Instructor: Dharm Bhawuk
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Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 13 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Research on intercultural sensitivity: I theorized that people in a multicultural place like Hawaiʻi will be more sensitive, but compared to people who have travelled, they turned out not to be as sensitive, so there is a limitation to this . . . we are all ethnocentric, so even in a multicultural society you can still become ethnocentric.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 12 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Whenever a community had problems, people would get together and discuss what happened, and nobody left until everything was resolved . . . over the last twenty years I've done some research and writing also on Hawaiʻi . . . in one of our papers we discovered how . . . basic elements of culture . . . were used to basically take over this land . . . and then they lost their language, because we made that language illegal.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 11 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: The only time Hawaiʻi sort of officially surfaces is when I talk about there are indigenous management practices, and I always mention ho'oponopono, as a method that was used, and I don't even want to call it conflict resolution method because that's not what it is, it's making things pono, making things right, and goes actually beyond conflict resolution, but then I also like to tell my students 'and this is not practiced by any businesses in townʻ . . . if I really only focused on management practices being used, then none of the Hawaiian practices show up, except saying Aloha . . . and wearing Aloha attire.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 10 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: But those who don't do well on multiple choice, I do tell them you can write a ʻwhat I learnedʻ paper . . . if that's what you want to do . . . you can write about all these concepts . . . the reason I started doing what I learned was that if I say . . . you should take charge of your learning, then why am I testing you? . . . so this should be a skill audit for you: you can look at it ten years later . . . and see 'here are the skills I have learned, here are the skills I still have not learned.'Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 9 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Hawaii ʻis so unique, one of my students last semester was collecting data . . . in her Caucasian sample was the description of one of the participants as ʻhardcore localʻ . . . I thought she needs a variety of samples, this place is very deceptive, you just cannot just look at a person and say 'that's caucasian.ʻItem Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 8 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: One thing good about American education, and I see it because I am a foreigner, is that we literally empower professors to teach the way they want, what they want, when they want, how they want, so that is our strength . . . honestly, that syllabus I create, I never used a textbook . . . so from day one in '95 when I started doing it, I never used a textbook . . . and so some people said 'that sounds like a graduate course,' but why should we treat undergraduates like anything less/ . . .The British college education system doesn't allow the professor any flexibility: this is the course, you have to cover it . . . Our students write in 'you' from, all of them . . . I think we need an article in [student newspaper] Kā Leo, ʻStop writing in 'you' form,ʻ either write in ʻIʻ or ʻweʻ because ʻyouʻ is for instruction . . . you should use ʻIʻ or ʻwe,ʻ that personalizes.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 7 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Even today, I will ask an Assistant Professor not to do this, they should not teach Writing Intensive, they should just give a midterm and a final.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 6 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: I don't think we should teach anything without . . . a place focus . . . I was trained as an engineer and I didn't know anything about culture, I knew my culture, but when I came here and I met [a person] I suddenly said 'My God, every decision I made was culturally biased, culturally based . . . culture matters in everything we do . . . and that's where place comes in . . . place is a space that is culture, that's why I feel comfortable talking about place.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 5 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: Even a core course in management, organizational behavior, and I do tell people that . . . most people, they'll teach it without culture, but there is no organizational behavior without culture, so when I teach it there is culture from day one.Item Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 4 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bhawuk, Dharm; Henry, Jim; Bost, DawneBrief excerpt from interview: When we talk about culture, people will remember taking shoes off, not taking shoes off, and their own sort of experience making the mistake . . . I do stress the point about how culture is to be learned behaviorally . . . coming from Nepal I was not comfortable giving a lei to a woman and kissing her, and so I put myself into those situations, and now I feel comfortable. It's taken me 20 years, but the point is, I know of colleagues that still don't do it . . . but the other people . . . who come from the mainland, then they are able to bring their stories and their interactions in Hawaiʻi, about how they acted there and here, so place does come in when people bring their experience.