ISBN: 9780982169834 - wayfinding through the storm: speaking truth to power at kamehameha schools 1993-1999 (2 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the spine and cover.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 384 pages. cover worn, bumped, Over 150 voices?young students, venerable alumni, movers and shakers, avera ge folk, novice and seasoned teachers, Native Hawaiians, kama'aina and fresh fac es from abroad?share their experiences of the 1990s Bishop Estate controversy in Wayfinding through the Storm. This is the human story of a crisis that erupte d at Kamehameha Schools in the 1990s and came close to destroying a historic edu cational community. Wayfinding through the Storm tells the story of ordinary dec ent people who looked deep inside themselves and found the moral courage to risk everything, to come together and stand up for what they believed in: to speak t ruth to power.Coming into the '90s, Bishop Estate and Kamehameha Schools were flourishing. However, within a matter of just a few years, the all-Hawaiian board of trustees came close to bringing the estate to ruin. Dubious schemes, h atched behind doors in the boardroom, erupted one after the other in public scan dals?ethical, moral, sexual, financial, political, legal, crossing the line in to indictable crime.Wayfinding through the Storm focuses on the crisis as it played out at Kamehameha Schools. Presented as an oral history, it is told b y people who lived the story, in their own words. The book is comprised of inter views with Kamehameha faculty, staff, students, alumni, parents and friends, com bined with court transcripts. The text is supplemented and augmented graphically through historic and contemporary photographs, cartoons and reproductions of do cuments.…