REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDED READINGS

The references below offer a sample of writing on various educational practices and strategies. The primary references are the FSM Language Policyand the FSM Vernacular Language Arts Student Learning Outcomes. These two documents form the foundation to which this Resource Guide is aligned and which it is designed to support and strengthen. Users are encouraged to seek additional references for use in their classrooms and communities and to explore the many materials available in the online Resource Library, where relevant resources are organized under the "Educator Support" category.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The Danger of a Single Story. TEDGlobal, July 2009. TED Talk, video.
https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

Federated States of Micronesia Department of Education. FSM Language Policy. National Department of Education (NDOE), 2023.
https://www.national.doe.fm/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FSM-language-Policy.pdf

Federated States of Micronesia Department of Education. Vernacular Language Arts Student Learning Outcomes, Grades ECE–12. National Department of Education (NDOE), 2024.
https://www.national.doe.fm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Vernacular-Language-Arts-Student-Learning-Outcomes.pdf

Gacho, Francesca. Expository Writing. Center for Writing & Rhetoric, Claremont Graduate University, November 2021.
https://my.cgu.edu/writing-rhetoric/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2021/11/CGU-CWR-Expository-Writing.pdf

Goodman, Michael. "Systems Thinking as a Language." The Systems Thinker, vol. 2, no. 3, April 1991.
https://thesystemsthinker.com/systems-thinking-as-a-language/

Hawaiʻi State Department of Education. Nā Hopena Aʻo Statements: HĀ – BREATH. Honolulu, HI: Hawaiʻi State DOE, 2015.
https://hawaiipublicschools.org/DOE%20Forms/NaHopenaAoE3.pdf

Hezel, F.X. (2013). Making Sense of Micronesia: The logic of Pacific Island culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Koh, M. W. (2012). Discovering learning, discovering self: The effects of an interdisciplinary, standards-based school garden curriculum on elementary students in Hawai’i. Dissertation. UMI 3512433. ProQuest LLC.

Linnekin, J., and Poyer, L. (Eds). (1990) Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Morrison, J., Geraghty, P., and Crowl, L. (Eds). (1994). Science of Pacific Island Peoples Volume IV: Education, Language, Patterns and Policy. Fiji: University of the South Pacific.

Payne, P. G., and Wattchow, B. (2008). Slow pedagogy and placing education in post-traditional outdoor education. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2(1), 25-38.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Australian-Journal-Outdoor-Education/181685153.html

Sobel, D. (1996). Beyond ecophobia: Reclaiming the heart in nature education. Great Barrington, MA: The Orion Society.

Sobel, D. (2004). Place-based education: Connecting classrooms and communities. Great Barrington, MA: The Orion Society.

Sobel, D. (2008). Childhood and nature: Design principles for educators. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Yemini, Miri; Engel, Laura; Ben Simon, Adi (2023). Place-based education – a systematic review of literature. Educational Review, 77(2), 640–660.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131911.2023.2177260#abstract