Teaching Storytelling & Values in Hawaii
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information, imparting values, and teaching life strategies.
At Kamehameha Schools Hawaiian native students are encouraged to "talk
story" using digital media and their experiences around key cultural
values. Student share their digital stories as part of the iMuaMovie
Festival every year featuring short films created by students at
Kamehameha campuses on Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii.
The Hawaiian values include:
1) aloha (love, afffection, compassion, sympathy)
2) 'imi na'auao (to seek enlightment, wisdom, education)
3) malama (to care for, to protect, to maintain, to attend to)
4) 'ike pono ("ike" to know, to see, to feel, to understand, to
comprehend, to recognize; "pono" righteous, appropriate,
moral, goodness, proper, fair)
5) kuleana (privilege, responsibility, area of responsibility)
6) ho' omau (to persevere, to perpetuate, to continue)
7) ha' aha'a (humility, humbleness, modesty
Storytelling is a form of teaching. To teach others about a cultural
value means the student must understand and begin to internalize the
value. If you were going to help students make short films about these
values, where would you begin? Please share your thoughts on helping
students become powerful storytellers through film about values.
How would you teach students to be aware of values?
How would you teach students to share their own experiences or
understanding of these values through storytelling?
How would ask students to share these stories in a short film?
What would make the digital story "powerful" for the audience?
How will your students get feedback from the audience about the impact
of their story?
How can making a digital story about a value help students internalize
that value?
Please respond to one or all of these questions in a new message.
Aloha!