Of Waves, Winds and Wonderful Things

Book excerpt: The Rethinking Pacific Education Initiative by Pacific Peoples for Pacific Peoples (RPEIPP) began as an idea during the inaugural symposium on Researching the Delivery of Aid to Pacific Education at the University of Auckland in December 2000. The first activity of the Initiative was a meeting of selected Pacific educators, which was held at USP and hosted by the Institute of Education in April 2001. Edited by Mo'ale 'Otunuku, Unaisi Nabobo-Baba and Seu'ula Johansson Fua this book features the following essays: Look Back to Look Forward: A Reflective Pacific Journey; Relections on a Decade of the Rethinking Pacic Eduation Initiative; RPEIPP in Micronesia: Impacts and Lessons Learned; When a Generations Reaps what Another Generation Sows; More than a Philosophy! Personal Reflections on the Impact of RPEI on Leadership, Research and Education in Pacific Contemoporary Arts: A Tala; Kakala Research Franework: A Garland in Celebration of a Decade of Rethinking Education; Re-thinking Pacific Education: Reflections on the Pacific Margins, Pacific Rim; School leadership Preparation and Development; The Cases of Fiji and the Solomon Islands; Tongan Parents' Conception of Schooling in New Zealand; Pacific Postgraduate Research in Education Done atthe University of the South Pacific; Development of Early Childhood Education Curriculum in the Solomon Islands; 'Iluvatu: An Indigenous Framework; Re-thinking Citizenship Education in the Solomon Islands; A First Look at an Indigenous Pacific Ethical System and its Impications for Research; Putting Ancient Wind and Life into New Sails; Critical Discourse Analysis as Curriculum Development: Critical Approaches to Culturally Relevant Curricula in the Pacific; Of Waves, Winds and Wonderful Things: A Way Ahead for RPEIPP.