{"id":194396,"date":"2024-03-25T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=194396"},"modified":"2024-05-09T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T02:02:01","slug":"journey-to-expand-native-hawaiian-place-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/25\/journey-to-expand-native-hawaiian-place-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to expand Native Hawaiian Place of Learning begins for cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Cohort Kumukahi learns to work in Ka Papa Loʻi<\/span> o Kānewai, a taro patch overseen by UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Â鶹´«Ã½nuiākea<\/span> School of Hawaiian Knowledge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A team from the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa tasked with groundbreaking efforts to help advance the campus as a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning launched an immersive initiative with an inaugural cohort of executives, faculty, staff and students this spring. On March 18, the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office<\/a> (NHPoL<\/abbr> AO<\/abbr>) started a weeklong professional development series guiding more than 50 participants in activities focused around Native Hawaiian values and traditions such as mapping various moʻokūʻauhau<\/span> (genealogies that shape us) mālama ʻāina<\/span> (care for the land), oli (chants), and pilina (connection) circles.<\/p>\n

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Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Punihei Lipe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“If we want our students, the next generation, to be more connected to each other and to this place we have to model that and sometimes that means we have to go learn that and so we are growing the next generation by also growing the sources that nourish them,” said Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Punihei Lipe, director NHPoL<\/abbr> AO<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n