. In my paper I propose that there is a need for a major shift away and beyond this mind set. If education in PNG and around the world is about integral human development and is based on knowledge from within our own cultures as much as from without, then the need to go beyond logic and sensibilities as separate entities or domains of knowledge is paramount.

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Title: Helping extension students to read history as initiation into a discourse community

Author: Deverell, Gweneth
Subject:  The University of the South Pacific|Extension Services
 Reading comprehension|Study and teaching
 Textbooks|Readability
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.28, vol.15, no.1, 1993
Collation: p. 19-37 ;

Abstract: Many students have difficulty in comprehending academic text, especially in the first two years of tertiary study. This paper identifies the reading skills a student would need to fulfil the expectations of lecturers in the USP’s foundation extension course, Introduction to Pacific History. Reasons for difficulties students face in understanding passages in the course Reader are suggested and recommendations are made about how course writers, tutors and teachers, in history and in other disciplines, could assist students to overcome these difficulties. Such assistance with reading history research articles, for example, is viewed as part of the process of initiating students into the discourse community of the academic discipline. As such it is seen as the responsibility of the subject lecturer and tutor. Nevertheless, it is recognised that English teachers still have an important role to play if they are familiar with the genre of the discipline and understand its communicative purpose.

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Title: Higher education and human resource development in the Pacific

Author: Baba, Tupeni L.
Subject:  The University of the South Pacific|School of Education
 Science teachers|Training of|Oceania
 Education, Higher|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.37, vol.19, no.2, 1997
Collation: p. 3-23 ;

Abstract: Baba, in his paper, traces the development of higher education in the South Pacific, with particular reference to teacher education, and examines some of the thinking which has guided developments in higher education and teacher education in the region.

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Title: How good a predictor is Fiji junior certificate examination?

Author: Elley, Warwick B., Kishor, Nand
Subject:  Achievement tests|Fiji
 Educational tests and measurements|Fiji
 Examinations|Fiji
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.6, 1981
Collation: p. 38-42 ;

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Title: How young people can create their own jobs

Author: Briscoe, Robert
Subject:  Producer cooperatives|Oceania
 Cooperative societies|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.11, no.2, 1989
Collation: p. 3-11 ;

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Title: Human resource development and science education in the Pacific : where are we heading?

Author: Muralidhar, Srinivasiah
Subject:  Science|Study and teaching|Oceania
 Science teachers|Training of|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.37, vol.19, no.2, 1997
Collation: p. 45-59 ;

Abstract: The author starts by outlining some of the key issues that have shaped and continue to influence school science globally, with particular reference to the science curriculum debate (science for the citizen vs science for the specialist), the question of relevance, and the problems of curriculum change. He then looks at some of the developments in the Pacific region in relation to curriculum reform in science education, science teacher education and professional development.

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Title: Human rights law in a multicultural regional university: a reflective experience in pedagogy

Author: Olowu, Dejo
Subject:  Education|Study and teaching
 Human rights|Study and teaching|Fiji
 Human rights|Law and legislation|Oceania
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.26, no.2, 2004
Collation: 13-26;

Abstract: This paper is based on the author.s experiences as a teacher of human rights law at the University of the South Pacific. The author emphasises the need to design a learning environment that allows students to share experiences, and thereby realise that they personally have a potential role in transforming or maintaining the human rights environment in their countries. The need to reduce compartmentalization in curricula, and to include human rights throughout a variety of courses is also discussed.

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