REMAKING, REWEAVING AND INDIGENIZING CURRICULUM: LESSONS FROM AN AMERICAN SAMOA HEAD START PROGRAM

• Authors: Henward Allison , Tauaa Mene , Turituri Ronald
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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In this paper, we focus on how indigenous Head Start teachers in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the US located in the South Pacific negotiated imported policy and curricular models that were not always congruent with local, indigenous approaches to educating young children. Here we place our focus on the negotiation of curriculum within these spaces and in doing so, show that through the reweaving of curriculum, western discourses and influences from the US were altered. We conclude with implications for US territories and other contested spaces across the globe.

Keywords

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CURRICULUM; PRESCHOOL; GLOBALIZATION; AMERICAN SAMOA

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33 – 55

Contributors

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Henward Allison

• Pennsylvania State University, Core Faculty, Comparative & International Education Department, 180 Chambers Building, University Park PA 16802, USA

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Tauaa Mene

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Turituri Ronald

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/jped-2019-0002