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Field Research (2023)
— College of Education/University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The epistemic struggle with the unwritten past:
This research project examines how Hawai‘i’s past is represented in history education across the islands. Employing a qualitative content analysis of textbooks and teaching materials, it investigates the demands placed on students, the historical imagery conveyed, and the treatment of unwritten histories. These findings are triangulated with qualitative interviews conducted with history teachers in private and Hawaiian charter schools, thereby linking the analysis more directly to classroom practice. The study further engages with tensions between different epistemologies, including teachers’ conceptualizations of history, mo‘olelo, historical popular culture, and Western historical theories. Ultimately, it seeks to develop strategies for a decolonized history education in Hawai‘i, offering insights that may also be relevant to other contexts in which Western and Indigenous perspectives on the past intersect.Field Research (2024)
— School of Curriculum and Pedagogy/University of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau
The stay was intended to network with scholars who are also interested in Indigenous approaches to the past in history education.The stay was further complemented by an extensive literature review and consultations with representatives from the Department of Education, scholars in the field of history, and specialists in teacher training.Field Research (2024)
— School of Māori Knowledge/Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa-Massey University
The stay was intended to network with scholars who are also interested in Indigenous approaches to the past in history education.The stay was further complemented by an extensive literature review and consultations with representatives from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Te Pūtahi-a-Toi. |
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