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    Challenges to the democratization of knowledge: status hierarchies and emerging inequalities in educational opportunities amongst oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea.

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    Authors
    Ryan, S.
    Curry, George
    Germis, E.
    Koczberski, Gina
    Koia, M.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Ryan, S. and Curry, G. and Germis, E. and Koczberski, G. and Koia, M. 2016. Challenges to the democratization of knowledge: status hierarchies and emerging inequalities in educational opportunities amongst oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea, in Robertson, M. and Tsang, P.K. (ed), Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures: Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Asia-Pacific Region, pp. 123-139. Singapore: Springer.
    Source Title
    Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures. Trans disciplinary Approaches in the Asia- Pacific Region
    ISBN
    9789811002144
    School
    Department of Planning and Geography
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45251
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This chapter examines the educational levels and opportunities among migrant oil palm farming households in the three main oil palm-growing areas of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Whilst average adult education levels in oil palm farming communities are higher than the national average, they are still low given most children do not finish primary school. Moreover, findings indicate that population and income pressures are leading to increasing social and economic stratification within and between families. Inequality is most evident by the fact that children from families without regular access to oil palm income have lower education levels than those children from families living on the same block who regularly receive oil palm income. Stratification as differential educational opportunities is a new phenomenon reflecting greater individualism and the rise of market relations and has considerable development implications particularly for policies aimed at reducing poverty and vulnerability levels in rural PNG.

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