Curriculum Research Development Group

HIGHLIGHTS
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CRDG, in collaboration with the GoForBroke Foundation and the Hawai‘i Department of Education, is developing an interactive supplementary curriculum based on Japanese American soldiers’ experiences in World War II. These materials relate to the HIDOE character education curriculum.
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The Social Studies Section is exploring the development of a new high-school history text on East Asia.
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The Art Section is developing new courses in fiber arts, drawing, and sculpture and ceramics with a Hawai‘i, Asia, and Pacific focus.
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Year in Review 2003

FOCUS AREA 02.
HAWAII, ASIA, AND THE PACIFIC

Cross Currents
Cross Currents is a binational, bilingual digital web resource that covers the last 50 years of Japanese and United States history and the “cross currents” between the two countries. CRDG is developing the resource in collaboration with the UH College of Social Sciences and the Japan United States Friendship Commission. The Website provides an interactive database in both English and Japanese that can be accessed by students and teachers in both countries to foster extended dialogue and information exchange.

Excerpt from “Apples and International Friendship”
[In the years immediately following World War II], the image of bright red apples cheered up Japanese people with an immensely popular “Song of the Apple.” Half a century later, this experience led volunteer groups to plant apple trees, appropriately named “Apple of Hope” in areas devastated by the Great Kobe Earthquake in 1995. The Japanese volunteers plan a similar planting campaign in New York City for the surviving families of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Apples thus have a long history of crossing the Pacific carrying a spirit of hope and goodwill.
-The Cross Currents Website

 

 

 

 

 

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