UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement (fwd link)

[Keola Donaghy]

One of the aspects of the program not mentioned in this article or  
really elsewhere has been the extensive use of video and audio  
conferencing to bring a very broad indigenous, and not just Hawaiian,  
perspective to the program. This included two classes by Bill Demmert  
at Western Washington delivered to our students in Hilo a few years  
ago, as well as others at U of Arizona and in Alaska. This past  
semester, we had a class which originated in Hilo and taught by Dr.  
Noelani Iokepa-Guerrero and which was delivered to students in  
Aotearoa, Alaska, Wisconsin, Arizona as well as Hawai‘i students on  
the islands of Moloka‘i and Kaua‘i. Students in our MA and Ph.d.  
programs were able to count the classes toward our programs, and  
students at the other institutions did the same for those schools.  
Strength in numbers and diversity. I've been planning to write a short  
article on this most recent class, I'll post it here when I do.

Keola

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Keola Donaghy
Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies
Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu
University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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On 18 Kek. 2008, at 6:16 AM, phil cash cash wrote:

> Wouldn't it be swell if we all could establish a doctoral program  
> supporting our language(s)?  A feel good thought for today...
>
> Phil
> UofA
>
> Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca>:
>
> > Thanks Phil...that is really great news to receive. I have been
> > watching what the Hawaiian and Maori peoples have been doing for  
> some
> > time.
> > -------
> > wahjeh
> > rolland nadjiwon
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: phil cash cash
> > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:51 AM
> > Subject: [ILAT] UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall
> > commencement (fwd link)
> >
> >
> > UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement
> >
> > University of Hawaii at Hilo
> > Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
> > Director Media Relations
> > Posted: December 16, 2008
> >
> > A Maori educator from New Zealand will become the first recipient
> > of a doctoral
> > degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
> >
> > Katarina Edmonds will receive the Ph.D. in Hawaiian and Indigenous
> > Language and
> > Culture Revitalization awarded by Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani  
> College of
> > Hawaiian Language. Edmonds will receive her degree in absentia  
> during fall
> > commencement, scheduled for Saturday, December 20, beginning at
> > 9:00 a.m. in
> > the UH Hilo New Gym.
> >
> > A member of the Te Whanau a Apanui and Rutaia tribes, Edmonds has
> > an extensive
> > background in language and cultural education dating back to 1980.
> > She earned
> > her undergraduate degrees in education and Maori and a master’s in  
> applied
> > linguistics from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New  
> Zealand. After
> > eight years of teaching in mainstream, English medium schools,
> > Edmonds became
> > involved in Maori immersion education and discovered the value of  
> teaching
> > through the Maori language. Subsequently, Edmonds returned to
> > Waikato to earn a
> > graduate degree in bilingual education and to train Maori immersion
> > teachers in
> > the University’s teacher education program.
> >
> > Access full article below:
> > http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20081216143052
>





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