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AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2015

A nation rising: Hawaiian movements for life, land and sovereignty. Goodyear-Ka‘opua, Noelani, Hu... more A nation rising: Hawaiian movements for life, land and sovereignty. Goodyear-Ka‘opua, Noelani, Hussey, Ikaika, & Wright, Erin Kahunawaika’ala (Eds.). 2014. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 399 pp. ISBN: 978- 0- 8223- 5695- 0.

The objective of this dissertation was to determine the perceived needs of teachers of atrisk stu... more The objective of this dissertation was to determine the perceived needs of teachers of atrisk students in regard to strategy-based professional development and supports for teachers to perform better within the classroom. Of secondary interest within this dissertation was whether differences exist between the perceived needs of teachers of at-risk students and the perceived needs of teachers of non-at-risk students. This was accomplished through a quantitative survey and data analysis that examined the perceived needs of teachers. Participants completed a survey in which they ranked their interest in specific strategy-based professional development and additional supports. The data was then analyzed using frequency statistics to determine the level of interest in the specific strategies and supports. A Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was also performed to determine if differences existed in the perceived needs of teachers of at-risk students and teachers of non-at-risk students. The study concluded that teachers of at-risk students had specific interests in participating in strategy-based professional development as well as interest in each of the potential supports that were included in the survey. The strategy-based professional developments that were shown to have high interest (2/3 or 66% of the teacher showing an interest greater than neutral were decrease in class behavior issues, increasing student engagement, differentiation of learning, student motivation, working with student with mental health and personal issues, academic problems, working with special needs students, student critical thinking, varying grade level readiness, and behavior problems. The supports that were shown to have high interest (two-thirds or 66% of the teacher showing an interest greater than neutral were additional guidance counselors, social workers, positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), school psychologists, behavior specialists, inhome visits from school based teams, increased online educational offerings for students,

New Zealand Journal of History, 2018

This article examines a collection of domestic photographs that are at at odds with dominant sett... more This article examines a collection of domestic photographs that are at at odds with dominant settler narratives about indigenous peoples of Oceania and, more specifically, indigenous women. The albums of Wehi Corbett Greig constitute a hidden history that reveals a group of Oceanic performers participating in modernity. Wehi's albums also challenge the reification of dominant narratives in official archives from which these photographic collections and others like them are absent.

The Third Space: Ambiguity in the Art of Graham Fletcher, 2018

Graham Fletcher first exhibited The Eternals in 2007. Comprised of eight paintings and a low, st... more Graham Fletcher first exhibited The Eternals in 2007. Comprised of eight paintings
and a low, stepped plywood plinth crowded with objects of various heights and
media, The Eternals, like its name suggests is a prescient touchstone for the multiple
discourses which the group of works engage with.

Pacific Affairs, Jun 2015

A review of The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands (2013) by Christo... more A review of The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands (2013) by Christopher Wright. Review first published in Pacific Affairs, Vol 88, No. 2 (June 2015)

Book Reviews by Andrea E Low

Schachter, Judith: The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation: From Territorial Subject to American Ci... more Schachter, Judith: The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation: From Territorial Subject to American Citizen. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. 226 pp., bib., index. US$95.00 (hardback).

Pacific Affairs, 2016

A NATION RISING: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty. Narrating Native Histories. ... more A NATION RISING: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty. Narrating Native Histories. Editors, Noelani Goodyear- Ka‘ōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. xvi, 399 pp. (B&W photos.) US$27.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-5695-0.

Thesis Chapters by Andrea E Low

Sound Travels constructs a biographical narrative of musician, musical director, showman and entr... more Sound Travels constructs a biographical narrative of musician, musical director, showman and entrepreneur Ernest Kaleihoku Kaai (b. Honolulu 1881 – d. Florida 1962). It takes into account the extent of his musical practice and the scale of his touring in the Asia Pacific region at a time when colonialism was the defining cultural and political force. The narrative, while it looks at the context of his upbringing, broadly concerns a period between 1911 when he first visited Australasia to 1937 when he performed his final season in Singapore before returning briefly to Hawaiʻi and then settling in Florida. The relational and situational possibilities of cosmopolitanism will be used as a means for interpreting Kaai’s travels, engagements and intercultural encounters and his ability and apparent ease in traversing distinct social, cultural and political realms in a time period when imperial power dominated and racialised indigenous subjects. Cosmopolitanism also provides a framework for the discussion of the particularities of Kaai’s relationship to multiple discourses of identity, agency and representation and how those elements are reflected in his own syncretic cultural practice. Integral to this is a discussion of the “constant de-territorialisation of music-makers” (Slobin 1992: 6) and the role of music in facilitating spaces of transcultural exchange and mobility. Ernest Kaai and his Hawaiian Troubadours performed Kaai’s long running stage show A Night in Honolulu at the intersection of empire and entertainment in the early part of the twentieth century. Their travels through Australasia, India, the Dutch East Indies, Shanghai and Japan relied, for the most part, on imperial networks maintained by European and British powers. Kaai also participated in a nascent Pacific entertainment circuit1 that accompanied American imperialism in the Pacific where global cultural flows saw culture industries enabled, in tandem with technological, commercial and colonial developments, increasing access to emerging and existing markets for colonial entrepreneurs. This thesis locates Kaai at the forefront of performers who toured the South Pacific and Asia, opening the way for other Hawaiian musicians and popularising and localising Hawaiian music along the way. Kaai’s story constitutes a hidden history that has remained on the margins of popular music history because colonial historiographies have prevailed and overwritten non- European musical accounts. Kaai’s story and the collateral stories of musicians that travelled with him reveal understandings of Hawaiian music, the mobility of Hawaiian and other indigenous musicians in the early twentieth century, the cosmopolitan milieus in which they operated and the extent of their influence as musical stylists.

