The World and All the Things upon It
The World and All the Things upon It
Geography Education and Textbooks in Hawai‘i, 1831–1878
Chapter 4 examines global geography as it was taught in the schools and presented in Hawaiian-language textbooks. These textbooks were riven with contradictions. As translations from American volumes, they echoed their source texts’ racism and colonialism. Yet because Native Hawaiians’ skills were needed to prepare the translations, they also reflected indigenous perspectives that rendered Hawai‘i as central rather than peripheral.
Keywords: global geography, textbooks, pedagogy, racism and colonialism, politics of translation, Eurocentrism
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