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Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper is drawn from research undertaken from 2009 to 2013 as part of a project, involving girls and women from Malaita in the Solomon Islands. The research identifies cultural elements that serve as barriers to girls and women wanting to participate in community leadership or mentoring roles. The methodology implemented for the research project was ethnographic and uses stories from observations, individual interviews and focus groups. My role as an outsider with ‘insider knowledge’ played a significant role in the ethnographic research process and data collection phase, demonstrating the significance of the wantok system, its reach and how it can be used to gain access, get ahead and support families. This paper the wantok system is used within communities of the Solomon Islands and how this system advantaged the research process and the data collection phase by enabling the researcher to freely access stories specific to the research project.
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Ethnography and Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles that illuminate educational practices through empirical methodologies, which prioritise the experiences and perspectives of those involved. The journal is open to a wide range of ethnographic research that emanates from the perspectives of sociology, linguistics, history, psychology and general educational studies as well as anthropology. The journal’s priority is to support ethnographic research that involves long-term engagement with those studied in order to understand their cultures, uses multiple methods of generating data, and recognises the centrality of the researcher in the research process. The journal welcomes substantive and methodological articles that seek to explicate and challenge the effects of educational policies and practices; interrogate and develop theories about educational structures, policies and experiences; highlight the agency of educational actors; and provide accounts of how the everyday practices of those engaged in education are instrumental in social reproduction.
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