Lagi, Rosiana;
Waqailiti, Ledua;
Raisele, Kolaia;
Tyson, Lorena Sanchez;
Nussey, Charlotte;
(2023)
‘Curui’: weaving climate justice and gender equality into Fijian educational policies and practices.
Comparative Education
10.1080/03050068.2023.2188370.
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Abstract
This paper takes inspiration from the Indigenous Fijian practice of ‘curui’ – weaving or patching together – as a metaphor to explore connections between climate justice, gender equality, and education in Fijian policies and practices. The paper argues that neither gender equality nor education can be ‘silver bullets’ for the huge challenges that the climate crisis raises, particularly for small island developing states (SIDS) such as Fiji that exist at the sharp end of the crisis. The paper contributes close analysis of Fijian national climate change policies and development plans from 2010, identifying the ways in which these policies frame and discuss the connections between climate, gender, and education, and asking whether these policies acknowledge traditional ecological knowledges, and the extent to which they are aligned with notions of justice. It argues that connected approaches to education, centred in Indigenous knowledges and ontologies, have thus far been insufficiently included in Fiji’s policies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Curui’: weaving climate justice and gender equality into Fijian educational policies and practices |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03050068.2023.2188370 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2023.2188370 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Policy, climate change, climate justice, gender equality, education, sustainable development, Indigenous knowledges, SIDS, Fiji |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167984 |
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