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PNG Education - Policy & Services - Papua New Guinea

| Globalization of Universal Primary Education Policy | Colonialism:  policy influences & devolution problems | Teacher education | Conditions of Teaching & Learning: Study on the Context of Book Provision |

Education Policy Development and Globalisation

• Globalisation of Education Policies:  Extent Of External Influences On Contemporary Universal Primary Education Policies In Papua New Guinea exerpts from Thomas Webster - book - University of Papua New Guinea Press, July 2000.  1SBN:  9980-084-094-3

Educational Policy Development and Problems of Devolution in PNG Education

• Problems with Devolution of PNG Education
  book by Dr. Gabriel Kulwaum
  Dr. Kulwaum maintains "... that post-independence PNG educational politics have mostly revolved around the debates about how power should be shared between different levels of government and with one bureaucracy." ... and "...the development of PNG's education system ... annot be discussed adequately outside the context of the colonial legacy that persists in PNG. The concept of devolution is rooted within the controversies that surround attempts to resolve .... difficult questions."
  • Chapter 1 Introduction / the Background / the Research / the Arguments
  • Chapter 2 PNG:  Colonialism and Development
  • Chapter 3 Devolution And Administrative Reforms In PNG
  • Chapter 4 Research Methodology:  Concept of Devolution in Education Part 1 & 2
  • Chapter 5 Problems of reform and the culture of bureaucracy in PNG
  • Chapter 6 Unity, diversity and the problems of reform in PNG

Teacher Education - Papua New Guinea

• Community Teacher Education - complete text of McLaughlin and O’Donoghue, . August 1996. 133p. A4. ISBN 9980-84-066-8. Chap 1 of 6
• Chapter 1 - Teacher Education:  Its Roots:  a 40 thousand year education tradition
• Chapter 2 - Teacher Education:  The Past
• Chapter 3 - Teacher Education:  The Future
• Chapter 4 - Teacher Education:  i. Pacific Perspectivies
• Chapter 5 - Improving Education:  Policy issues
  
• Chapter 6 - Improving Teacher Education:  .i.  Pedagogical problems
• Chapter 7 - Improving Teacher Education:  .i.  Political intrigues
• Chapter 8 - Improving Teacher Education:  Contextual Realities
• Chapter 9 - Improving Teacher Education:  .i.  Teacher Educators

See Also

• s/a youth - services for - community development
• s/a technology - mining industry - training

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Web site sponsors

• Sponsorship by Canada's IDRC
  Startup funding and publishing support. (see also www.idrc.ca  The International Development Research Centre, a public corporation created by the Canadian government  and www.idrc.org.sg and www.PanAsia.org.sg International Development Research Centre, Southeast and East Asia Region.)
• Help Resources (Inc) Wewak, PNG
  Editorial & publishing support.
  (see also Help Resources - NGO profile

Associated Projects
www.ngo.org.pg is a related project sponsored under the same initiative.  This web site has some of the most comprehensive information on the non-governmental-organisations (NGOs) working in Papua New Guineaa (PNG) and also provides a hosting service for NGOs presently unable to design and host their own sites.

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Web Site Photographic Contributions
Marsha Berman