Konai Helu Thaman
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- PhD Education University of the South Pacific
- Masters English University of Auckland
- Bachelors English University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Konai Helu Thaman is a poet and academic from Tonga. Career Between 1969 and 1972, Thaman was a teacher in Tonga. She has worked at the University of the South Pacific since 1974 and currently holds a Personal Chair in Pacific Education and Culture, a position she has held since its establishment in 1998. She has also held management positions at the university including Director of the Institute of Education, Head of the School of Humanities, and Pro-vice-chancellor.
Konai Helu Thaman's Published Works
Published Works
- Decolonizing Pacific Studies: Indigenous Perspectives, Knowledge, and Wisdom in Higher Education (2003) (233)
- Applied Rasch Measurement: A Book of Exemplars (2005) (130)
- Culture and the Curriculum in the South Pacific (1993) (96)
- Towards Cultural Democracy in Teaching and Learning With Specific References to Pacific Island Nations (PINs) (2009) (67)
- Shifting sights: the cultural challenge of sustainability (2002) (58)
- Concepts of learning, knowledge and wisdom in Tonga, and their relevance to modern education (1995) (53)
- Nurturing Relationships And Honouring Responsibilities: A Pacific Perspective (2008) (46)
- Looking towards the Source: A Consideration of (Cultural) Context in Teacher Education1 (1992) (45)
- Women in higher Education Management (1993) (38)
- Towards culturally inclusive teacher education with specific reference to Oceania (2001) (35)
- Learners' access to tools and experience with technology at the University of the South Pacific: Readiness for e-learning (2011) (30)
- Towards a culture-sensitive model of curriculum development for Pacific Island countries (1991) (29)
- The defining distance: people places and worldview. (1985) (26)
- Teacher capacities for working towards peace and sustainable development (2010) (25)
- Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji: mobilising global and local values (2017) (17)
- Educational Ideas from Oceania (2009) (15)
- Re presenting and re searching Oceania: a suggestion for synthesis. (2003) (14)
- Re-thinking education curricula in the Pacific: challenges and prospects (2009) (12)
- Reclaiming a place: Towards a Pacific concept of education for cultural development (1997) (11)
- Equity in, and access to, what kind of education?: some issues for consideration in the Pacific Islands (1998) (11)
- The Forgotten Context: Culture and Teacher Education in Oceania (1999) (10)
- Learners’ preference for instructional delivery mode: a case study from the University of South Pacific (USP) (2011) (10)
- Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Higher Education in the Pacific Island Region (2006) (10)
- Pacific Island principles: learning to live wise and sustainable lives (2009) (10)
- Quality teachers for indigenous students: an imperative for the twenty-first century (2014) (10)
- You, the choice of my parents : poems (1974) (10)
- No need to whisper: reclaiming indigenous knowledge and education in the Pacific (2014) (9)
- Cultural democracy for whom?: a view from the Pacific Islands (1994) (9)
- Open and Flexible Learning for Whom? Rethinking Distance Education 1 (2001) (9)
- Partnerships for Progressing Cultural Democracy in Teacher Education in Pacific Island Countries (2007) (9)
- The need to re-think the Pacific curriculum (2009) (8)
- Reclaiming a place: teachers and the education of Indigenous peoples in Oceania* (2012) (7)
- Different eyes: Indigenous educational ideas and their relevance to modern education: The case of Tonga (1995) (7)
- Islands in between: Some problems associatied with social studies curriculum development with specific references to Pacific Island countries (1987) (6)
- Towards Cultural Democracy in University Teaching and Research with Special Reference to the Pacific Island Region (2014) (6)
- Community expectations of secondary education in Tonga (1980) (6)
- Hingano : selected poems, 1966-1986 (1987) (6)
- Towards culture-sensitive curriculum development (1992) (5)
- Songs of love: New and selected poems, 1974-1999 (1999) (5)
- Education in Pacific Island Countries (2008) (5)
- Operational use of satellite and high altitude remote sensing for the generation of input data for water demand models (1974) (4)
- Pacific Island countries: an overview (2015) (4)
- DRAFT CULTURE , TEACHING AND LEARNING with specific references to Oceania (4)
- Reclaiming a place: culture and higher education in Oceania (1994) (3)
- The role of higher education in regional development in Pacific Island countries with specific reference to the University of the South Pacific (2008) (3)
- RE-THINKING AND RE-SEARCHING PACIFIC EDUCATION: further observations* (2009) (3)
- Hints for teachers at the University of the South Pacific: (multi) cultural sensitivity (1996) (2)
- Good Schools(and Bad): some issues in assessing school effectiveness in Pacific Island contexts (1985) (2)
- RECENT GROWTH OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION/REMOTE SENSING IN GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES (1974) (2)
- LE ' O E PEAU : Towards Cultural and Cognitive Democracy in Development in Pacific Islands Communities (2005) (2)
- The decade of education for sustainable development: implications for Pacific Island nations (2010) (2)
- Plenary paper on teacher education and development with specific references to Oceania (2007) (2)
- Education and globalisation: a view from Oceania (2004) (2)
- Vaa: a foundation for peace and inter-cultural understanding (2008) (2)
- The cultural challenge of higher education: understanding Pacific students and Pacific cultures (2014) (1)
- Learning to be: a Pacific perspective of education for sustainable development (2008) (1)
- Look up at the sky (1981) (1)
- Curriculum development issues in Pacific Island countries with specific references to Tonga (1985) (1)
- Decision-making social studies for Tonga: a proposed program with emphasis on the elementary and junior high school levels (1974) (1)
- Cultural and multicultural literacy and the curriculum (1994) (1)
- Culturally Inclusive Teacher Education in Oceania (2003) (1)
- Discussions and Debates in Pacific Education (2014) (1)
- Some Expectations for Tertiary Teachers: The Case of the University of the South Pacific (1977) (1)
- Community expectations as an important input in educational decision making: some Pacific island examples (1981) (0)
- Reclaiming a conversation: indigenous knowledge in the modern education agenda (2012) (0)
- Making places and spaces: towards cultural and cognitive democracy in higher education in Oceania (2006) (0)
- Community survey of students' unmet educational needs - Tonga (1977) (0)
- Water demand studies in central California. [Kern County, California] (1974) (0)
- Culture and teacher education in Oceania (1998) (0)
- Cultural and distance education: A view from the Pacific Islands (1995) (0)
- Farewell to a friend (1977) (0)
- Some issues in education in the South Pacific (1985) (0)
- Research and indigenous knowledge in oceania (2007) (0)
- Teachers as curriculum developers in the South Pacific: myths and realities (1981) (0)
- Review of Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood, by Helen Morton (1998) (0)
- Learning to Think in the Language of Strangers: IndigenousEducation in a Colonized and Globalized Pacific (2019) (0)
- Transactional Distance Theory: Should It Be Revised To Exclude Student-Student Interactions? 3 (2011) (0)
- No more guava (1979) (0)
- Afterword (2020) (0)
- Of waves, winds and wonderful things: a way forward for RPEIPP (2014) (0)
- Pacific Island Principles: learning to live wise and responsible lives (2009) (0)
- Review: Tonga Institute of Education (2012) (0)
- 19. My Blood (2017) (0)
- Sustainable Development for Whom? A View from Oceania. (2019) (0)
- The fortune teller (1974) (0)
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