Project Hookui -- Impact of culturally aligned supports on Native Hawaiian high school students' college attendance: A qualitative perspective.

2017

Kelly Roberts
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This article described the goals and model of Project Hookui, and reported on the experiences and perceptions of Native Hawaiian youth who participated in a dual enrollment program (i.e., enrolled in high school and post-secondary education simultaneously). The study utilized grounded theory methodology. Focus groups, with semi-structured open-ended questions, were conducted with 103 participants over a 24-month period. The findings of the research comprised two major themes that were concerned with Native Hawaiian students educational Progress at large and addressed the issue of Relationality, including the practice of self-sufficiency in sorting through the future career options and learning ones sense of self-in-society, in particular its relational aspects.

dual enrollment, qualitative, Native Hawaiian youth, indigenous, post-secondary education access

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals Published/In Press

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers, Students

Visual Format or Large Print, Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2017.1284698

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