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- Title
THE IMPACT OF DECOLONISATION ON KANAK GIRLS' SCHOOL SUCCESS (LIFOU, NEW CALEDONIA).
- Authors
NICOLAS, HÉLÈNE
- Abstract
Kanak girls' school success in New-Caledonia has been impressive in recent years. This article examines how the Roman Catholic, Protestant and secular schools, and the Melanesian ideal of separation of the sexes, discriminated girls until the 1990s, and how the girls' recent success is linked to processes of decolonisation as well as to women's strategies for gaining more autonomy.
- Subjects
LIFOU Island (New Caledonia); NEW Caledonia; KANAKA youth; KANAKA (New Caledonian people); GIRLS' schools; DECOLONIZATION; SEX discrimination in education; EDUCATION
- Publication
Journal of the Polynesian Society, 2010, Vol 119, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0032-4000
- Publication type
Article