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The Pacific Circle Consortium (PCC) cordially invites you to its 32nd annual conference to be held in Apia, Samoa,
June 23-27, 2008, hosted by the Faculty of Education of the National University of Samoa.

Talofa, Members and Friends of the Pacific Circle Consortium,
The Faculty of Education of the National University of Samoa (NUS) is proud to host the 2008 PCC conference and wishes to extend a warm invitation to all interested in
sharing, debating, exploring, examining, implementing ... educational trends, theories, practices and change.

The conference theme is ‘Saili Matagi, The Winds of Educational Change’. From where, and how, and for whom are the winds of educational change being harnessed?

Welcome, Afio mai, Haere mai, Maliu mai, Fakaalofalahi atu, Gid’day, Malo lelei, Bula, Kiaorana,

We have commissioned five experts in the field to write papers that explore this conference theme. The papers will be posted on this web site and we invite you to read
them all and be prepared to participate in the rich discussions that will be the focus of this year’s PCC conference. Each of the three days of the conference will be
focused on one of three areas of education and related issues that help explicate the overall theme. The presenter of that day’s paper will summarize key points and
engage participants in discussion. To facilitate that format, we invite you to write papers that are related to the theme and comment on the commissioned papers. By
doing so, we hope to stimulate an exciting discussion during the conference and produce a related set of papers in the PCC peer-reviewed journal Pacific-Asian
Education. Further, we hope this conference will stimulate new projects in education among our PCC members. We look forward to collaborating with you all to produce a
deep, thoughtful work that can guide our endeavors for the next decade.