From: Navitalai Halofaki [halofaki_n@usp.ac.fj]
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:00 PM
To: 'Koroata O'Brien'
Subject: FW: NOPE Article on life at Rabi High School Fiji
From: nope-bounces@usp.ac.fj [mailto:nope-bounces@usp.ac.fj] On Behalf Of Teweiariki Teaero
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:18 AM
To: nope@usp.ac.fj
Subject: RE: NOPE Article on life at Rabi High School Fiji
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to join you all in commending Rabi High for the very successful integration of indigenous ideas, arts and culture into their curriculum and other school activities. This sits squarely in the middle of the mat of what re-thinking Pacific education is all about, and what we have been teaching our future teachers in the School of Education at USP – as well as in other teacher education institutions around the region.
I would like to congratulate the previous principals Rubena Ofati and Master Aran Hedstrom, both Banaban, for initiating moves in this direction for their own people on what has now become their home for more than 50 years and to the current Principal, Master Ranjishwar Prasad for carrying on that critically important legacy. Work in this area during Aran’s tenure has been well documented by Aotearoa New Zealand film crews. I also commend parents like Marlie Rota for seeing the value of such an education. Ideals, no matter how elegant, cannot become realities without the resolute commitments of educators like these principals and parents like these on the ground.
Ngaia raoi anne, Rabi High School. Taua ma naomi ni koaua ao tabekia rake i eta ibukia kaain te roro ae e rikirake. Te mauri, te raoi ao te tabomoa!
Regards,
Teweiariki Teaero
Senior Lecturer in Education &
Head, School of Education
Faculty of Arts & Law
The University of the South Pacific
Laucala Campus, Private Mailbag, Suva
website: www.usp.ac.fj
Telephone 679-3232552
Fax (679) 3231039
"Te mauri, te raoi ao te tabomoa" on us all now and always!
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