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Culture-based Education Research Resources

Culture-based education (CBE), and more specifically Hawaiian culture-based education (HCBE), is a key lever to achieving Kamehameha School’s (KS) Vision 2040 of a thriving lāhui. We believe that HCBE instills confidence and resiliency in Native Hawaiian learners to improve the well-being of the lāhui. An HCBE system engages Native Hawaiian learners to reach positive socio-emotional and academic outcomes. For that reason, KS is committed to creating and promoting an HCBE system where all students, Native Hawaiian learners in particular, will thrive and reach their full potential.

What is Culture-Based Education?

CBE is grounded in the foundational values, norms, knowledge, beliefs, practices, experiences, and language of a(n indigenous) culture. It “places significance on Native language; place-based, and experiential learning, cultural identity; holistic well-being; and personal connections and belonging to family, community, and ancestors” (Alcantara, Keahiolalo, and Peirce, 2016). The literature base for CBE describes five basic elements that comprise this approach: Language, Family & Community, Context, Content, and Data & Accountability.

What is Hawaiian Culture-Based Education?

In HCBE, the five elements of CBE are applied specifically from a Native Hawaiian perspective. For example, HCBE practitioners strive to incorporate ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) in the classroom and involve family and community in the development of Hawaiian-centered curricula relevant to learners. By sustaining the values, traditions, and language of Hawaiʻi through HCBE, we hope to see Native Hawaiians grow in success and contribute to their communities both locally and globally.

Culture-Based Education Resource Collection

This HCBE collection includes exclusively research-focused resources that explore CBE and HCBE in varying contexts. Users should make their own assessments of the quality of the data from these sources. It is our hope that these resources will support your journey to ʻimi naʻauao, or seek wisdom, that would strengthen the lāhui.

