College of Education faculty member chosen for scholar program

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007

HONOLULU - UH Mānoa College of Education associate professor Margaret Maaka is one of 30 scholars designated to the Agenda for Education in a Democracy (AED) Scholar program.

Maaka is currently working on establishing Hoʻokulāiwi: ʻAha Hoʻonaʻauao ʻŌiwi (Center for Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Education) at the Mānoa campus, to provide a graduate degree program of study in Hawaiian teacher education and curriculum research in order to raise the school achievement of Native Hawaiians.

Her work began as a project, which was part of a Kellogg grant, looking at teacher education for diverse communities.

"The focus of the project was the recruitment and retention of teachers in diverse communities," Maaka said. "Since then, I have been working to institutionalize positions in higher education and to get the funding so that when grants run out, we can sustain the work."

For brief descriptions of the AED Scholars‘ current work, go to the IEI web page: www.ieiseattle.org.

For more information about the UH Mānoa College of Education, visit www.hawaii.edu/coe.

For more information, visit: http://www.ieiseattle.org