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"We Are Our History": Reviewing the History of Education in Hawai'i and Oceania
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Taira, Derek – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
There is a "world of difference," anthropologist Epeli Hau'ofa argued, "between viewing the Pacific as 'islands in a far sea' and as 'a sea of islands.'" The distinction between both perspectives, he explained, is exemplified in the two names used for the region: Pacific Islands and Oceania. The former represents a colonial…
Descriptors: Educational History, Indigenous Populations, Christianity, Residential Schools