The voyaging Polynesian sea canoe "Hokulea" made a three-year circumnavigation. as shown in a documentary viewed by the Shellback Club. Julia Morton-Marr is involved with the activities of the Polynesian Voyaging Society through the International Holistic Tourism Education Centre - High School Peace Garden Team. Here are her comments on the connection. Navigation, the Polynesian Voyaging Society, and Hawaiian Charter Schools Comments by Dame Julia Morton-Marr B.Ed., Dip.T. Vice-President Education, Council on Global Issues As part of young people in Hawaii finding the United States education system complex, Charter Schools were established. In these schools, Hawaii students are taught their native traditions as well as the national US educational curriculum. This means that they have to work twice as hard as English speaking students. UNESCO Canada developed an international year for encouraging the use of a nation's mother-tongue. On the big island of Hawaii, I saw three evolutions of Hawaiian traditions. All of the schools would sing us in Hawaiian. There was no bad behavior in any of their schools that we saw. Peace and sustainability exists on the Hawaiian islands. One school had an Island laboratory, and an Ocean laboratory. As well as those two areas, they had a brand new school with shared facilities, that was totally technological, solar panels on all roofs, and open space learning. The land laboratory students learned how to grow their foods including pineapples, taro, and coconuts. Taro is prepared in many different ways. They also were propagating native plants and trees. The tech school permitted only electric or hybrid vehicles on their land. The Arts and Science Secondary School taught fish farming, and canoe carving from a full tree, which they slid down the mountain into the ocean when it was finished. They were learning all the traditional arts; basket weaving, thatching roofs, growing macadamia nuts, and traditional Hawaiian dances and languages. All of this was taught in addition to the US curriculum. Julia Morton-Marr was brought in by Phi Delta Kappa International to teach global sustainability education and peace education through her International School Peace Gardens. The charter schools connected interested students with the Polynesian Voyaging Society, with Jenna Ishii, Miki Tomita, and Nainoa Thompson, who with the Master Navigator Mau Piailug, reinvigorated navigation as one of the Hawaii educational tools. They built the Hokulea, a seaworthy double-hulled canoe. Hence the documentary "The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific". The film was restored and remastered in 2013. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. 24 March 2022 Useful links on the Hokulea, the Polynesian Voyaging Society, the International Holistic Tourism Education Centre, and the videos shown at this Shellback Club meeting. International Holistic Tourism Education Centre - High School Peace Garden Team (Miki Tomita and Nainoa Thompson, Jenii Ishii) http://www.ihtec.org/ISPGPages/ISPGHawaii.html Polynesian Voyaging Society | Home Page https://www.hokulea.com/ Polynesian Voyaging Society | Hōkūleʻa Returns Home https://www.hokulea.com/hokulea-returns-home/ Polynesian Voyaging Society | Worldwide Voyage Highlight Video https://www.hokulea.com/worldwide-voyage-highlights/ Worldwide Voyage | Hōkūleʻa Worldwide Voyage Recap Video https://youtu.be/s_5SL1sDXWU He Wa`a, He Honua – The Earth is Our Canoe https://youtu.be/E8dZnyxdgFw
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