Teachers and Education in the Pacific (TEP): a Desk Study Report

Teachers and Education in the Pacific (TEP): a Desk Study Report

Teachers and Education in the Pacific (TEP): A desk study report Commissioned by AusAID- ADB as Phase I – Laying the Foundation of a Three-phased regional Pacific project, 2007 - 2009 by Seu’ula Johansson Fua, PhD (Principal Researcher) Kabini F Sanga, PhD (Project Director/Team Leader) Implemented by the Institute of Education in collaboration with Pacific communities December 2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study could not have been done without the support of numerous organisations and people, including the following: AusAID and ADB as the donors, with AusAID funding phase 1 of the project. National Departments, Ministries of Education and Teachers‟ Colleges of participating countries Members of the Advisory board of this study such as: Dr „Ana Taufe‟ulungaki – Pro VC Research and Graduate Affairs, USP Professor Konai Thaman – UNESCO Chair for Teacher and Culture, USP Aileen Savu - Office for Development and Planning, USP Dr Akhila Sharma – Head of School of Education, USP Dr Akaniki Kedrayate, A/Dean Faculty of Arts and Law, USP Helen Tavola – Forum Secretariat Richard Wah – SPBEA Ana Raivoce – SPBEA Govinda Singh –COPE Dr Priscilla Puamau – PATE Ministry of Education Fiji James Agigo (PNG) and Eperesa Esera (Samoa) who were subcontracted conduct desk review of their respective countries. Colleagues of the IOE; including Henry Elder, Frances Pene, Cherry Rota, Cherry Kaake, Marlie Rota and Anjula Devi, who have supported the study team throughout the study. 2 CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................. 9 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................. 12 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................ 13 METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 1. TEACHERS AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE COOK ISLANDS ................................................................ 20 1.1 Country background............................................................................................................................................ 20 1.1.1 National social, cultural, political and economic background ........................................................................ 20 1.1.2 Educational Background ................................................................................................................................ 20 1.2 Teachers and teacher education ......................................................................................................................... 23 1.3 Legislation and employment frameworks ............................................................................................................ 24 1.4 Teacher-related and teacher education policies ................................................................................................. 24 1.5 Teacher education programmes .......................................................................................................................... 26 1.6 Teacher education curriculum ............................................................................................................................ 27 1.7 The teacher educator and the student teacher .................................................................................................... 28 1.8 The teacher graduate (status, quality, deployment etc)....................................................................................... 28 1.9 Resources for teachers ........................................................................................................................................ 29 1.10 Projects for teachers and teacher education ....................................................................................................... 29 1.11 Summaries: Key issues for teachers and teacher education .............................................................................. 31 1.12 Proposed issues/ areas for further scrutiny/research/discussion ........................................................................ 32 2. TEACHERS AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN FIJI ................................................................................................ 34 2.1 Country Background ........................................................................................................................................... 34 2.1.1 Geographical, historical and economic background ....................................................................................... 34 2.1.2 Educational background ................................................................................................................................. 35 2.2 Teachers and teacher education ......................................................................................................................... 37 2.3 Legislation and employment frameworks ............................................................................................................ 41 2.4 Teacher–related and teacher education policies ................................................................................................ 43 2.5 Teacher education programmes .......................................................................................................................... 43 2.6 Teacher education curriculum ............................................................................................................................ 45 2.7 The teacher educator and the student teacher .................................................................................................... 46 2.8 The teacher graduate (status, quality, deployment etc)....................................................................................... 47 2.9 Resources for teachers ........................................................................................................................................ 48 2.10 Projects for teachers and teacher education ....................................................................................................... 48 2.11 Summaries: Key issues for teachers and teacher education ............................................................................... 51 2.12 Proposed issues/ areas for further scrutiny/ research/ discussion ...................................................................... 51 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................................. 52 3. TEACHERS AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN KIRIBATI ..................................................................................... 53 3 3.1 Country Background ........................................................................................................................................... 53 3.1.1 National social, cultural, political and economic background ........................................................................ 53 3.1.2 Education System ........................................................................................................................................... 53 3.2 Teachers and teacher education ......................................................................................................................... 54 3.3 Legislations and employment frameworks .......................................................................................................... 54 3.4 Teacher-related and teacher education policies ................................................................................................. 55 3.5 Teacher education programmes .......................................................................................................................... 55 3.6 The teacher educator and the student teacher .................................................................................................... 56 3.7 The teacher graduate (status, quality, deployment etc)....................................................................................... 56 3.8 Resources for Teachers ....................................................................................................................................... 56 3.9 Projects for teachers and teacher education ....................................................................................................... 56 3.10 Summaries: Key issues for teacher and teacher education ................................................................................. 56 3.11 Proposed issues/areas for further scrutiny, research and discussion ................................................................. 57 4. TEACHERS AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN NAURU.......................................................................................... 58 4.1 Country background............................................................................................................................................ 58 4.1.1 National social, cultural, political and economic background ........................................................................ 58 4.1.2 Educational background

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