Eileen H. Tamura
Eileen H. Tamura é professora de história da educação no Departamento de Fundações Educacionais da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade do Havaí – Manoa.
Atualizado em fevereiro de 2011
Stories from This Author
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 10 of 10
14 de Abril de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
Read part 9 >>Value Messages and the Power of Informal EducationThe foregoing reveals a continuity of values from youth through adulthood. In Kurihara’s case, he was receptive to certain values that were nurtured during his schooldays and young adulthood, values that were played out dramatically in his later adulthood. In some ways his behavior as a dissident during World War II may be seen as a radical change: from model student and young adult, to “trouble-maker” in Manzanar. Beneath the …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 9 of 10
7 de Abril de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
Read part 8 >>In Manzanar, outside the schoolhouse walls, another educational process was occurring, this one among adults, meaningful and relevant to the situation in which they found themselves. In the barrack-apartments, in the mess halls, in conversations under the evening sky, in arguments among those of opposing views, and in meetings large and small, this education was unstructured and informal. The learners were themselves the teachers, exchanging thoughts, attempting to make sense of their situation, and debating their best …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 8 of 10
31 de Março de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
>> Read part 7Six months after it was transferred to the WRA, Manzanar experienced a revolt that ended in the death of two innocent young men and shook the confidence of the administration and inmates alike. At 8 PM on 5 December 1942, six masked men entered the apartment of a Nisei, Fred Tayama, and assaulted him with clubs. Tayama was widely despised as an aggressive opportunist. In the decade before the war, his chain of restaurants was known for …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 7 of 10
24 de Março de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
>> Read part 6Informal Education: Making Meaning of Incarceration Even before war broke out between the United States and Japan, the FBI and army and navy intelligence had been suspicious of the Nikkei, particularly those living on the U.S. west coast and in Hawai‘i. Since 1939, the agencies had been keeping lists primarily of suspected Issei (Japanese immigrants) but also of some Nisei—their children, who were American citizens. Soon after the Pearl Harbor attack, the FBI arrested those they labeled …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 6 of 10
17 de Março de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
>> Read part 5During the day, Kurihara and his fellow soldiers were occupied with bivouac and artillery practice, trench digging and mock trench warfare, bayonet drills, hiking, and marching. In their spare time they participated in team sports, took classes, and enjoyed movies and other forms of recreation. Through the War Camp Community Service, Kurihara enjoyed the hospitality of the families of Homer Knight, a physician in the nearby town of Charlotte, and William Green, president of an advertising company …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 5 of 10
10 de Março de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
>> Read part 4Nonformal Education: Instilling PatriotismWhile Kurihara believed that he was getting an education of high quality at St. Ignatius School, he disliked having rocks thrown at him, being spat at, and kicked, and he had grown weary of being called “Jap.”1 In California and the West, the Japanese, like the Chinese before them, were rejected as outcasts at the same time that they were needed as laborers. Convinced that they would be better treated away from the Pacific …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 4 of 10
3 de Março de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
>> Read part 3Kurihara did very well in courses in Roman and Greek history. As David Tyack notes, history textbooks “reveal what adults thought children should learn about the past and are probably the best index of what young Americans did learn in class.” Kurihara’s first-year textbook, Evelyn Shuckburg’s A History of Rome for Beginners, is of particular interest. One of its five parts focuses on the constitutional history of Rome and the continual “struggles of the plebeians for equality” …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 3 of 10
24 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
>> Read part 2 The small community of Japanese Catholics in San Francisco helped Kurihara adjust to life in his new surroundings and pointed him to two Catholic institutions of higher learning—Santa Clara and St. Ignatius. Kurihara first visited Santa Clara University, the Jesuit flagship educational institution in the West. Dissatisfied with the reception that he received there, Kurihara turned to St. Ignatius for his education. Because he lacked a high school diploma, he entered the high school division attached …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 2 of 10
17 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
>> Rear part 1Formal Education: Catholic SchoolingKurihara was born in 1895 on the island of Kaua‘i, in what is now the state of Hawai‘i. His parents were among the 180,000 Japanese who journeyed to the islands from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, most of them having been recruited to work on the islands’ sugarcane plantations. (About half of the Japanese recruits eventually settled in Hawai‘i, while the other half either returned to their homeland or moved to the continental …
Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education - Part 1 of 10
10 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Eileen H. Tamura
On a cool, crisp winter afternoon in a California desert, at the foot of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a crowd of more than two thousand people gathered. Some were curious; more were angry. Before all of them, standing on an oil tank with a microphone and loudspeaker, forty-seven-year-old Joseph Y. Kurihara shouted angry words of defiance. Referring to the generally despised Fred Tayama who was assaulted the night before, Kurihara bellowed, “Why permit that sneak to …
