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Publication provides info on Pacific education
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Posted on May 26 2004
A collection of articles on education in Hawaii and the U.S.-affiliated Pacific is now available from Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL).
The volume, entitled Research Into Practice, is available online at www.prel.org/products/pr_/compendium04/TableofContents.asp.
Research Into Practice presents insights and information gained through PRELs work.
For example, an article co-authored by PREL Senior Scholar Hilda Heine presents a local perspective on the impact of U.S. education aid in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Entitled A Double-Edged Sword: A Study of the Impact of External Educational Aid to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the article describes both the benefits and negative effects. These last include reshaping Marshallese education to a U.S. model and decreased opportunity for local capacity building. Heine is the former director of education for RMI.
Other articles address library education needs, reducing child labor through use of technology, and supporting local efforts to implement distance learning in the Pacific.
As PREL president and CEO Tom Barlow observes, “This collection provides valuable information about a region for which little such data is available. It should be useful for those who wish to be better informed about education in the Pacific, as well as other areas PREL serves.”
PREL is a nonprofit corporation that works collaboratively with school systems to enhance education in Hawaii, the Pacific, the Asia Pacific region, and beyond.
For more information, contact Joan Perkins by phone at (808) 441-1420 or visit the PREL website at www.prel.org.
