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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED144870 AUTHOR: Hung, Marianne Andrews
TITLE: The Plantation System in the Ethnic Consciousness of
Hawaii (A Rationale for the Study of the Plantation in
Values Education) (And) A Day in the Life of Ah Sing Chong
(And) A Worker's Daily Round.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 44 p.; The Plantation System in the Ethnic
Consciousness of Hawaii is a paper presented at World
Educators' Conference (Honolulu, Hawaii, July 14, 1976);
Pages 6-10 of A Worker's Daily Round have been removed due
to poor reproducibility; They are not included in the
pagination
ABSTRACT: The paper suggests that by studying the Hawaiian
plantation system, seventh graders can gain understanding
of personal values and ethnic heritage. The current racial
and cultural diversity in Hawaii is a result of mass
immigration initiated in 1876 by the needs of the sugar and
pineapple industries. Over 400,000 field workers from
China, Japan, the Portuguese Azores, Korea, Spain, Puerto
Rico, and the Philippines were brought to the plantations,
lived in segregated quarters at the direction of plantation
owners, and managed to unite and strike against the
companies in 1946. A sample of seven study units for
seventh grade social studies classes is contained in the
paper. Based on a short story about the daily life of a
young, male Chinese field worker, the units involve
students in constructing his family's monthly budget and a
savings goal; writing letters to his parents in China; and
analyzing plantation work songs for clues about workers'
lives, attitudes, and aspirations.
(AV)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Pluralism; Ethnic-Studies;
Industry-; Learning-Activities; Life-Style; Secondary
Education; Social-History
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Background; *Ethnic-Groups;
*Immigrants-; *Laborers-; *Social-Studies; *Units-of-Study
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