PNG Social Sciences Subject Areas

Subjects & topics in this area include:

| Business & economics | Community development | Devolution of PNG Education  | Disabled-handicapped people | Education & training | Education policy globalization | Government & politics | Health services | Industrial & employment relations:  mining industry | Land development-management | Literacy - Critical & Developmental  | Laws: National Identity Act  | Laws-Lawyers  | Transportation e.g.. Railways | Self help resources | Village-economy | Youth |  Women |

• Communications
  • Evaluating Information:  A Stone Age perspective on the Internet - A.D. Madden, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom & J. Palimi, School of Business Administration, University of Papua New Guinea
• Disabled - handicapped people
  • This paper outlines regional and national key policy strategies which are aimed at reducing the barriers which handicap disabled people in society. - Bruce Yeats, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Papua New Guinea
• Economics
  • Management of community development
    Community management of development:  How can we make it happen?
• Education
  • ADEA/UNESCO Survey on Conditions of Teaching and Learning:  Study on the Context of Book Provision - Linda Crowl, Publications Fellow, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1999
  • Community Teacher Education
    complete text of McLaughlin and O’Donoghue, . August 1996. 133p. A4. ISBN 9980-84-066-8. Chap 1 of 6
    • Chapter 1 - Teacher Education:  Its Roots:  a 40 thousand year education tradition
    • Chapter 2 - Teacher Education:  The Past
    • Chapter 3 - Teacher Education:  The Future
    • Chapter 4 - Teacher Education:  Perspectives. Pacific Perspectives
    • Chapter 5 - Improving Education:  Policy issues
      
    • Chapter 6 - Improving Teacher Education:  .i.  Pedagogical problems
    • Chapter 7 - Improving Teacher Education:  .i.  Political intrigues
    • Chapter 8 - Improving Teacher Education:  Contextual Realities
    • Chapter 9 - Improving Teacher Education:  .i.  Teacher Educators
  • Critical & Developmental Literacy
    • 195 k. PDF file draft of UPNG Press publication by late Dr. Otto Neketel
  • Education - literacy awareness programs
    "Information and women" by Lady Carol Kidu, MP, 1997 Waigani Seminar - overview on literacy awareness programs, poverty, political issues, cultural-social issues, life expectancy drop ...
  • Globalisation of Education Policies:
    Extent Of External Influences On Contemporary Universal Primary Education Policies In Papua New Guinea excerpts from Thomas Webster - book - University of Papua New Guinea Press, July 2000.  1SBN:  9980-084-094-3
  • Problems of Devolution of PNG Education
    Book by Dr. Gabriel Kulwaum, Administrator Manus Province
    • Chapters 1 - 6 - full text from book Introduction to Problems of Devolution of PNG Education Note: a 200 k html file
    • Education policy development - history - colonial legacy & devolution
    • Education policy development - history - colonial legacy & devolution - research methods
  • see also Training in PNG mining industry labor force
• Health Services & Education Programs in PNG
  • Health Resources Contacts Directory including:  Hospitals | Provincial Health Administration Contacts | Nursing Schools | Allied Health Worker Training Programs etc. [includes phone numbers, names, email info]
• Industrial & employment relations
  • Industrial &employment relations in the mining industry (n.b. 2000 publication date)
• Land use - economic development
  • Global village: a village of the future for Papua New Guinea Anthony P. Power, July 2001
    "to make our people much more productive in the village by diversifying and strengthening the village economy. A very wide range of appropriate technology that is relatively cheap is available for village people. "
  • Land mobilization program in Papua New Guinea Anthony P.Power, July 2001
    ...Nearly three decades of neglect of customary land management by successive governments since Independence has denied development to most of our citizens who own the country....[now]...
  • see also
    Land Groups: the foundation for nation building in Papua New Guinea
            - A.P.Power, September 1998
    • Part 1 - Land Groups Article
    • Part 2 - Land Groups Article
  • Land use - environmental aspects
• Laws - INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA National Identity Act 1971
  • National Identity Act 1971
• Laws - Studying to be a PNG Lawyer
  • University of PNG Law School Courses
  
  
• Politics

  government - policy development - history - colonial legacy see also Education - policy development - history

• Self Help Resources and Organizations
  • HELP Resources (Inc.) Wewak, Sepik Province supporting self-determined, community based, sustainable development service initiatives...
    see the HELP Resources Profile 2002 to 2003
    
    [please note:  HELP Resources is a former co-sponsor of this web site www.pngbuai.com]
• Transportation - Railways - Economic Development
  • Construction of Railways and Rural Development
    • copy of December 1991 letter-proposal to Pias Wingti, C/-National Parliament, Waigani, from Michael R. Pearson
      "...concerning the possibilty of construction railways to help in the reconstruction of Bougainville and improving rural employment there.  PNGRailLetter.pdf [87 k pdf file]
    • COPY 1 level up -PNGRailLetter.pdf [87 k pdf file]
  • Railways and Tramlines of Rabaul 1890s - 1980s
    • Article by Michael R. Pearson, date August 14, 1992
      RABAULTRAM.pdf [157 k pdf file]
  • A Chronology of Tramways and Railways in Papua New Guinea
    • 1880s - 1980s with 1992 epilog re Bougainville crises
      RAILWAYChronologyEd3.pdf [234 k pdf file]
  • Transportation - history - colonial
    • End of the line: a history of railways in Papua New Guinea by Bob McKillop and Michael Pearson, Port Moresby, PNG - major excerpts from book in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, includes footnotes, illustrations and photos
    • Sample photos and maps animal drawn railcars, locomotives, Rabaul Tramway map
    • Railways in German New Guinea (1884 - 1914)
    • Railways in Australian Territory of Papua (1914 - )
      
      
• Women - services for - conditions of
  • Information and women by Lady Carol Kidu, MP, 1997 Waigani Seminar - overview on literacy awareness programs, poverty, political issues, cultural-social issues, life expectancy drop ...
• Youth - services for - community / national development
  • Conference proceedings

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