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dc.contributor.authorRyan, S.
dc.contributor.authorCurry, George
dc.contributor.authorGermis, E.
dc.contributor.authorKoczberski, Gina
dc.contributor.authorKoia, M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:19:41Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:19:41Z
dc.date.created2017-01-16T19:30:22Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationRyan, 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.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45251
dc.description.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.

dc.publisherSpringer, Singapore
dc.titleChallenges to the democratization of knowledge: status hierarchies and emerging inequalities in educational opportunities amongst oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea.
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage123
dcterms.source.endPage139
dcterms.source.titleEveryday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures. Trans disciplinary Approaches in the Asia- Pacific Region
dcterms.source.isbn9789811002144
dcterms.source.chapter17
curtin.departmentDepartment of Planning and Geography
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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