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Alaska Native Education Views from Within

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ISBN-10: 1877962430

ISBN-13: 9781877962431

Edition: 2009

Authors: Ray Barnhardt, Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley

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Over the past century, the outside world has increasingly encroached on Alaska Native communities, and one of the consequences of that change has been a shift in the purpose and structure of schools in Alaska Native communities.Alaska Native Educationbrings together a variety of experts in the field of indigenous education to show the ways in which Alaska Natives have adopted and adapted outside ideas and rules regarding educationand how they have frequently found them problematic and insufficient. The authors follow their analysis with suggestions of ways forward, emphasizing the benefits of blending new and old practices that will simultaneously prepare Alaska Native students for the…    
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Publication date: 2/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future
Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future
Alaska Native Education: Alaska Natives Commission/Alaska Federation of Natives
The State of Native Education
Why Native Education?
Culture and Change for I�upiat and Yup'ik People of Alaska
I�upiat Ilitqusiat: To Save Our Land and Our People
Alaska Native Education: History and Adaptation in the New Millennium
Native Pathways to Education
Serving the Purpose of Education
Follow the Lights: Native Ways of Knowing
The Circle We Call Community
Revitalization of the Qargi
Growing Up to Be Tlingit
Honoring Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Implications for Participatory Research and Community
Alaska Native Traditional Knowledge and Ways of Knowing
Aleut/Alutiiq Region: Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
Western Society's Linear Systems and Aboriginal Cultures
Aspects of Silence: When Do Traditions Begin?
Culture, Chaos, and Complexity
Culturally Responsive Curriculum
The Indigenous Worldview of Yupiaq Culture
Their Silence About Us
Education and the Subsistence Way of Life
Alaska's Cultures: Building a Context for Stories and Traditions
Strengthening Native Languages
I Will Speak Again!
Collaboration in Education
Evolution of the Yup'ik Language
Mediating Athabascan Oral Traditions
Education for Self-Determination
The Cry of the Loon: Mysterious, Mournful, Remembering Place
Who Controls Alaska Native Education?
Decolonizing Western Alaska
Education and Cultural Self-Determination
Effects of Modernization on the Cup'ik Of Alaska
Appendices
Guidelines for Research: Alaska Federation of Natives Board of Directors
The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Education
U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples