Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Mathematics Education Before European Influence.- Chapter 3: The Early Colonial Period and Between the Wars.- Chapter 4: Before and After Independence: Community Schools, Secondary and Tertiary Education.- Chapter 5: The Reform Period and Re-Reform : Elementary Schools and Vernacular Education.- Chapter 6: Higher Education: University Mathematics, Technology Education, Teacher Education and Research.- Chapter 7: Mathematics Education and Language.- Chapter 8: Colonisation, Post-Colonisation, Aid, Gender Equity, and Glocalisation.- Chapter 9: Major Themes in the History of Mathematics Education in Papua New Guinea.

Patricia Paraide is an associate professor in Education Research at Divine Word University. She received her PhD at Deakin University in 2009. She has published a number of papers on education in Papua New Guinea, including mathematics education, and has presented at several conferences internationally. Her expertise and interests include language and linguistics, literacy across the lifespan, and education and indigenous knowledge.

Kay Owens began her teaching career as a mathematics and health education secondary teacher in Australia before moving to Papua New Guinea for 15 years with her partner Chris Owens. She taught mathematics at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology and taught, as Head of Department, health education and education at Balob Teachers College. On returning to Australia, she taught mathematics education at the now Western Sydney University for 15 years before moving to be with family in Dubbo to Charles Sturt University for 14 years. She was Vice-President (Publications) for the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia and held numerous positions in State and regional professional groups. She is a 35 year Member of Australian College of Educators following her work in PNG, and assists with mathematics and environmental associations. During her years in Australia she has continued to work with Papua New Guinea colleagues in joint research projects on ecocultural mathematics and mathematics education. She has numerous published papers and two of her books focus on Papua New Guinea Visuospatial Reasoning: An Ecocultural Perspective for Space, Geometry and Measurement Education and History of Number: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Oceania.Before joining Australian Catholic University, Emeritus Professor Philip Clarkson for nearly five years was Director of a Research Centre at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. During this time, he carried out research into language and mathematics