{"id":61708,"date":"2017-06-22T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=61708"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T01:05:10","slug":"maaka-aera-executive-comittee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/22\/maaka-aera-executive-comittee\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Education professor elected to National Research Association Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_61714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61714\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-coe-margaret-maaka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61714\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Maaka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/directory\/?person=marg\">Margaret Maaka<\/a><\/strong>, a professor in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa College of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/academics\/curriculum-studies\">Department of Curriculum Studies<\/a>, was elected executive committee chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aera.net\/\">American Educational Research Association<\/a> (AERA) Special Interest Groups (SIGs). In addition to this office, Maaka will serve as a member of the <abbr>AERA<\/abbr> council for three years.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Education<\/a> since 1986, Maaka&#8217;s research areas include educational psychology, language and cognitive development, multiliteracies, educational policy, research methods and indigenous development and advancement.<\/p>\n<p>Maaka has held various offices within <abbr>AERA<\/abbr> during her 28-year membership. In 2000, she joined Professors Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Graham Hingangaroa Smith and Huia Jahnke to form the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Special Interest Group that provides a forum for researchers interested in studying indigenous knowledge and practices in the Pacific and Pacific Rim.<\/p>\n<h2>More about the American Educational Research Association<\/h2>\n<p>The <abbr>SIGs<\/abbr> provide a forum within <abbr>AERA<\/abbr> for members with common research interests to collaborate. There are more than 150 <abbr>SIGs<\/abbr>, overseen by the executive committee, and the <abbr>AERA<\/abbr> council serves as the legislative and policy body.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1916, <abbr>AERA<\/abbr> is comprised of more than 25,000 members representing 85+ countries. Members are university faculty, researchers, graduate students and other distinguished professionals with diverse expertise in education research. They work in a range of settings from universities and other academic institutions to research institutes, federal and state agencies, school systems, testing companies and nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s Margaret Maaka was elected the executive cmmittee chair of the American Educational Research Association: Special Interest Groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[95,125,598,9],"class_list":["post-61708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-education","tag-curriculum-research-and-development-group","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61708"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77111,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61708\/revisions\/77111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}