Essays on Erasures

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Purpose - Kaomea’s first and foremost purpose through this article was to reveal how the educational system in Hawai’i and other previously colonized places, favours colonialist, indifferent, non-traditional and oppressive tendencies of schooling. - The article tries to prove the prevailing disembodiment and demotivation of the kupana (meaning ancestral, traditional, of the forefathers) by the schooling system in Hawai’i and address the reasons for such developments - The article tries to put forward the availability of ...

Introduction to cheating

Cheating is where a person or a group of persons acquire or do something in a deceitful, a dishonest, or a devious way. Here persons use incorrect and prohibited means to achieve something or results. In other words, illegal ways are used to manipulate results; here in this essay, some of the reasons that cause teachers to cheat for their students are highlighted. This is done basing on the articles District Administration and Kappan Magazine, both of them have highlighted some of the incidences involving cheating in schools. This paper contains the introductory part, which is used to introduce the issues under discussion, ...