scholarly journals Remaking, reweaving and indigenizing curriculum: Lessons from an American Samoa Head Start program

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
Allison Henward ◽  
Mene Tauaa ◽  
Ronald Turituri
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Young Children ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
The South ◽  
Head Start Program ◽  
Head Start Teachers ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
The Us ◽  
Curricular Models

Abstract In this paper, we focus on how indigenous Head Start teachers in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the US located in the South Pacific negotiated imported policy and curricular models that were not always congruent with local, indigenous approaches to educating young children. Here we place our focus on the negotiation of curriculum within these spaces and in doing so, show that through the reweaving of curriculum, western discourses and influences from the US were altered. We conclude with implications for US territories and other contested spaces across the globe.

scholarly journals South Pacific Commission

1963 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 508-509 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Marketing Efficiency ◽  
Changing Role

The fifth South Pacific Conference was held at Utulei village, near Pago Pago, American Samoa, on July 18–27, 1962, under the chairmanship of Mr. Kowles A. Ryerson, Senior Commissioner for the United States on the South Pacific Commission. Topics discussed by the standing committees and in the preliminary sessions of the Conference mainly related to economic and social development and health. Subjects included methods of training Pacific islanders in business methods and practices ways of improving the quality and marketing of agricultural produce and of developing marketing efficiency, the changing role of women in the region, the importance of organized adult eduction schemes, and ways of obtaining a reasonable balance between social advancement and economic development in the South Pacific region. Delegates also reviewed the work of the South Pacific Commission since the last Conference was held in 1959.

Accelerating Appropriate Behaviors of Children in a Head Start Program

1969 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 773-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norris G. Haring ◽  
Alice H. Hayden ◽  
Patricia A. Nolen
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Classroom Behavior ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Head Start Program ◽  
Head Start Teachers ◽  
The University ◽  
Start Program

A research and demonstration classroom was established through the cooperative efforts of the University of Washington's Experimental Education Unit and the Head Start Program of the Seattle Public Schools. The demonstration classroom enrolled children demonstrating severe social, emotional, and/or language deficits, as identified by Head Start teachers. The aggressive or acting out child was most often seen as the child needing help. Of the 25 children originally referred, 12 were enrolled for a term which ran up to 43 days. Principles of programing the arrangement of activities in language and social discrimination were followed in the classroom. Behavior modification procedures were utilized and introduced to the regular Head Start teachers. The demonstration class teaching staff worked with the Head Start teachers when the children returned to their home class and throughout a followup period.

BOMB-PRODUCED RADIOCARBON ACROSS THE SOUTH PACIFIC GYRE—A NEW RECORD FROM AMERICAN SAMOA WITH UTILITY FOR FISHERIES SCIENCE

Radiocarbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Allen H Andrews ◽  
Nancy G Prouty ◽  
Olivia M Cheriton
Keyword(s):  
Water Movement ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
The South ◽  
Elemental Ratios ◽  
Ocean Climate ◽  
Fisheries Science ◽  
Seasonal Signals ◽  
South Pacific Gyre

ABSTRACT Coral skeletal structures can provide a robust record of nuclear bomb produced 14C with valuable insight into air-sea exchange processes and water movement with applications to fisheries science. To expand these records in the South Pacific, a coral core from Tutuila Island, American Samoa was dated with density band counting covering a 59-yr period (1953–2012). Seasonal signals in elemental ratios (Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca) and stable carbon (δ13C) values across the coral core corroborated the well-defined annual band structure and highlighted an ocean climate shift from the 1997–1998 El Niño. The American Samoa coral 14C measurements were consistent with other regional records but included some notable differences across the South Pacific Gyre (SPG) at Fiji, Rarotonga, and Easter Island that can be attributed to decadal ocean climate cycles, surface residence times and proximity to the South Equatorial Current. An analysis of the post-peak 14C decline associated with each coral record indicated 14C levels are beginning to merge for the SPG. This observation, coupled with otolith measurements from American Samoa, reinforces the perspective that bomb 14C dating can be performed on fishes and other marine organisms of the region using the post-peak 14C decline to properly inform fisheries management in the South Pacific.

A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Speech of African American Preschoolers

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken M. Bleile ◽  
Hillary Wallach
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Preschool Teachers ◽  
Head Start Program ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Head Start Teachers ◽  
Speech Patterns ◽  
Children's Speech ◽  
Start Program

In this study we attempted to investigate aspects of the sociolinguistic environment of African American preschoolers. Specifically, preschool teachers were asked to identify African American preschoolers who "have trouble speaking." Subsequently, speech-language pathologists analyzed samples of the children’s speech to isolate the speech patterns that may have corresponded to the teacher’s judgments. Subjects included 27 children who were enrolled in an inner city Head Start program. Head Start teachers belonging to the same race and community as the children acted as judges. The analysis yielded a number of speech patterns that distinguished the children judged to have trouble speaking from children judged to have no difficulties in speaking.

Hematozoa of forest birds in American Samoa - evidence for a diverse, indigenous parasite fauna from the South Pacific

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carter T. Atkinson ◽  
Ruth C. Utzurrum ◽  
Joshua O. Seamon ◽  
Amy F. Savage ◽  
Dennis A. Lapointe
Keyword(s):  
Bird Species ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Parasite Fauna ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Natural Occurrence ◽  
The South ◽  
Blood Sucking ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After

Introduced avian diseases pose a significant threat to forest birds on isolated island archipelagos, especially where most passerines are endemic and many groups of blood-sucking arthropods are either absent or only recently introduced. We conducted a blood parasite survey of forest birds from the main islands of American Samoa to obtain baseline information about the identity, distribution and prevalence of hematozoan parasites in this island group. We examined Giemsa-stained blood smears from 857 individual birds representing 20 species on Tutuila, Ofu, Olosega, and Ta'u islands. Four hematozoan parasites were identified ? Plasmodium circumflexum (1%, 12/857), Trypanosoma avium (4%,32/857), microfilaria (9%, 76/857), and an Atoxoplasma sp. {<1%, 21857). Infections were found in seven indigenous bird species from the archipelago. Overall prevalence of infection varied significantly among bird species, individual islands, and between Tutuila and the more isolated Manu'a group of islands. Infections with Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, and filarial worms occurred throughout the archipelago, including islands without introduced birds. There was a statistically significant difference in the overall prevalence of infection before and after Hurricane Olaf in February 2005, suggesting that catastrophic hurricanes may influence the dynamics of parasite infections. Given the central location of American Samoa in the South Pacific, it is likely that avian malaria and other hematozoan parasites are indigenous and widespread at least as far as the central South Pacific. Their natural occurrence may provide some immunological protection to indigenous birds in the event that other closely related parasites are accidentally introduced to the region.

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