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- Title
Taking ownership: The story of a successful partnership for change in a Pacific Island science teacher education setting.
- Authors
Edwards, Richard; Pita, Solomon; Porakari, James
- Abstract
This paper explores an example of a partnership approach that appears to be producing sustainable change in a Pacific Islands education setting. The people involved report on the way science education staff from the Solomon Islands School of Education (SOE) and staff from the Faculty of Education University of Waikato (UOW), New Zealand worked together on the redevelopment of undergraduate science education courses for the SOE. Together we sought to identify significant factors supporting the process. The development required significant change and posed a number of challenges yet resulted in local staff producing high quality materials and programmes and taking ownership of ongoing development. More importantly, there was significant personal professional learning in both science education and initial teacher education for local Solomon Islands staff. Factors contributing to the success of the partnership are explored through the perceptions of the participants and include the quality of relationship, mutual respect, emphasis on conceptual agreement when working together, and the involvement of local staff in decision-making.
- Subjects
HAMILTON (N.Z.); NEW Zealand; SOLOMON Islands; TEACHER education; EDUCATIONAL planning; SCIENCE education; UNIVERSITY of Waikato
- Publication
Waikato Journal of Education, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
1173-6135
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15663/wje.v16i2.51