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A place to be Navajo : Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling /

An ethnographic account of a revolutionary indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. It was called Dine Bi'olta, The People's School, in recognition of its status as the first American Indian community-controlled school.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCarty, T. L.
Otros Autores: Bia, Fred
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
Colección:Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Framing the story
  • People, place, and ethnographic texts
  • "How it was"
  • "We were going to school being taught only by Anglos"
  • A portrait of change
  • Origin stories
  • Community and classroom
  • The problems and politics of program evaluation
  • The two faces of self-determination
  • Transitions and turmoil
  • "If we want to be powerful, we have to exercise our power" : indigenous teachers as change agents
  • Protest
  • What if the children forget the Navajo language?"
  • Epilogue : "The hopes and dreams of rough rock."