About Us

Education Projects International recognises that in the modern world, education needs to use learners’ community values and cultures as a foundation as learners grow to become responsible global citizens. By building a strong local identity that is at the same time world-embracing in its vision, Education Projects International helps learners develop the skills needed to engage with strength and wisdom in our increasingly globalised environment.

Education Projects International supports

Education projects in traditional and indigenous societies,
Integration of traditional knowledge into the curriculum,
The education of migrant and “third culture kids”,
Project-based approaches to interdisciplinary learning,
Environmental education inclusion across school curricula,
Bilingual and bicultural projects and literature,
Cross-cultural training,
Second language learning projects.

our team

Our team & associated colleagues work in English, Portuguese, German, Tok Pisin & Bislama.

Dr Craig Alan Volker has written extensively about Papua New Guinean languages and is keenly interested in the use of local languages in modern contexts.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor in The Cairns Institute of James Cook University in Queensland, Australia and was formerly Professor of Languages at Gifu Shōtoku Gakuen University in Japan and Professor of Linguistic Research at Divine Word University in Madang, Papua New Guinea.

He has been a visiting professor in the Post-Colonial Linguistics Unit at the University of Bremen, a Jakob Függer Visiting Professor at the University of Augsburg, and a visiting instructor of Tok Pisin at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Craig Alan lives in Madina Village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, where he is a Wangpaang (Assistant Talking Chief) of the Moxomaraba (Sea Eagle) clan, of the Nalik people.

Cláudio da Silva is a social educator with a particular interest in the integration of students' local culture and environment into the school curriculum. He recently completed a masters program in social education, development and local dynamics (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and is now enrolled in an education PhD program at the University of Porto, Portugal.

He studied biology at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil and education in a special Japanese-Brazilian binational pro- gram of the Federal University of Mato Grosso.

After working as an environmental education co-ordinator in Brazil, he came to Japan in 2005, working as a teacher first at the Escola Comunitária Paulo Freire in Toyota and then until 2014 at the Escola Brasileira Professor Kawase in Gifu Prefecture.

His current research, deals with the integration of indigenous and scientific knowledge in indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea.