CSI Hawaii - Culture and Science
Our Approach
CSI Hawaii, Culture and Science Integration Hawaii, is a uniquely Hawaiian approach to learning by focusing on a specific cultural practice and exploring common intersections with science.
The pilot model for this CSI Hawaii learning experience focuses on exploration and the particular skill set Oceanic navigators possessed that allowed them to "wayfind" between distant islands.
The object is to have the learner arrive at knowing and understanding through an integrated experience that connects indigenous and western paradigms.
Students are taught through a process that travels a circular path of learning through the practices of:
| Ho’olohe (to listen) | Ho’opili (to experience) | Ho’ohana (to use) | Ho’opuka (to apply) |
The ‘Imiloa IKE (Indigenous Knowing & Experience education team) in conjunction with a consortium of voyaging organizations conducts periodic workshops for educators and aspiring navigators that utilize custom made tools and learning modules that develop the seven essential skills of the practicing wayfinder:
Wayfinding Skills Path
- Star Compass
- Reference Course Line
- Canoe Compass
- Direction
- Position
- Hand Calibration
- Landfall Clues
