Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Upper Divison English, clip 10 of 12

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dc.contributor.authorPlace-based WAC/WID Hui
dc.contributor.intervieweeFujikane, Candace
dc.contributor.interviewerHenry, Jim
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-02T19:41:55Z
dc.date.available2015-12-02T19:41:55Z
dc.date.created2014-05-14
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionThis item includes a segment of an an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Upper Divison English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2014 and in this clip the interviewee is describing potential difficulties faced by students from the continental US.
dc.description.abstractBrief excerpt from interview: It's a struggle for [continental U.S.] students, because they have to work harder at the idea of growing aloha ʻāina. [One such student, responding to a cartographic problem, said] 'a lot of the moʻolelo we study in class are faith-based. They're religious, based on a belief system that I cannot ascribe to... so I've been struggling up until this point to understand how to maintain my own belief system, which is I don't believe in religion, and how to reconcile that with these moʻolelo because I want to support Hawaiians. But I don't feel like I can fully support them until I find a way to reconcile this kind of disjuncture between my belief that religion is problematic and the ways that Hawaiian independence is based on these moʻolelo.' [Students] come up with very insightful kinds of questions. She was looking for that spirituality, but felt embarrassed about writing about it. She was saying 'I don't understand how people can say they're born from land,' so that was [her] bottom line. So we had a lot of discussion about that. [A native Hawaiian practitioner explained:] 'How do we learn the formula for pi? How do we learn geometry? We learn it by looking at nature... Nature is our first teacher.' You can have different levels of belief, but in this class, I want us to accept all of them as being true. All of them. Even if they don't agree with your own personal beliefs, we can say these are all true, and we find the composite of all of these stories and where they intersect and where they don't. You have to expand your mind to accept paradoxes.
dc.format.extentDuration: 00:03:08
dc.identifier.citationFujikane, Candace. 'Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Upper Divison English, clip 10 of 12.' Interview with Jim Henry. Scholarspace. Sep. 2015. Web.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/37962
dc.languageeng
dc.relation.ispartofEnglish 470: Studies in Asia-Pacific Literature (Mapping the Literatures of Hawaii)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectplace-based writing
dc.subjectwriting across the curriculum
dc.subjectwriting in the disciplines
dc.subjectWriting Intensive courses
dc.subjectscholarship of teaching and learning
dc.subjectwriting pedagogy
dc.subjectgeneral education requirements
dc.subjecteducational context
dc.subjectidentity
dc.subjectsocialization
dc.subjectcontinental u.s.
dc.subjectstudents from the continent
dc.subjectaloha aina
dc.subjectstudent engagement
dc.subjectcartographic problems
dc.subjectsystems of belief
dc.subjectmoolelo
dc.subjectreligion
dc.subjecthawaiian independence
dc.subjectstudent-generated questions
dc.subjectinterpretation
dc.subjecthow literally do we interpret moolelo
dc.subjectnature
dc.subjectnature as first teacher
dc.subjectgeometry
dc.subjectpi
dc.subjectnative hawaiian practitioners
dc.subjectspirituality
dc.subjectlevels of belief
dc.subjectmultiple truths
dc.subjectstudent beliefs
dc.subjectcomparative literature
dc.subjectcomparing folklore
dc.subjectexpanding student perspectives
dc.subjectparadoxes
dc.subjectcontinental students
dc.subjectbelief system
dc.subjectreligion
dc.subjectatheism
dc.subjectagnosticism
dc.subjectcultural beliefs
dc.subjectnarrative truth
dc.subjectnarrative paradox
dc.titleInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Upper Divison English, clip 10 of 12
dc.typeInterview
dc.type.dcmiMoving Image

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