Educational Leadership in the Asia/Pacific Region
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The Faculty
David P. Ericson is professor and chair of the Dept. of Educational Foundations at UHM. He was formerly chair of the Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction and associate dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Education. He has served on the faculty at UCLA and Virginia Tech, and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from Syracuse University. He has authored over fifty articles and several books, and has done extensive consulting and research in Japan and Southeast Asia. His interests concern rationality and education, moral and political education, philosophy of the social sciences, and educational policy studies.
Victor Kobayashi is professor of education and dean of the UHM Outreach College. He has held leadership positions in national organizations of summer sessions, and has a scholarly interest in the ways educational communities communicate aesthetic, spiritual, and intellectual values, and how students learn them. He is author of several books and numerous articles and reviews on educational philosophy and comparative education.
Margie Maaka is associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies. Her teaching and research interests are in the interrelated areas of curriculum development, teacher education, literacy learning and teaching, and multicultural equity issues in education.
Hunter McEwan is professor of education in the Department of Educational Foundations. He received his doctorate from the University of Washington in 1987. He is the Editor of Educational Perspectives and currently teaches in the Master of Education in Teaching Program. His research interests center on curriculum theory and the philosophy of teaching.
Gay Garland Reed, professor of Educational Foundations at UHM, received her doctorate from the University of Virginia (1991). Her teaching, research and writing interests include values education in China, Korea and the US; cultural pluralism; identity issues; and social and cultural contexts of education.
Eileen H. Tamura is professor in the Curriculum Research and Development Group and a graduate faculty in Educational Foundations at UHM. Her publications have been on the history of education, with a particular focus on Hawai‘i, Asian American history and education, and teaching about the histories and cultures of Asia and the Pacific.