scholarly journals The Intersectional Nature of Educational Inequality in the Global South - A Case of Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norris Wangina
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Education System ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
The World

<p>Since the ‘Education for All Agenda’ was ratified at the Jomtien conference in 1990, the world has moved to implementing the agenda. Papua New Guinea believes that education is the solution to its social, economic, and political problems, and in taking ownership of and working towards implementing the programme. However, Papua New Guinea’s education system concentrates on improving girls’, education and special education. This has resulted in improved enrolment numbers and higher retention rates nationwide but has failed to deliver quality education to all students specifically marginalised children of both genders. This essay argues that delivering quality education to all children should be addressed through an intersectionality approach. Firstly, intersectionality is defined and the ways that intersecting factors cause marginalisation and discrimination within different groups around the world and in Papua New Guinea are described. Secondly, the essay discusses how Papua New Guinea’s culture contributes to segregation. Finally, it discusses how Papua New Guinea can approach intersectionality issues and improve its education system to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, i.e. to provide inclusive and equitable education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. </p>

scholarly journals The Intersectional Nature of Educational Inequality in the Global South - A Case of Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norris Wangina
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Education System ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
The World

<p>Since the ‘Education for All Agenda’ was ratified at the Jomtien conference in 1990, the world has moved to implementing the agenda. Papua New Guinea believes that education is the solution to its social, economic, and political problems, and in taking ownership of and working towards implementing the programme. However, Papua New Guinea’s education system concentrates on improving girls’, education and special education. This has resulted in improved enrolment numbers and higher retention rates nationwide but has failed to deliver quality education to all students specifically marginalised children of both genders. This essay argues that delivering quality education to all children should be addressed through an intersectionality approach. Firstly, intersectionality is defined and the ways that intersecting factors cause marginalisation and discrimination within different groups around the world and in Papua New Guinea are described. Secondly, the essay discusses how Papua New Guinea’s culture contributes to segregation. Finally, it discusses how Papua New Guinea can approach intersectionality issues and improve its education system to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, i.e. to provide inclusive and equitable education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. </p>

Editorial - Curriculum Reform in Jamaica: Case Studies of Teachers’ Experiences with the National Standards Curriculum

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. i-iv
Author(s):  
Carmel Roofe ◽  
Andrea Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Education System ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Teachers Experiences

Since its independence in 1962, Jamaica has been involved in an ongoing process of education reform to address inequities in its education system, respond to changing needs, and provide the best education for its populace. Achieving quality, access, and equity in the education system have been key principles underlying these reforms. Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the global community in 2015, Sustainable Development Goal Four, which seeks to “Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning,” has been the foundation driving these reforms.

35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (260) ◽  
pp. 604-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Pavlides ◽  
Chris Gosden
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Open Site ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Layers ◽  
New Britain

The growing story of early settlement in the northwest Pacific islands is moving from coastal sites into the rainforest. Evidence of Pleistocene cultural layers have been discovered in open-site excavations at Yombon, an area containing shifting hamlets, in West New Britain's interior tropical rainforest. These sites, the oldest in New Britain, may presently stand as the oldest open sites discovered in rainforest anywhere in the world.

The World’s Oldest Tsunami Victim at the Gateway to the Pacific—and Beyond

Tsunami ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
James Goff ◽  
Walter Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Settlement Abandonment

The 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami was a significant puzzle for scientists who finally cracked the cause, but it also marks the most recent event of many that can be dated back to at least 6,000 years ago where the skull of the oldest tsunami victim in the world was found. Papua New Guinea was also the starting point for the most remarkable navigational feat in the world, with Polynesians moving rapidly east into the Pacific Ocean, their settlement of the region being punctuated by hiatuses caused by catastrophic tsunamis approximately 3,000, 2,000, and 600 years ago. It was on isolated Pacific islands that humans first came into contact with the deadly Pacific Ring of Fire. Settlement abandonment, mass graves, and cultural collapse mark their progress.

