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The Master of Arts in Indigenous Language and Culture Education is designed for indigenous language and culture education practitioners such as teachers, administrators, and culture resource specialists. The college’s Kahuawaiola Indigenous Teacher Education Program, Hale Kuamoʻo Center for Hawaiian Language, P-12 laboratory school, baccalaureate, and graduate Hawaiian medium education programs and its consortium with the ‘Aha Pūnana Leo provide unique and valuable resources for understanding indigenous language and culture education.

The M.A. program in Indigenous Language and Culture Education currently offers only a Plan B practicing track, which requires students to be fluent in Hawaiian language and to simultaneously pursue the Kahuawaiola Indigenous Teacher’s Education Certificate. Hawaiian language use in the majority of Practicing Track courses provides students with the tools to deliver indigenous language and culture education at a high level. In the future, when the faculty is larger, the college intends to open a monitoring indigenous education track that will be open to students focusing on other indigenous languages.

Students accepted into the master’s program must have met requirements for study and fluency in the Hawaiian language and culture, which will be their point of reference throughout the program.

Mission

The mission of the M.A. program in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Education is to prepare indigenous educators as reflective practitioners and researchers, who are prepared to promote the further development of indigenous culture-based education.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Apply pedagogy appropriate to mauli ola / indigenous language medium and culture-based education.
• Describe, use and provide rationale of indigenous pedagogy and dispositions within P-12 classrooms.
• Communicate effectively in both academic and indigenous community environments.
• Access, analyze and reflect on indigenous knowledge, practices, literature and research findings.
• Design and conduct culturally appropriate, rigorous and ethical research that is responsive to issues inherent in indigenous language medium and culture-based education.
• Analyze global trends and perspectives that affect the implementation of indigenous language and culture education.