Vaka Pasifiki Education Conference 2025: Registration and Call for Papers
Join the 2025 Vaka Pasifiki Education Conference to reflect on the role of scholarly research and innovation that foster culturally inclusive approaches to policy, curriculum, pedagogy, and educational reform. Commemorating over two decades of Pacific educational dialogue, Vaka Pasifiki will berth for the first time in Micronesia. The 2025 conference provides a platform to reimagine Pacific education through contextually relevant and culturally responsive approaches.
The conference aims to bring together leading Pacific educators, researchers, academics and community leaders to discuss and share insights on the broad conference theme: Jab Liktōn peeke jeļāļokjen: With knowledge, influence decision-making, voice your ideas, do not remain silent’.
In order to attend, register to secure your place. There are limited seats available.
Call for Papers
You are invited to submit an abstract for presentation on one of the following themes:
Conference themes:
- Pacific identity, voices-voicing, silence-silencing languages – ‘voice your ideas’, ‘do not remain silent’
- Pacific knowledge – indigenous and contemporary knowledge, including Pacific pedagogy, ways of knowing, inter-generational transfer of knowledge, loss and gain of knowledge ‘with knowledge’
- Pacific scholarship/research – policy development, leadership financing, planning, administration, research ‘influence decision-making’
Cross-cutting theme: Inclusion
Presenters are encouraged to weave the principle of ‘Inclusion’ across the 3 thematic areas.
Abstract deadline: 21 March 2025
For any inquiries regarding the call for papers, the submission process, or registration, please contact ioe@usp.ac.fj.