Engendering cosmopolitanism on the ground through place-based and culturally relevant curriculum: the experiences of four teachers of World Literature in Hawai’i

– The European Conference on Arts, Design and Education 2022 Official Conference Proceedings

“…Gloria Ladson-Billings introduced a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy theoretical framework back in 1995 which has been adapted and extended by many researchers, including Shelly Brown-Jeffy and Jewel Cooper in 2011. Place-and community-based education in schools by Smith and Sobel (2010) proposed engaging students in communities to better confront and seek solutions for social and environmental problems, and Hawai'i authors and researchers have also explored this approach (Chappel, 2018;Goodyear-Ka'opua, 2013;Ledward & Takayama, 2009). Moll et al (1992) discussed how storytelling can encourage students to voice their own history, culture and personal knowledge to become experts of their own experiences and knowledge.…”