Writing in Times of Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-234
Author(s):  
Amir Kalan
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
Genre Practices

This chapter focuses on a memoir and a film that narrate the experiences of Kurdish writer Behrouz Boochani in an Australian refugee camp in Papua New Guinea in order to show how genres organically develop out of human engagement with social and historical circumstances. The author discusses the novel and the film as examples of how writers' interactions with the world impose rhetorical orientations and nurture genre formation. This chapter illustrates that, as opposed to the dominant view of rhetoric as a means of persuasion, the essence of rhetoric and genre formation is engagement with what the author calls “phenomenological autoethnography.” The author argues that studying writing in times of crisis makes the phenomenological and autoethnographic foundations of writing visible because in crises rhetoric is unapologetically used to resist injustice and build resistance through “poetic realism,” which consists of fluid genre practices that can help capture the complexities of human experience.

Building a Vision for Quality Education

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gray Rinehart
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Education System ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
American Industry ◽  
The World

The concepts of customer satisfaction and continuous improvement of products and service form the foundation of the quality philosophy that swept across American industry during the 1980s. The translation of the concepts from industrial to educational practice is proceeding in many areas across the country and around the world, where the principles are being applied to school administration, curricula and teaching. One of the first and most necessary tasks in expanding and solidifying this effort is formulating and communicating a broad, compelling vision to unite different elements of the education system together in pursuing continuous improvement. The construction of a vision for quality is the focus of this article.

scholarly journals An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4411 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
WILLIAM T. WHITE ◽  
ALFRED KO’OU
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Biological Collections ◽  
The World ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
Biodiversity Study ◽  
Voucher Material ◽  
Annotated Checklist ◽  
Papua New Guinean

An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) of Papua New Guinean waters is herein presented. The checklist is the result of a large biodiversity study on the chondrichthyan fauna of Papua New Guinea between 2013 and 2017. The chondrichthyan fauna of Papua New Guinea has historically been very poorly known due to a lack of baseline information and limited deepwater exploration. A total of 131 species, comprising 36 families and 68 genera, were recorded. The most speciose families are the Carcharhinidae with 29 species and the Dasyatidae with 23 species. Verified voucher material from various biological collections around the world are provided, with a total of 687 lots recorded comprising 574 whole specimens, 128 sets of jaws and 21 sawfish rostra. This represents the first detailed, verified checklist of chondrichthyans from Papua New Guinean waters. 

Continents and consequences: the history of a concept

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Yearwood
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
World Geography ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

AbstractOriginally intended to provide an accessible overview for colleagues in Papua New Guinea, this article outlines the emergence of the continental division of the world in classical antiquity. In medieval Europe this survived as a learned conception which eventually acquired emotional content. Nevertheless, the division was still within the context of universal Christianity, which did not privilege any continent. Contrary to the views of recent critics, the European sense of world geography was not inherently ‘Eurocentric’. While Europeans did develop a sense of continental superiority, Americans, Africans, and many Asians also came to identify themselves with their continents and to use them as weapons against European domination. The application of the division to Melanesia is also considered.

Some chemical features of two Papuan fresh waters (Papua New Guinea)

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 467 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Petr
Keyword(s):  
River Water ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Chemical Weathering ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Tropical River ◽  
Dominant Source ◽  
Sepik River ◽  
The World ◽  
Port Moresby ◽  
Total Salinity

The Purari River in Papua (Papua New Guinea) is a tropical river with ionic dominance similar to that of the world average river water, i.e. Ca > Mg > Na > K, and HCO3 > (SO4?) > Cl. As the sulphate concentration was not determined, the anionic trend still needs to be further investigated. The Na:Ca as well as the Ca + Mg:Na + K ionic ratios suggest that chemical weathering in the highlands is the dominant source of dissolved solids, and that it determines the chemistry of the lower course of the Purari River. Among the waters investigated, the Purari River, in its lower course, has a total salinity higher than that of the Sirinumu impoundment, and lower than that of the Sepik River. The low concentration of solutes in the Sirinumu impoundment near Port Moresby indicates that oligotrophication can be expected in reservoirs built on Papuan rivers.

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