Aloha Pedagogy: Weaving Aho as Ways of Knowing
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https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29771Keywords:
Indigenous pedagogy, Kānaka Maoli, braiding methodology, communicationAbstract
This article braids Native Hawaiian ontology, Indigenous approaches to the critical study of education, and the author’s own reflections to advance a decolonizing approach to communication. This entails divesting from the Western assumption of mind-body dualism in favor of privileging a form of embodied knowledge that includes feelings, the senses, and intuition through artistic forms such as hula, oli (chanting), and storytelling.
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