Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Upper Divison English, clip 12 of 12
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2015
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Brief excerpt from interview: Where you grow up, the stories of that place, you can relate to the stories of other places. There's this whole issue about kamaʻāina to a place and having the kuleana to write about that place. So why am I, someone from Hokulani, writing about Waiʻanae? My connection I explain this way in my chapter, and that is: I grew up on the slopes of Haleakalā where we grew up with the Maui stories thinking that they were our island stories... When I went to a play about Maui and I found out there was a struggle in Waiʻanae to protect the birthplace of Maui in Lualualei where there's a puʻu called Puʻuheleakalā, I could see the connection. I felt that kind of connectedness through the moʻolelo and that makes sense because Maui is a navigator, and he connects the different places in the Pacific... What I'm also trying to do in my story is foreground the kūpuna story... the work they did to protect this place... to honor their work... not about my research, but what I learned from what they did. Through these stories, through these moʻolelo, we can gain an insight into what's happening in other places. People who live in mountains connect through those experiences... I've heard people from Korea talking about Diamond Mountain and comparing the Diamond mountains to the mountains in Hawaiʻi and feeling that there is a kind of connectedness, not one that's appropriating place for their own purposes, but they can understand what it's like to live on a mountain or to live on an island. At English 100 they do beautiful work. It's really kind of astonishing... I've seen them really kind of engaging in more creative kind of critiques of writing and different kinds of places. [Writing about a childhood experience of place] became the kernel for a different kind of writing for [one pre-med student], one that he was able to explore different dimensions to writing about [place].
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This 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 discussing culture and growing up on Maui.
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place-based writing, writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, Writing Intensive courses, scholarship of teaching and learning, writing pedagogy, general education requirements, sense of place, identity, educational context, kind of learning, growing up, stories of place, relations to other stories, relations to other places, kamaaina, kuleana, writing about place, hokulani, waianae, haleakala, maui, birthplace of maui, lualualei, puuheleakala, connectedness, across the pacific, pacific peoples, navigators, maui as navigator, connecting the pacific, kupuna, struggle, protecting place, honoring kupuna, stories, korea, diamond mountains, hawaii, living on a mountain, living on an island, english 100, creative writing, creative critiques, different kinds of writing, writing as exploration, childhood experiences, stories of place, maui the demigod, commonplace, island living, mountain living, first-year composition, personal narrative, memories
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Fujikane, Candace. 'Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Upper Divison English, clip 12 of 12.' Interview with Jim Henry. Scholarspace. Sep. 2015. Web.
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Duration: 00:03:56
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English 470: Studies in Asia-Pacific Literature (Mapping the Literatures of Hawaii)
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