Ola Ka Honua: Education as Ecosystem

Breakout Session - October 28, 2020 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

Symposium 2020 Fill 61 + Clip 65 + Fill 64 + Clip 68 + Fill 67 + Clip 71 + Fill 70 + Clip 74 + Fill 73 + Fill 76 + Clip 78 + Fill 77 + Clip 81 + Fill 80 + Clip 84 + Fill 83 + Fill 86 + Fill 87 + Fill 88 + Fill 90 + Fill 91 + Fill 92 + Fill 93 + Fill 95 + Fill 96 Mask Created with Sketch.
The metaphor – EDUCATION::ECOSYSTEM – provides us with a powerful, inspiring, and unnerving frame. Cheryl Lupenui (Hawai’i’s Nā Hopena A’o (HĀ) initiative) joins Gary Chapin to lead participants in a provocative conversation that not only illuminates the power of the ecosystem, but demonstrates it. This conversation, arising from Hawai’i’s work honoring the qualities and values of indigenous culture, will change what you see as possible in education.

Session Learning Outcomes:

  1. Explore our work through the frame of the ecosystem, drawing out its powerful and unnerving implications.
  2. Interrogate the assumptions that tie us to our old frame and traditional practices in education – and to challenge them.
  3. Witness how the original culture, language, and values of indigenous Hawaiian cultures are changing the education conversation there – and around the country.

Presenters:

  • Gary Chapin, Consultant, Educating for Good | @GaryChapin5
  • Cheryl Ka’uhane Lupenui, President and CEO, The Kohala Center | @KohalaCenter