Re-thinking Contextualisation in Solomon Islands school leadership professional learning and development

Sanga, Kabini and Maebuta, Jack and Fua, Seu'ula J. and Reynolds, Martyn (2020) Re-thinking Contextualisation in Solomon Islands school leadership professional learning and development. Pacific Dynamics: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 4 (1). pp. 17-29. ISSN 2463-641X

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Abstract

This article discusses the perceptions of Solomon Island mentors and regional administrators of a Solomon Islands aid-funded school leadership professional learning and development intervention. The focus is on contextualisation, used here as a broad term to refer to the adoption of ways of understanding, thinking and working recognisable and coherent within local practice. The scope of the article includes the significance of the configuration of relationships between delivery partners, the power of cause-based motivation, programme delivery protocols and ways of understanding successful outcomes. Using data drawn from two perspectives in
a multi-facetted programme construction and delivery model, the article offers some provocations regarding the potential of re-framing relationships and practices in aid-funded development programmes in educational leadership and beyond.

Keywords: contextualisation, education, leadership, aid programmes, professional development, Solomon Islands

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE) > Institute of Education
Depositing User:	Afuafu Kautoke
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2021 23:44
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2021 02:05
URI:	https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/12540

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