UPDATE as of 4/11/16: ‘Kapu Aloha: The Aloha ʻĀina Movement in Hawaiʻi’ presentation has been postponed to a later date.
Learn about indigenous education at UH West Oʻahu this spring. Indigenous education experts will discuss a variety of related topics during free presentations at the University this February, March, and April. All students, faculty, staff, and the community are encouraged to attend.
Pedagogy of Aloha
with Dr. Ku Kahakalau, Hawaii State Teachers Association members, and Hawaiʻi State Department of Education teachers
Saturday, Feb. 13, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in C225
Our education system is evolving. Come and explore significant ideas to help this transformation together with the change agents of Hawaiʻi including Dr. Ku Kahakalau, Hawaii State Teachers Association members, Kamehameha Schools, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, and Hawaiian Charter School teachers. Participants are asked to bring a potluck luck lunch.
Research within Hawaiian Communities
with Dr. Mary Oneha, Shelly Enos, and Hoʻoipo DeCambra
Wednesday, March 2, 1-4 p.m. in D254
Come and learn indigenous ways to approach Hawaiian communities with kamaʻaina health care practitioners, researchers and educators. Native communities are working to be more actively engaged in their own questions and research, and better prepare those who enter native communities with methodologies shaped within an ʻIke Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian knowledge) framework.
Kapu Aloha: The Aloha ʻĀina Movement in Hawaiʻi [This event has been postponed to a later date]
with Luana Busby-Neff and Pua Case
Kapu Aloha is a Hawaiian practice kin to the Sanskrit ahimsa. Peaceful non-violence becomes ‘reverence for aloha.’ Luana Busby-Neff and Pua Case will discuss the discipline of loving and how this works within the Aloha ʻĀina movement that includes 35 years of resistance and protection. Come listen to two wahine koa (women warriors) talk about their own lessons within the Protect Kahoʻolawe movement and Kū Kiaʻi Mauna (to stand firm in our protection of Mauna Kea) movement that helped bring forth the Kapu Aloha to a world audience.
For more information, contact UH West Oʻahu Director of Indigenous Education Dr. Manulani Meyer at manulani@hawaii.edu.