Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji: mobilising global and local values
| Autor: | Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta, Ledua Waqailiti, Michael W Crossley, Rosiana Lagi, Simon McGrath, Konai Helu Thaman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
Pacific values and methodologies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Neoliberalism 050301 education quality education Public administration Education Politics teachers and teaching General partnership 0502 economics and business Performativity Field research education policy transfer Small Island developing s (SIDS) Education policy Sociology 050207 economics International development 0503 education research partnerships Qualitative research media_common |
| Zdroj: | Crossley, M, Koya Vaka'uta, C F, Lagi, R, McGrath, S, Thaman, K H & Waqailiti, L 2017, ' Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji: mobilising global and local values ', Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 872-890 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1338938 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03057925.2017.1338938 |
| Popis: | This article reports on the findings of original field research carried out in the small island developing state of Fiji, in the South Pacific. A North-South research partnership was built upon previous collaboration between team members and, in so doing, pioneered the blending of Pacific and Western research approaches sensitive to a postcolonial positioning. The study interrogates practitioner perspectives on: the nature and quality of teachers and teaching in Fiji; the challenges of teachers’ work and lives; priorities for successful qualitative reform; and theoretical implications for the processes of education policy transfer and qualitative improvement. The analysis draws upon work on the politics of aid and international development, revealing tensions between existing learner-centred policy frameworks and emergent neoliberal and performativity oriented initiatives influenced by international surveys of student achievement, related league tables and the experience of the regional reference societies of Australia, New Zealand and India. |
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