Education and society in the Asia-Pacific region
Dr A Rice
Second semester * Clayton
The subject focuses on the ways education is shaped by, and comes to be understood by, local, regional and global social forces. The approach is comparative in two senses. First, students are required to develop a good knowledge of at least two countries. The countries must be chosen from two of the three categories - Australia, Asia and the Pacific Islands. Second, students are required to make a comparison of local and external interpretations of education and society.
Assessment
One library project (1000 words) * One seminar project (2000 words) * One major assignment (6000 words)
Recommended texts
AREA handbook for Oceania 2nd edn, 1984
Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea 3 vols, 1972
Craig R and others (eds.) Historical dictionary of Oceania 1981
Pacific Islands yearbook 16th edn, 1989
Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific, 1989
Crocombe R and others Land tenure in the Pacific, 1971
Crocombe R The Pacific way, 1975
Tongamoa T (ed.) Pacific women: Roles and status of women in Pacific societies 1988
Reischauer E and Fairbank J East Asia: The modern transformation