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The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School

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Description for The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School Paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.


In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua 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. The Seeds We Planted 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, Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua asks, does an indigenous people use schooling to maintain and transform a common sense of purpose and ... Read more


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 Seeds We Planted shows that indigenous education can foster collective renewal and continuity.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816680481
SKU
V9780816680481
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Noelani Goodyear-Ka´opua
Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua is associate professor of political science at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She was a cofounder of the Hālau Kū Māna public charter school and served as a teacher, administrator, and board member at various times during the school's first decade.

Reviews for The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School
"Like the stone walls of the ancient irrigation ditches rebuilt by the Halau Ku Mana Native Hawaiian Charter School that Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua writes of, this book channels the pain, struggle, hope, and mana (power and authority) of the Hawaiian people into a place of life and growth. Drawing deftly upon Native studies, history, anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and education, ... Read more

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