Science of Pacific Island Peoples: Education, language, patterns & policyR. J. Morrison, Paul A. Geraghty, Linda Crowl "Science of the Pacific Island Peoples is a series of four volumes which contains a unique collection of traditional scientific and technical knowledge from the Pacific Islands. Traditional knowledge, based on accumulated experience or continuous usage, is usually passed from one generation to the next by work of mouth and demonstration. Having had little attention from the media, education ministries, or development agencies, traditional knowledge is in danger of being forgotten. These books attempt to record some aspects of traditional knowledge before they are lost. This, the fourth volume, on Education, Language, Patterns, and Policy contains chapters on allegory, Australia, tourism, the 21st century, Fijian cosmology, Tongan symmetries, Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, communication and information, the Crown Research Institutes of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Polynesian thought, Maori knowledge, developmental activities in Western Samoa, Fijian mats, Micronesian development, and Vanuatu games. The other volumes in the series are Ocean and Coastal Studies (volume 1); Land Use and Agriculture (volume 2); and Fauna, Flora, Food & Medicine (volume 3)."--Back cover. |
Contents
Knowledge as Allegory | 1 |
How Should We Approach the History of Australian Science? | 13 |
Incorporating Traditional Knowlege in Developmental | 14 |
Impact of Tourism | 25 |
4 | 37 |
Pacific Science in the 21st Century | 41 |
5 | 52 |
Fijian Cosmology Vanua Development and Ecology | 55 |
Science and Technology Policy in Papua New Guinea | 121 |
Arapo | 131 |
Language Communication and Learning in Science | 137 |
Maori Science and the Crown Research Institutes | 151 |
A Manifesto for | 159 |
The Maori Scientific Body of Knowledge | 167 |
A Fijian Craft with a Mathematical Base | 191 |
The Micronesian | 199 |
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