Exploring Educational Kipuka to Understand the Past, Illuminate the Present....

November 12, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Keoni Auditorium, Imin Conference Center Add to Calendar

Education Program Presents

Exploring Educational KÄ«puka to Understand the Past, Illuminate the Present, and Expand Our Vision for a More Peaceful Future

Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng
Assistant Professor College of Social Sciences
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Keoni Auditorium, Imin International Conference Center*

In this presentation, Maya will share her experiences with place-based educational initiatives, community service education, and peace education. She will present educational activities and strategies that can be used with any age to understand the past, illuminate the present, and deepen commitment to imaginative problem solving and community care. After Q and A in the second hour, Maya will facilitate audience reflection, discussion, and activity to explore local and global identities and learning competencies. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a life-long educator who specializes in peace and multicultural education. She conducts Ceeds of Peace workshops bringing together educators, community leaders, and families to support children and promote peacebuilding. Her nonprofit organization, Our Public School, connects schools with the communities around them. She has been a youth leader advocate and has taught in public, private, and charter high schools in New York and Hawaiʻi. She has taught multicultural education and social studies methods at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education. She briefly worked as an educational specialist with the East-West Center and continues to deeply value the educational exchange that the EWC facilitates. At present Maya is the Director of Community Outreach and Global Education for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

*Due to construction work, please enter on the mauka (mountain) side of the building.

We are firm believers in food-based learning. Excellent refreshments will be served. Please bring your own cup, plate/bowl and utensil. The public is invited to attend.


Event Sponsor
East-West Center, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Mary Hammond, 944-7766, hammondm@eastwestcenter.org

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