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Title	Author(s)	Year	Age band
Mohala i ka wai: Cultural Advantage as a Framework for Indigenous Culture-Based Education and Student Outcomes	Shawn M. Kanaiaupuni, Brandon Ledward, and Nolan Malone	2017	K-12
Use of Native Language and Culture (NLC) in Elementary and Middle School Instruction as a Predictor of Mathematics Achievement	Mark J. Van Ryzin and Claudia G. Vincent	2017	K-12
From a Place Deep Inside: Culturally Appropriate Curriculum as the Emodiment of Navajo-ness in Classroom Pedagogy	Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz	2007	General
Family Involvement in a Hawaiian Language Immersion Program	Lois A. Yamauchi, Jo-Anne Lau-Smith, and Rebecca J.I. Luning	2008	K-12
Making Meaning: Connecting School to Hawaiian Students' Lives	Lois A. Yamauchi, Tasha R. Wyatt, and Alice H. Taum	2005	K-12
Ho‘omau i nā ōpio: Field-test findings of the nā ‘ōpio: Youth development and assessment survey	Katherine Tibbets, Shawna Medeiros, and Jacqueline Ng-Osorio	2009	K-12
Hoʻomau i nā ʻŌpio Field-Test Findings from the 2008 Pilot-Test of the Nā ʻŌpio Youth Development and Assests Survey	Katherine Tibbets and Shawna Medeiros	2008	K-12
Education with Aloha and Student Assets	Katherine Tibbets, Kū Kahakalau, and Zanette Johnson	2007	K-12
Education and Native Hawaiian Children: Revisiting KEEP	Roland G. Tharp, Cathie Jordan, Gisela E. Speidel, Kathryn Hu-Pei Au, Thomas W. Klein, Roderick P. Calkin, Kim C.M. Sloat, and Ronald Gallimore	2007	K-12
Hawaiian Cultural Influences in Education (HCIE): School Engagement among Hawaiian Students	Brennan Takayama and Brandon Ledward	2009	K-12
Academic Achievement Across School Types in Hawaiʻi: Outcomes for Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian students in conventional public schools, western-focused charters, and Hawaiian language and culture-based schools	Brennan Takayama	2008	K-12
Culturally Based Math Education as a Way to Improve Alaska Native Students’ Math Performance	Jerry Lipka and Barbara Adams	2004	K-12
Triarchically-Based Instruction and Assessment of Sixth-Grade Mathematics in a Yup'ik Cultural Setting in Alaska	Robert J. Sternberg, Jerry Lipka, Tina Newman, Sandra Wildfeuer, and Elena L. Grigorenko	2005	K-12
Culturally Congruent Teaching Strategies: Voices From the Field	Nanette S. Schonleber	2007	General
Constant Perimeter, Varying Area: A Case Study of Teaching and Learning Mathematics to Design a Fish Rack	Anthony Rickard	2005	K-12
An Exploratory Study of Cultural Identity and Culture-Based Educational Program for Urban American Indian Students	Kristin M. Powers	2006	K-12
Aloha Counts: Census 2000 special tabulations for Native Hawaiians	Kamehameha Schools	2003	General
A Native Hawaiian Focus on the Hawaiʻi Public School System, SY2015	Office of Hawaiian Affairs	2017	K-12
Critical Culturally Sustaining/Revitalizing Pedagogy and Indigenous Education Sovereignty	Teresa L. McCarty and Tiffany S. Lee	2014	General
The Influences of Indigenous Heritage Language Education on Students and Families in a Hawaiian Language Immersion Program	Rebecca J. I. Luning and Lois A. Yamauchi	2010	General
Hawaiian Cultural Influences in Education (HCIE): Culture-Based Education among Hawai‘i Teachers	Brandon Ledward, Brennan Takayama, and Kristin Elia	2009	General
Hawaiian Cultural Influences in Education (HCIE): Community Attachment and Giveback among Hawaiian Students	Brandon Ledward and Brennan Takayama	2009	K-12
Hawaiian Cultural Influences in Education (HCIE): Cultural Knowledge and Practice among Hawaiian Students	Brandon Ledward and Brennan Takayama	2009	K-12
Hawaiian Cultural Influences in Education (HCIE): 'Ohana and Community Integration in Culture-Based Education	Brandon Ledward, Brennan Takayama, and Walter Kahumoku, III	2008	General
Ho‘opilina Kumu: Culture-Based Education among Hawai‘i Teachers	Brandon Ledward, Brennan Takayama, and Kristin Elia	2009	General
Ke Aʻo Hawaiʻi (Critical Elements for Hawaiian Learning): Perceptions of Successful Hawaiian Educators	Alice J. Kawakami and K. Kanani Aton	2001	General
The Development of an Inventory of Exemplary Hawaiian Leadership Behaviors	Guy Kaulukukui and Daniel Nahoʻopiʻi	2008	General
Ka Huaka‘i: 2005 Native Hawaiian Educational Assessment	Shawn M. Kanaʻiaupuni, Nolan Malone, and Koren Ishibashi	2005	General
Hoʻopilina: The call for cultural relevance in education	Shawn M. Kanaʻiaupuni and Brandon Ledward	2013	General
Culture-Based Education and Its Relationship to Student Outcomes	Shawn M. Kanaʻiaupuni, Brandon Ledward, and ʻUmi Jensen	2013	K-12
E Lauhoe mai nā wa‘a: Toward a Hawaiian indigenous education teaching framework	Shawn M. Kanaʻiaupuni and Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa	2008	General
Hawaiʻi Charter Schools: Initial Trends and Select Outcomes for Native Hawaiian Students	Shawn M. Kanaʻiaupuni and Koren Ishibashi	2005	K-12
Left Behind? The Status of Hawaiian Students in Hawaiʻi Public School	Shawn M. Kanaʻiaupuni and Koren Ishibashi	2003	K-12
He Pūkoʻa Kani ʻĀina: Mapping Student Growth in Hawaiian-Focused Charter School	Shawn M. Kanaʻiaupuni	2008	K-12
Native Hawaiian Educational Assessment Update 2009: A Supplement to Ka Huakaʻi 2005	Kamehameha Schools	2009	General
Psychometric Properties of the Hawaiian Culture Scale - Adolescent Version	Earl Hishinuma, Naleen Andrade, Ronal Johnson, John McArdle, Robin Miyamoto, Linda Nahulu George Makini, Noelle Yuen, Stephanie Nishimura, John McDermott, Jane Waldron, Kenneth Luke, and Alayne Yates	2000	K-12
A Review of the Research Literature on the Influences of Culturally Based Education on the Academic Performance of Native American Students	William Demmert Jr. and John C. Towner	2003	General
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of research literature.	William Demmert Jr.	2003	General
Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Youth: A Review of the Literature	Angelina E. Castagno and Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy	2008	K-12
Measuring Native Hawaiian Leadership Among Graduates of Native Hawaiian Charter Schools	Amelia Rachel Hokule‘a Borofsky	2010	Adulthood
Improving the Practice of Evaluation Through Indigenous Values and Methods: Decolonizing Evaluation Practice-Returning the Gaze from Hawaiʻi to Aotearoa	Alice J. Kawakami, Kanani Aton, Fiona Cram, Morris K. Lai, and Laurie Porima	2007	General

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