This article reports on a preliminary study of five teachers who taught through the years of
ethnic conflict between 1998 and 2003 on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. It is
grounded in a belief in local experienced teachers' intimate understanding of their own
teaching contexts and their ability to persevere in difficult circumstances. The teachers
voices, like those of teachers elsewhere in the Pacific region, are barely audible amid a
cacophony of educational discourses2 authored by a variety of groups both within and …

This article reports on a preliminary study of five teachers who taught through the years of
ethnic conflict between 1998 and 2003 on Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands. It is grounded in
a belief inlocal experienced teachers' intimate understanding of their own teaching contexts
and their ability topersevere in difficult circumstances. The teachers' voices, like those of
teachers elsewhere in the Pacific region, are barely audible amid a cacophony of
educational discourses authored by a variety of groups both within and outside the Pacific …