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The Seeds We Planted : Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School /
In 1999, the author was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. This book tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In 1999, the author was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. This book tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination and the U.S. charter school movement, revealing a critical tension: the successes of a school celebrating indigenous culture are measured by the standards of settler colonialism. How, the author asks, do indigenous peoples use schooling to maintain and transform a common sense of purpose and interconnection of nationhood in the face of forces of imperialism and colonialism? What roles do race, gender, and place play in these processes? Her book, with its descriptive portrait of indigenous education in one community, offers practical answers steeped in the remarkable - and largely suppressed - history of Hawaiian popular learning and literacy. This uniquely Hawaiian experience addresses broader concerns about what it means to enact indigenous cultural-political resurgence while working within and against settler colonial structures. Ultimately, the book shows that indigenous education can foster collective renewal and continuity. -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780816689088 |