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2015

A nation rising: Hawaiian movements for life, land and sovereignty. Goodyear-Ka‘opua, Noelani, Hu... more A nation rising: Hawaiian movements for life, land and sovereignty. Goodyear-Ka‘opua, Noelani, Hussey, Ikaika, & Wright, Erin Kahunawaika’ala (Eds.). 2014. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 399 pp. ISBN: 978- 0- 8223- 5695- 0.

The objective of this dissertation was to determine the perceived needs of teachers of atrisk stu... more The objective of this dissertation was to determine the perceived needs of teachers of atrisk students in regard to strategy-based professional development and supports for teachers to perform better within the classroom. Of secondary interest within this dissertation was whether differences exist between the perceived needs of teachers of at-risk students and the perceived needs of teachers of non-at-risk students. This was accomplished through a quantitative survey and data analysis that examined the perceived needs of teachers. Participants completed a survey in which they ranked their interest in specific strategy-based professional development and additional supports. The data was then analyzed using frequency statistics to determine the level of interest in the specific strategies and supports. A Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was also performed to determine if differences existed in the perceived needs of teachers of at-risk students and teachers of non-at-risk students. The study concluded that teachers of at-risk students had specific interests in participating in strategy-based professional development as well as interest in each of the potential supports that were included in the survey. The strategy-based professional developments that were shown to have high interest (2/3 or 66% of the teacher showing an interest greater than neutral were decrease in class behavior issues, increasing student engagement, differentiation of learning, student motivation, working with student with mental health and personal issues, academic problems, working with special needs students, student critical thinking, varying grade level readiness, and behavior problems. The supports that were shown to have high interest (two-thirds or 66% of the teacher showing an interest greater than neutral were additional guidance counselors, social workers, positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), school psychologists, behavior specialists, inhome visits from school based teams, increased online educational offerings for students,

New Zealand Journal of History, 2018

This article examines a collection of domestic photographs that are at at odds with dominant sett... more This article examines a collection of domestic photographs that are at at odds with dominant settler narratives about indigenous peoples of Oceania and, more specifically, indigenous women. The albums of Wehi Corbett Greig constitute a hidden history that reveals a group of Oceanic performers participating in modernity. Wehi's albums also challenge the reification of dominant narratives in official archives from which these photographic collections and others like them are absent.

The Third Space: Ambiguity in the Art of Graham Fletcher, 2018

Graham Fletcher first exhibited The Eternals in 2007. Comprised of eight paintings and a low, st... more Graham Fletcher first exhibited The Eternals in 2007. Comprised of eight paintings
and a low, stepped plywood plinth crowded with objects of various heights and
media, The Eternals, like its name suggests is a prescient touchstone for the multiple
discourses which the group of works engage with.

Pacific Affairs, Jun 2015

A review of The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands (2013) by Christo... more A review of The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands (2013) by Christopher Wright. Review first published in Pacific Affairs, Vol 88, No. 2 (June 2015)

Schachter, Judith: The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation: From Territorial Subject to American Ci... more Schachter, Judith: The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation: From Territorial Subject to American Citizen. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. 226 pp., bib., index. US$95.00 (hardback).

Pacific Affairs, 2016

A NATION RISING: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty. Narrating Native Histories. ... more A NATION RISING: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty. Narrating Native Histories. Editors, Noelani Goodyear- Ka‘ōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. xvi, 399 pp. (B&W photos.) US$27.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-5695-0.

Sound Travels constructs a biographical narrative of musician, musical director, showman and entr... more Sound Travels constructs a biographical narrative of musician, musical director, showman and entrepreneur Ernest Kaleihoku Kaai (b. Honolulu 1881 – d. Florida 1962). It takes into account the extent of his musical practice and the scale of his touring in the Asia Pacific region at a time when colonialism was the defining cultural and political force. The narrative, while it looks at the context of his upbringing, broadly concerns a period between 1911 when he first visited Australasia to 1937 when he performed his final season in Singapore before returning briefly to Hawaiʻi and then settling in Florida. The relational and situational possibilities of cosmopolitanism will be used as a means for interpreting Kaai’s travels, engagements and intercultural encounters and his ability and apparent ease in traversing distinct social, cultural and political realms in a time period when imperial power dominated and racialised indigenous subjects. Cosmopolitanism also provides a framework for the discussion of the particularities of Kaai’s relationship to multiple discourses of identity, agency and representation and how those elements are reflected in his own syncretic cultural practice. Integral to this is a discussion of the “constant de-territorialisation of music-makers” (Slobin 1992: 6) and the role of music in facilitating spaces of transcultural exchange and mobility. Ernest Kaai and his Hawaiian Troubadours performed Kaai’s long running stage show A Night in Honolulu at the intersection of empire and entertainment in the early part of the twentieth century. Their travels through Australasia, India, the Dutch East Indies, Shanghai and Japan relied, for the most part, on imperial networks maintained by European and British powers. Kaai also participated in a nascent Pacific entertainment circuit1 that accompanied American imperialism in the Pacific where global cultural flows saw culture industries enabled, in tandem with technological, commercial and colonial developments, increasing access to emerging and existing markets for colonial entrepreneurs. This thesis locates Kaai at the forefront of performers who toured the South Pacific and Asia, opening the way for other Hawaiian musicians and popularising and localising Hawaiian music along the way. Kaai’s story constitutes a hidden history that has remained on the margins of popular music history because colonial historiographies have prevailed and overwritten non- European musical accounts. Kaai’s story and the collateral stories of musicians that travelled with him reveal understandings of Hawaiian music, the mobility of Hawaiian and other indigenous musicians in the early twentieth century, the cosmopolitan milieus in which they operated and the extent of their influence as musical stylists.