Passion I have. What I need is to practice my elevator speeches, those short informative program synopses that can be done in the time it takes to ride the elevator. Of course it will take me 4 posts.
Post 1: The honua: building on solid ground
Post 1: The honua: building on solid ground
The Alana culture-based education
course is graphically depicted by the above logic model. The honua (green box), the earth,
represents the mo'okūauhau,
the geneology of this program that informs and guides the building of this
course. Dr. Shawn Kanaʻiaupuni and her team lay the
foundation for culture-based education (CBE) modeling and immersion within the course. Dr. Walter
Kahumoku and Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa, in consultation with Dr. Bernice McCarthy (4Mat)
bring to the geneology the work of moenahā, a curriculum planning concept based
on the way kupuna taught. Makawalu, literally eight eyes, is a concept
practiced by Kaʻimipono Kaiwi and her teachers at Kamehameha Kapālama to
encourage multiple perspectives in the standards-based curriculum. It is a
challenge to content-area teachers to deliver their own content area curriculum
through a Hawaiian lens. The National Writing Project (NWP) is a professional
development program that is built on the premise of teachers teaching teachers
as a self-empowering and sustainable model for furthering the effective
practices of teaching writing in all classrooms. Finally, the geneology of this program, and the
strength of the base of this hale comes from the teachers who come into this
program with their own moʻokūauhau and their own content-area and classroom
skills. In the philosophy of ʻike, Hawaiian knowledge, the concept of nā piko
ʻekolu pays homage to our multiple sources of knowing. The first piko located on your head is the
knowledge that comes from the kupuna. This first piko is the source for the
honua.
The
honua informs the building of the kahua, the platform of the house and the
currents that run through all other interventions.
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