Exploring the Bias

Exploring the Bias
Author: Elspeth Page
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781849290074

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Focusing on seven case studies of secondary schools in India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Samoa, Seychelles, and Trinidad & Tobago, this book analyses whether schools perpetuate gender stereotypes and investigates how this can be prevented. It provides insights and recommendations useful for policy-makers and educators worldwide.

The Warm Winds of Change

The Warm Winds of Change
Author: Cluny Macpherson
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1775582140

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Examining a variety of intriguing issues, this sociological study analyzes the impact global culture has had on the flora and fauna, people, economies, languages, and cultures of the Pacific for many centuries. The survey draws on findings from a 40-year research partnership, illustrating the effects of globalization from the perspective of a typical Samoan village and documenting the country's shift from baskets to buckets, from religious authority to a questioning democracy, and from in-kind work to a cash economy. Delving into questions such as When do Pacific emigrants stop sending money to their home village? Do villagers stop giving away fish when they get a refrigerator? and How do cell phones change villages? this argument contends that contemporary changes are presenting a more profound challenge to Samoan social institutions and society than at any other time in the past. Comprehensive and accessible, this guide is essential for those interested in the way global forces are shaping change in small Pacific nations.

Social Policies in Samoa

Social Policies in Samoa
Author: Desmond U. Amosa
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849290822

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Samoa is a role model in the Pacific region for its economic and social achievements. This in-depth study traces the history of government policy and examines the fundamentals underpinning the country's progress. It also examines how the fa'a Samoa, the culture, enabled the country to build resilience after crises in the 1990s.

Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
Author: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429998627

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Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational researchers who are looking for possibilities beyond the limits of liberal democratic schooling. Featuring original chapters by authors at the forefront of theorizing, practice, research, and activism, this volume helps define and imagine the exciting interstices between Indigenous and decolonizing studies and education. Each chapter forwards Indigenous principles - such as Land as literacy and water as life - that are grounded in place-specific efforts of creating Indigenous universities and schools, community organizing and social movements, trans and Two Spirit practices, refusals of state policies, and land-based and water-based pedagogies.

Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific

Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific
Author: Claudia Tazreiter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-02-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137465964

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This book explores the experiences of temporary migrants in the Asia-Pacific region. It develops the original concept of 'fluid security' to analyse the way in which persons carry a set of tools, strategies and attitudes across spatial, temporal and imagined borders. This concept applies a mobilities lens to human security in order to take into account the aspirations and needs of mobile populations appropriate for a globalising world. The book brings to light the diverse experiences of mobility and the multiple vulnerabilities experienced by individuals that intersect with, and sometimes challenge, national security domains. The authors analyse mobility patterns that are diversifying at a rate far outstripping the capacity of governments to adapt to the human security needs of mobile populations. While the idea of global citizenship may be held up as an ideal through which access to rights is not an arbitrary lottery, it remains far from a reality for the majority of migrants. They are excluded from the migratory flows global elites engage in almost at will. This important book advances the idea that mobile individuals can generate their own security when they have agency and the ability to plan; that experiences of security are not necessarily tied to permanence; that mobile populations benefit from policies that support transnational life; and that fluid security is enhanced when individuals are able to carry a bundle of rights with them.

Multi-country Programme Document 2008-2012

Multi-country Programme Document 2008-2012
Author: United Nations Development Programme. Executive Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2007
Genre: Economic assistance
ISBN:

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Women and the Teaching Profession

Women and the Teaching Profession
Author: Fatimah Kelleher
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1849290725

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Examines how the teacher feminisation debate applies in developing countries. Drawing on the experiences of Dominica, Lesotho, Samoa, Sri Lanka and India, it provides a strong analytical understanding of the role of female teachers in the expansion of education systems, and the surrounding gender equality issues.