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Eliʻeli kūlana o ʻĀinaʻike.
Eliʻeli kūlana o ʻĀinaʻike.
Profound is the nature of ʻĀinaʻike.
[Refers to a person respected for the depth of his knowledge.]
What is an ABL Related Designation?
What is an ABL Related Designation?
‘Āina Based Learning Related designated courses are deemed ABL Related and integrate indigenous Native Hawaiian knowledge with some course content/assignments/project-based work through core contexts and hallmarks that foster meaningful connections through course contextualization.
The ABL Related designation is faculty/course specific and effective for five years. Upon approval, the Department Chair will be contacted to add the statement below to course comments in Banner. The faculty member should also add the statement to his/her syllabus.
ALPHA ### (CRN xxxxx) is ‘Āina Based Learning Related (ABL). ‘Āina Based Learning means that some content will be grounded in indigenous Native Hawaiian ways of knowing in community engagement, life values, and/or bridging past and present to guide the future.
Advantages of an ABL Related Course Designation (click to expand)
Advantages of an ABL Related Course Designation (click to expand)
The designation will help interested students identify ‘āina-based learning courses the College offers.
The designation will provide more supportive direction to faculty as to what ‘āina-based curriculum can include and be without being overly prescriptive.
The designation provides faculty the opportunity to have their work in ‘āina-based curriculum design acknowledged, formalized, and supported.
The designation will allow the college to better catalog, track, and measure the effectiveness of ‘āina-based learning and aid in strengthening culturally responsive curriculum for the College.
Kapi‘olani Community College would be the first community college in the system with such a designation, thereby strengthening the College’s position as a Native Hawaiian indigenous-serving institution.
Core Contexts, Hallmarks, and Student Learning Outcomes
Core Contexts, Hallmarks, and Student Learning Outcomes
An ABL Related designated class can use any disciplinary or multidisciplinary approach provided some course content reflects the integration of ‘ike kupuna or Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge through including two or more Core Contexts intersected with one or two Hallmarks, includes specific student learning outcomes to be added to the course syllabus.
CORE CONTEXTS
CORE CONTEXTS
Context in an ‘āina based learning course reflects core cultural concepts relevant to Hawaiian culture and makes learning content meaningful, relevant, and applicable. The core contexts also provide cultural foundations from which to work and teach content through.
An ABL Related course must include a minimum of one of the Core Contexts below.
Mālama ‘Āina
To care for the land, ocean, and environment.
‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i
Hawaiian Language
Mo‘olelo
Story, tale, myth, history, tradition, literature, legend,
Mo‘omeheu
Culture/ Cultural Practices/ Values
HALLMARKS
HALLMARKS
Context + Hallmark = Meaningful Connection.
Using Core Context as a foundation and Hallmark as framework, students make meaningful connections with content through achieving the student learning outcome connected to the Hallmark. The ABL Related course Hallmarks reflect the characteristics of Native Hawaiian learning and best practices of ‘āina based learning.
An ABL Related course must include a minimum of one of the Hallmarks below.
Hallmarks were influenced by “Culture-Based Education and Its Relationship to Student Outcomes” by Shawn Kana‘iaupuni, Brandon Ledward, ‘Umi Jensen
Wahi Noho Like o Ka Po‘e
Wahi Noho Like o Ka Po‘e
Hallmark: Community Engagement
Relying on community viewed as a Hawaiian sense of place and as an environment for learning, a class must include a major topic that connects ways Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge impacts and contributes to community engagement and a community’s ‘āina/wahi.
Student Learning Outcome
Identify ways Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge may impact community engagement and a communityʻs ‘āina/wahi.
Ola Pono
Ola Pono
Hallmark: Life Values
Synthesizing Native Hawaiian values with success strategies to explore deeper, more meaningful connections between culture and life skills connected to a specific place, a class must include a major topic on the exploration of ways Native Hawaiian values and cultural skills of specific place are related to academic, career, and personal success for community health and empowerment.
Student Learning Outcome
Identify Native Hawaiian values and cultural skills of a particular place that are related to college, work, and home life, and explain how these values and skills may be related to academic, career, and personal success.
I Ka Wā Ma Mua,
I Ka Wā Ma Mua,
Ka Wā Ma Hope
Ka Wā Ma Hope
Hallmark: Bridging Past and Present to Guide the Future
Synthesizing Native Hawaiian knowledge of the past with present-day perspectives, a class must include a major topic on the interconnections between mo‘olelo (historical events, legendary stories, proverbs and poetical sayings, etc.), historical figures, or cultural practices and the present-day equivalent, and how those interconnections guide the future.
Student Learning Outcome
Identify the interconnections between the mo‘olelo or indigenous Kanaka Maoli cultural practices of the past and present-day equivalents and describe how those interconnections guide the future.
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