Education in New Guinea: Some Administrative Problems
K.R. LAMACRAFT
(Chief of the Division of Technical Education in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and a member of the T.P.N.G. Apprenticeship and Secondary Examination Boards. He holds the degrees of B.A. Dip.Ed. from Adelaide and B.Ed. from Melbourne Universities, the Adelaide Diploma of Art Teaching and is a Member of the Australian College of Education. During 1962 he was awarded a travel grant by the South Pacific Commission to conduct a seminar on Post Primary Education in the New Hebrides. He has published articles on many aspects of education in T.P.N.G.)
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Abstract
The organization and administration of education in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea is described. Reference is made to the unusual culture‐context in which the educationist carries on his work and some of the formidable obstacles—administrative and cultural—which have to be surmounted are vividly portrayed.
Citation
LAMACRAFT, K.R. (1966), "Education in New Guinea: Some Administrative Problems", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 81-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009600
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1966, MCB UP Limited