CONTEXTUALIZING
PACIFIC EDUCATION
-an e-book that aims to highlight, promote,
and extend the understanding of education in "context" or
"place."
In 2007-2008, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning's (PREL's) Pacific Comprehensive Center (PCC) hosted a key outreach activity-the NCLB Forum and the Pacific Webinar Series. A network for Pacific educators by Pacific educators, the webinars provided an opportunity for dialogue and exchange that worked to establish culturally relevant pathways for contextualized responses to NCLB initiatives, one step at a time. The PCC webinar series' Expert Panel of the Pacific (EPP) are the authors of the chapters of this book. They include Dr. Salusalumalo Hunkin-Finau of American Samoa; Ms. Joann Sebastian Morris, formerly of Hawai'i and now in Washington, D.C.; Ms. Evelyn Joseph of the Republic of Marshall Islands; Dr. Elizabeth Rechebei of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands; and Mr. Masa-Aki Emesiochl of the Republic of Palau. All have long been advocates for Pacific children and their right to learn relevant content in culturally appropriate ways. The authors, all Pacific educators, write in response to NCLB from their sense of place.