Instructor: Mike DeMattos
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Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 21 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: What I've noticed in the class is that a lot of the students that come from other places begin to understand where they're from with a new lens . . . So despite the fact that they don't have a Native Hawaiian context or a local context, many of them, and in particular the very high performing students . . . find that there are aspects of where they are from that influence them as they are here. And that becomes very powerful not just for them, but also for the class, many of whom are not widely travelled. It creates an interesting exchange. Because of the place-based orientation we have here, it cues me in whenever I go some place else about how I need to be adaptive to their environment rather than demanding they adapt to me.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 20 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Last year, the senior class, we had the highest percentage of Native Hawaiians in our program second only to Hawaiʻinuiākea, at the University . . . Ninety percent identify as born and raised in Hawaii.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 19 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: [Naʻau] is that inner wisdom, that place . . . Westerners think of their mind [in their heads] . . . Native Hawaiians, your wisdom is in your gut. It's in that place that is your piko.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 18 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: What does local mean? It means location. It means place-based. All of us are local to some place. We define local a bit differently here because you have one population that is a First Nation people. They are indigenous, but you have other people who have made this home, and they've incorporated that notion of place to their identity, too. But, there isn't a place that isn't some place.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 17 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: I don't know about political correctness, but I know that sometimes they begin to attend to things because it appears that the instructor prescribed it rather than maybe leaving themselves open to what may be happening around them.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 16 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Sometimes gut is a very simple way of saying that I've become sensitive to my environment and I pick up things that others miss, and I may call it my gut. As an instructor it gets developed, too, when you see a student, and you're reading their work, and you're struggling to figure out what's working or what's not working, but you see it, or you feel it. You see that this student is really close to producing something that is going to shake my world a little bit.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 15 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Students that are particularly strong in areas inevitably comment about what they see as deficiencies if they line up positively with their strengths . . . But that's where having three reviewers comes in handy . . . But, sometimes it can be hard when they have the same weakness because you don't see it. All of our senses work on difference.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 14 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: A student goes out to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Center . . . that agency, in that community, is absolutely unique. For many non-profit agencies, despite their want and desire to extend and reach other communities or our want and desire to replicate services in other places, they are not necessarily franchisable. It's not a good way to think about it . . . That program typically develops organically within a particular community to serve a particular population, and the students grasp that relatively quickly. They have to. You couldn't have Waianae Coast Comprehensive Center someplace else and have it be the same thing.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 13 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: I would much rather have someone who's oceanic and deep and rich in their thinking who is struggling with grammar and syntax and those types of things . . . than somebody who's a puddle, who is perfect in the way they lay out [their writing].Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Social Work, clip 12 of 21(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; DeMattos, Mike; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: I want [the students] to learn to both accept and dispute what they're finding. Because I want them to do that with themselves, but I want them to do that also with stuff that they are encountering outside of themselves.
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