Chair: Joseph Haldane
Panellists: Curtis Ho & Ted O’Neill
This interdisciplinary panel will discuss how we educate for positive change, striking a balance between the need to challenge while also respect and preserve local and indigenous cultures and their languages. The panelists will draw on their backgrounds in general education, language learning, and educational technology to discuss how policymakers and teachers deal with the often conflicting goals and inherent difficulties involved in educating for change by drawing on examples from both the local Hawaiian experience, as well as comparing and contrasting from different educational systems from around the world.
This panel will include extracts from “The Greatest Gift”, a short documentary produced by IAFOR in association with the HOPE International Development Agency, Japan and which features the Pamulaan Center for Indigenous Peoples Education in Davao, Philippines. The Pamulaan Center’s mission is focused on providing indigenous youth with scholarships to university with the expectation that those recipients return to their communities and guide the next generation of IP youth thus creating a sustainable education cycle.
