Conflicting Landscapes
Conflicting Landscapes
American Schooling/Alaska Natives
“An invaluable guide to newly arriving teachers of Native students.”
“Bates and Oleksa convincingly present the reality of cultural diversity and the challenges facing educators in Alaska and elsewhere. They discuss what has worked in interethnic communication and place-based education, but go beyond this to examine the underlying problem of lack of institutional memory and continuity in schooling, the abandonment of measures proven to demonstrate success, caused by a high turnover of teachers and administrators, with the result that we see the same mistakes and failures tragically and unnecessarily repeated year after year, generation after generation, leading to ongoing low academic achievement of most Alaska Native students, as well as family and community dysfunction.”
Clifton Bates has been involved in Alaska Native education for more than thirty years as a teacher, school district administrator, and university professor. Michael J. Oleksa has taught Alaska Native history and cross-cultural communications at Alaska Pacific University and all three main campuses of the University of Alaska system. He is the author of several books, including Another Culture/Another World.
Acknowledgements
Dedications & Special Thanks
About the Authors
Table of Contents
From the Publisher (The Kuskokwim Corporation)
Preface
Section I: As It Is and Has Been
Part One: A Personalized View of Native Schooling: The Historical, Social, and Cultural Context
Michael J. Oleksa
Part Two: A Description of the Seedbed
Clifton Bates
Section II: As It Could Be
A Different View of Culturally Responsive Schools: Considerations for Policy Makers, School Board Members, Educators, Parents and Other Interested Folk
Clifton Bates
Examples of Training Curricula
Michael J. Oleksa
In Conclusion
Appendices
References
