Voices of Native American Educators (eBook)

Integrating History, Culture, and Language to Improve Learning Outcomes for Native American Students

Sheila T. Gregory (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
266 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7193-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Voices of Native American Indian Educators: Integrating History, Culture, and Language to Improve Learning Outcomes for Native American Indian Students, edited by Sheila T. Gregory, provides vivid, comprehensive portraits, as well as scholarly quantitative and qualitative research, on the best practices that offer new and practical strategies for teachers to improve the academic performance of Native American Indian students. All of the contributors are Native American Indian educators who have exercised these strategies first-hand.

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Voices of Native American Indian Educators: Integrating History, Culture, and Language to Improve Learning Outcomes for Native American Indian Students, edited by Sheila T. Gregory, is a comprehensive resource that provides a vivid portrait of best practices for Native American students, as experienced by Native American educators. This book is based primarily on research studies, both quantitative and qualitative, that offer new, practical strategies for teachers to improve the academic performance of Native American students. All of the contributors in this book are Native American Indian educators who have experienced success in their teaching practices by using a variety of multidisciplinary approaches in their practice of teaching. In this collection, "e;culture"e; is considered to be constantly evolving and is described as something that can both be learned and unlearned. Furthermore, people who share the same culture do not always behave in the same ways. The complexity of culture, then, is a tremendous challenge for many researchers who strive to quantitatively define the characteristics of a population, rather than contextualize through culturally relevant pedagogy. Voices of Native American Indian Educators seeks to fill this enormous gap in the literature by providing both a variety of scholarly research on best practices and a generous list of references and other resources available to teachers on Native American Indian students.

Autor

Sheila T. Gregory, PhD is a professor of higher education and educational leadership at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I: The History and Status of Native American Education American Indian Education: A History of Resilience and Self-Determination, by Vincent WhippleThe Dynamics of Native American Women and their Experiences: Identifying Ideologies and Theories that Help Explain Oppression, by Sandy L. (Kewanhaptwa) DixonNavajo College Students' Perceptions of the Impact of Western Education on the Retention, by Freda B. GarnanezAdolescent Drug Use and its Impact on Schools in Indian Country, by Susan Harness, M.A., Kimberly Miller and Fred BeauvaisPart II: Culturally Relevant PedagogyAn neen dush: Harnessing Collective Wisdom to Create Culturally Relevant Science Experiences in Pre-K Classrooms, by Ann Mogush Mason, Mia Dubosarsky, Gillian Roehrig, Mary Farley, Stephan Carlson, and Barbara MurphyCollapsing the Fear of Mathematics: A Study of The Effects of Navajo Culture on Navajo Student Performance In Mathematics, by Henry FowlerGenerosity, Fortitude, Respect, Wisdom: Using Popular Culture To Teach Traditional Culture, by Carol R. RemppPart III: Teaching Models of Cultural Competence and ContextWhen Numbers Dance for Mathematics Students: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Instruction for Native Youth, by James Jon Barta, Marilyn M. Cuch, and Virginia Norris ExtonOlu'olu i ka pä ke Kaiäulu: Community and Place as a Textbook for Learning, by Kay L. Fukuda and ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui Part IV: Educational Strategies From Native American EducatorsPreparing American Indian Youth for the Transition from High School to College, by Jean E. Ness and Dennis W. OlsonClosing the Mathematics Achievement Gap of Native American Students Identified as Learning Disabled, by Judith Hankes, Stacey Skoning, Gerald Fast, Loretta Mason-Williams, John Beam, William Mickelson, and Colleen MerrillSubject IndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-7193-3 / 0739171933
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-7193-6 / 9780739171936