Making Our Language Necessary: Expanding Access and Carving Spaces for Activity-Based, Intergenerational, Osmotic Language Learning

• In Event: Cultivating Equitable Education Systems: Reaffirming the Roles of Indigenous Politics, Pedagogy, and Praxis

Abstract

This paper consists of two vignettes that speak to our conceptualizations for educational equity in Hawaiʻi through language domain reclamation and expansion. Our research projects focus on expanding access and carving spaces for activity-based, intergenerational, and osmotic language learning that span primary through post-secondary schooling, ʻohana, and community learning environments. The first vignette centers Hawaiian language vocabulary for use in wood carving and how carving and language is being taught in post-secondary and community settings. The second vignette focuses on expanding Hawaiian language into the domain of mixed martial arts. Our paper responds to the following framing question for the 2022 AERA annual meeting: How can we strengthen connections between learning and engagement in community spaces, families, and schools?

Authors

• Adam Mahiʻai Dochin

• William M. Cook, Windward Community College

• Summer Maunakea, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa