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Luning, Rebecca J. I.; Yamauchi, Lois A. – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
Papahana Kaiapuni is a K-12 public school program in which the Hawaiian language is the medium of instruction. In 1987, parents and language activists started the program in response to the dwindling number of speakers that resulted from a nearly century-long ban on the indigenous language. This study examined how participation in this indigenous…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, School Activities, Immersion Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wilson, William H.; Kawai'ae'a, Keiki – Journal of American Indian Education, 2007
This article focuses on the historical development of Kahuawaiola Indigenous Teacher Education Program, the first teacher education program specifically addressing the needs of Hawaiian medium education. The authors distinguish a P-12 language revitalization education approach from those of transitional bilingual and foreign language immersion…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Benham, Maenette K. P. – Journal of American Indian Education, 2002
With an advisory committee of native community members, elders, educators, and students, the Center for Hawaiian Language and Cultural Studies has successfully founded, within a mainstream institution with strong religious foundations, a cultural center that teaches native values and language. The center creates cultural/educational projects that…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Maintenance, Hawaiians, Higher Education
Yamauchi, Lois A.; Ceppi, Andrea K.; Lau-Smith, Jo-Anne – 1998
Papahana Kaiapuni is a K-12 indigenous language immersion program in selected public schools in the State of Hawai'i. Instruction in Kaiapuni classrooms is conducted in the Hawaiian language. Program goals include students' development of a high level of proficiency in both Hawaiian and English. For nearly a century, policy banning the Hawaiian…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Hawaiian, Heritage Education
Slaughter, Helen B. – 1997
This study explored the functions of literacy in the Hawaiian language that may be realized in an indigenous language immersion program when the indigenous language is a second language with severely restricted use in the wider community. It also examined the connections between Hawaiian language use, the local culture in Hawaii, and development…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Hawaiian
Christian, Donna, Ed.; Genesee, Fred, Ed. – 2001
This edited volume contains studies demonstrating the linguistic, cultural, and academic contributions that bilingual approaches to education can make around the world. It is divided into three parts and 12 chapters. Chapter one, "Bilingual Education: Contexts and Programs," is an introduction by the editors. Part one, "Learning a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education