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Schooling, Knowledge, and Power: Social Transformation in the Solomon Islands
Author(s) -
WATSONGEGEO KAREN ANN,
GEGEO DAVID WELCHMAN
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1992.23.1.05x1101i
Subject(s) - indigenous , sociology , power (physics) , social change , distribution (mathematics) , social transformation , social science , economic growth , economics , ecology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , biology
Western schooling has been a major agent of social change in the Pacific islands for over a century. We examine planned and unplanned social transformations associated with Western‐style schooling in one Pacific society: the Solomon Islands. Indigenous and introduced models of education are briefly described, including the social distribution of access of schooling, competing theories of education and knowledge, and the role of schooling in maintaining and changing power relations in Solomon Island society. We find that transformations are not only manifested at the societal level, but also enacted in everyday educational settings.