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Negotiating conflicting discourses of quality teaching in Fiji

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dc.contributor.author Burnett, Greg
dc.contributor.author Prakash, Kusum
dc.contributor.author Sharma, Vinata
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-01T22:53:44Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-01T22:53:44Z
dc.date.issued 2017-05
dc.identifier.citation Burnett, G., Prakash, K., & Sharma, V. (2019). Negotiating conflicting discourses of quality teaching in Fiji: Initial teacher education and practicum at the University of the South Pacific. Waikato Journal of Education, 24(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.15663/wje.v24i1.647 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2382-0373
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.15663/wje.v24i1.647
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1007
dc.description Journal article ; 12 p. en_US
dc.description.abstract This article identifies a number of conflicting discourses informing education in Fiji and their impact on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes and students. The socially constructivist progressivism of the Ministry of Education and the ITE provider is being eroded by a set of socially conservative discourses symptomatic of neoliberal education reforms elsewhere. It is the practicum where the conflict is most acutely evidenced. To highlight the conflict 90 ITE students, as ethnographic fieldworkers, have used an accepted quality teaching checklist to record the teaching they witnessed while on practicum. The resulting misalignments between discourses of quality teaching identified in this article, and highlighted by ITE students, contribute to debates about what constitutes effective teaching in Fiji. The complex set of discourses identified as impacting on initial teacher education and education in Fiji more generally can be utilised by ITE programmes to generate critical reflection among students. One way to do this is to take a learning-centred approach where ITE students are encouraged to make critical choices for teaching based on links between pedagogy, context and consequence. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Waikato Journal of EducationWaikato = Te Hautaka Mātauranga o Waikato en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Waikato Journal of Education;Volume 24, Issue 1, 2019
dc.subject Fiji en_US
dc.subject practicum en_US
dc.subject teacher education en_US
dc.subject social constructivism en_US
dc.subject behaviourism en_US
dc.subject learning-centred en_US
dc.title Negotiating conflicting discourses of quality teaching in Fiji en_US
dc.title.alternative Initial teacher education and practicum at the University of the South Pacific en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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