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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Solomon Islands"”.
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Summative assessment practices of Solomon Islands year nine science teachers
… perceptions, experiences, and practices of six Solomon Islands secondary science teachers, based on the types of assessment they use in their science classrooms to serve a summative purpose. The study was divided into two parts. The first part involved a baseline study which explored the …
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Women’s Empowerment and Community-Driven Development: Evidence from the Solomon Islands
… (CDD) program on women’s empowerment in the Solomon Islands. Originally launched in 2008, the CDD program is known as the Rural Development Program (RDP). The RDP aims to foster employment and income growth by focusing on participatory development, demand-responsive provisions of government …
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Can Community Water Projects Combat Child Diarrhea? Results From the Solomon Islands
… This study expands the research question to the Solomon Islands. The research tests the hypothesis using a differences-in-differences identification strategy by utilizing the government’s staggered timing rollout of community water subprojects with whether or not a village received a community …
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Post-Lapita developments in the Reef-Santa Cruz Islands, southeast Solomon Islands
The Pacific is a world of islands, so human migrations are necessarily part of the story of this world. It is somewhat surprising therefore to find that there are so many points of contention among archaeologists, linguists and biologists about the role that migrations have played in producing …
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The leadership practices of Anglican school leaders in the Solomon Islands: leading for social justice
… with limited attention paid to the Pacific Islands especially Solomon Islands, it is timely to consider ways leadership for social justice is conceived and enacted in these contexts. This study was designed to explore how Anglican school leaders lead for social justice in the unique Solomon …
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Oli Aenaguri’ai: An ethnography of socio-ecological relations and contemporary change in Baelelea, Solomon Islands.
… in Baelelea inland villages on Malaita in the Solomon Islands. The undertaken anthropological and ethnographic study draws on both traditional and contemporary lifeworld of the Baelelea people living in Alafana. The thesis delves explicitly into the human lived experiences, subsistence ways, …
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Understanding health workers’ views on addressing the unmet need for family planning in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
… care to women and their families in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. This region was chosen for this study as it has a subnational disparity of highest unmet need for family planning in the Solomon Islands. The aim was to understand health workers’ perspectives on barriers to contraception in this …
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The decentralisation of education in a developing country: the case of community high schools in Solomon Islands
… High Schools (CHSs) in a developing country - Solomon Islands. The study examines, in particular, the local and global forces which have influenced the establishment of CHSs and the factors which may be facilitating or impeding their development at the level of implementation. A major interest …
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Impact of Natural Disaster Exposure on Prosocial Preferences and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from the Solomon Islands
… a process evaluation that was carried out in the Solomon Islands on the Rural Development Program (RDP) and a Structured Community Activity (SCA) experiment, which took place in 80 villages where 20 people in each village were given money and had to decide how much to keep or contribute towards a …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… development, in both Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The investigation focuses on forms and practices of articulations in the context of mining project relations. The underlying assumption is that the nature of relationship in any scheme of things matters for the actors involved. The …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… development, in both Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The investigation focuses on forms and practices of articulations in the context of mining project relations. The underlying assumption is that the nature of relationship in any scheme of things matters for the actors involved. The …
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Perceptions of technology and technology education in Fiji and the Solomon Islands: implications for a technology education curriculum
… and traditional technology in Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Perceptions are the mental representation of external objects and events based on stimulation from the human organ. People’s perceptions can tell us something about their past and present experiences which collectively influence the …
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The concept of development in Ulawa in Solomon Islands and its implications for national development policy and planning
… is judged. It is argued here that successive Solomon Islands governments have striven for social and economic development without taking full account of the real nature of Solomon Islands society. What is needed is national development policy, planning and implementation that arise out of, and …
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Professional Development for a New Curriculum for a Developing Country: The Example of Technology Education in the Solomon Islands
… implementation of technology education in the Solomon Islands. Technology education is a new development for the teachers in Solomon Islands who are used to a more prescribed technical education. The technology education in the Solomon Islands is in the process of change with the curriculum …
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The Interaction of western budgeting and Solomon Islands culture: A case of the budgeting process of the Church of Melanesia
… non-profit organisation in a developing country, Solomon Islands, as the case study. Its primary objective is to theorise on the process concepts explaining the influence of culture on the budgeting process, with specific reference to the impact of Solomon Islands culture on the western system …
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