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NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND COLLEGE SUCCESS
DOES CULTURE MATTER?
by
Lui Kealii Hokoana
____________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
December 2010
Copyright 2010 Lui Kealii Hokoana
Object Description
| Title | Native Hawaiians and college success: Does culture matter? |
| Author | Hokoana, Lui Kealii |
| Author email | lhokoana@hawaii.edu; lhokoana@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-10-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Brewer, Dominic J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Picus, Lawrence Oliveira, Judy |
| Abstract | Forty years ago, the United States led the world in innovation, driven by its successful educational system. Since that time the United States’ lead has slowly deteriorated. President Obama has called our low high school graduation and college persistence rates a prescription for economic failure. There is a leak in the educational pipeline in America. For this country’s minority students and indigenous populations, the pipeline is hemorrhaging at an accelerated rate.; The intent of this study is to investigate whether Native Hawaiian students at Windward Community College face the same types of barriers to college that other students do, and whether Native Hawaiians seek assistance from the same types of support networks. This study also asks whether Native Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian students believe that having a good understanding of their culture helps them be successful in college. The results of this study add to the limited literature on Native Hawaiians and college success.; The study found that Native Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians experience the same barriers to college success and go to similar networks for assistance. However, there were differences based on socio-economic status. The study also found that Native Hawaiians, unlike non-Hawaiians, believe that having a good understanding of their culture assists them to be successful in college, and that program services that integrate Native Hawaiian pedagogy assist them better than those that do not.; The findings of this study will assist policymakers and educational administrators to develop policies and procedures to improve Native Hawaiian college success. This study recommends that federal, state, and private institutions conduct studies on Native Hawaiian students in college to expand the literature on the topic. Lastly, this study recommends that Windward Community College expand its Hawaiian studies course offerings, create a program based on Hawaiian pedagogy for Native Hawaiians students, and evaluate the program to ascertain whether this type of program increases Native Hawaiian college success. |
| Keyword | Native Hawaiians |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Kaneohe |
| Geographic subject (state) | Hawaii |
| Coverage date | 2008/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3418 |
| Rights | Hokoana, Lui Kealii |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Hokoana-3954 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Hokoana-3954.pdf |
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| Full text | NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND COLLEGE SUCCESS DOES CULTURE MATTER? by Lui Kealii Hokoana ____________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION December 2010 Copyright 2010 Lui Kealii Hokoana |
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