{"id":23319,"date":"2014-03-13T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T23:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=23319"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:20:44","slug":"civic-education-summit-to-be-held-at-the-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/13\/civic-education-summit-to-be-held-at-the-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Education Summit to be held at the Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_2203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2203\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gnrc.statecapitol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gnrc.statecapitol.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gnrc.statecapitol-260x134.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> State Capitol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> high school legislative interns and nearly 100 students from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hssc.k12.hi.us\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> State Student Council<\/a> will gather for a daylong Civic Education Summit on Wednesday, March 19, at the State Capitol. The students will explore legislative bills from the current session using a unique style of dialogue and inquiry developed by the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/p4chawaii.org\/\">Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The High School Internship Program, co-sponsored by the Uehiro Academy, Department of Education and the Legislature, blends online and face-to-face civic curriculum with hands-on practical experiences in the legislative process. Students who participate in the program are paired with a legislator to observe, engage in and analyze public policy-making.<\/p>\n<p>The summit will utilize the <a href=\"http:\/\/p4chawaii.org\/who-we-are\/\"><abbr>p4c<\/abbr> (Philosophy for Children)<\/a> inquiry methods developed at the university&#8212;students will generate philosophical questions about the bills, listen and dialogue with their peers, gain multiple perspectives on each bill and work within small groups to explore possible answers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The summit represents the innovative and exiting new work being done with civics education in the state,&rdquo; said Uehiro Academy&#8217;s <strong>Amber Makaiau<\/strong>, legislative internship program advisor.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This experience demonstrated to me the vital role of the citizen, and the duty and right to involve oneself in democracy, &rdquo; said Carson Turner, a former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edline.net\/pages\/Mililani_High_School\">Mililani High School<\/a> legislative intern.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>p4c<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> approach to education supports students as they work to integrate their experiences at the Legislature with foundational knowledge of our representative democracy.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Uehiro Academy, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6328\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa news release<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students explore legislative bills using style of engagement developed by <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-23319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23319"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120017,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions\/120017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}