(1981). Title IV-A/Johnson O'Malley Indian Education Program. Final Evaluation Report, 1980-81. Research Services Report 33-07-81/82-003. During 1980-81, over 500 students from 43 single tribes and 63 combinations of tribes were identified and served by the Indian Education Program in the Phoenix Union High School District in Arizona. Services provided were: remedial assistance in basic skills; Indian Youth Advisors serving as para-counselors, referral sources, and school/community liaisons; field trips to Indian and non-Indian cultural events; and selected student attendance at Project "Close-Up" in Washington, D.C. A total of 36 objectives were related to program goals of: providing supplemental education programs and opportunities for Indian students district-wide; planning, developing, and implementing home/school liaison services emphasizing preventive maintenance para-counselors; planning, developing, and implementing a complete Indian studies supplemental curriculum; providing opportunities for cross-cultural experiences and communication; providing awareness of career and post-secondary alternatives…
(1979). Bilingual, Bicultural, and Bidialectal Studies Related to Reading and Communication Skills: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in \Dissertation Abstracts International,\ July through December 1979 (Vol. 40 Nos. 1 through 6). This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. Among the topics covered in the 31 titles are the following: the oral English syntax of bilingual Indian children in Manitoba, Canada; linguistic style shifting in black English; oral language assessment by sentence repetition; environmental influences on patterns of communication in a black community; second language acquisition among Hispanic children in a bilingual program; language dominance and bilingual education; reading and dialect; dialect speaking children's use of contextual and graphic information in learning to read; oral English proficiency of Mexican-American migrant students; the acquisition of four black English morphological rules by black preschool children; Afro-American culture/cognition relations; techniques for teaching English to non-English speaking elementary school children; black American children's signing games; expressed reading… [PDF]
(1979). The Federal Mandate for Bilingual Education: Some Implications for Parent and Community Participation. Despite the rhetoric as to its importance, this analysis concludes that there is no federal interest in promoting meaningful, substantive parent-community involvement in bilingual education. The absence of policy, data, theory, specifically worded governing rules and regulations, established models of involvement, training programs, or technical assistance to parent-community councils all support this position. An overview of the original Bilingual Education Act of 1968, dealing specifically with the ambiguity of the legislation, the influences of the War on Poverty and Civil Rights Movement on the concept of equal educational opportunity and bilingual education, the implications of the transition vs. maintenance controversy, and the effect of key court decisions favoring bilingual education as an effective remedy for limited-English-speaking children provide background for understanding the federal position. In addition to the objective factors that comprise a federal position and…
(1978). Ethnic Studies in Pennsylvania. To provide information to educators and curriculum developers on strengths, weaknesses, and needs of ethnic studies programs in Pennsylvania, the report offers an overview of the nature and extent of ethnic studies programs operated by Pennsylvania's postsecondary institutions, public school systems, and nonpublic schools. Information is based on data gathered in a survey of treatment by Pennsylvania's schools of racial, religious, and ethnic groups in courses, curricula, or programs. Data were analyzed from the perspective of democratic pluralism and were based upon the 294 Pennsylvania schools which reported having ethnic studies. The book is presented in five chapters. Chapter I introduces the study. Chapters II, III, and IV offer data for postsecondary schools, public schools (K-12) and nonpublic schools (K-12). The final chapter offers conclusions including that ethnic studies is a relatively new enterprise within the educational system and is increasing in importance in…
(1976). Studies in Bilingualism: Methods for Teaching Spanish-S. This course guide for a teacher education program takes a modular approach to the training of teachers for Spanish-S programs in bilingual elementary schools. Each of the four modules presents a number of tasks for the student to accomplish, and provides a list of resources to assist the student. The modules cover the following topics: (1) language acquisition theories (with emphasis on linguistic interference in second language learning), (2) audio-lingual methodology, (3) developing native language (i.e., Spanish) skills, and (4) measurement of linguistic competence. (JB)…
(2000). A Two-Way Bilingual Program: Promise, Practice, and Precautions. In spite of political pressure, bilingualism is emerging as a strategy for improving the academic achievement of all students. Two-way bilingual or dual-language programs integrate language-minority and language-majority students for instruction in two languages. Site-based decision making has enabled schools in cities that border with Mexico to implement two-way bilingual programs in which minority and majority students can become bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural. Complex instruction for the binational context requires that teachers combine a profound knowledge of subject matter with a wide repertoire of teaching strategies, states of the art knowledge about learning theory, cognition, pedagogy, curriculum, technology, and assessment. The education of language minority students is dependent on the degree to which these children have access to instruction that is challenging yet comprehensible. This report focuses on one effort to implement comprehensive, two-way bilingual… [PDF]
(2003). Confronting Our Discomfort: Clearing the Way for Anti-Bias in Early Childhood. Despite having a genuine concern about racism and oppression, many early childhood teachers encounter significant feelings of discomfort as they try to implement antibias values in their classrooms. Based on the view that it is not possible to authentically teach children about acceptance without engaging in reflection upon one's own values and experiences, this book is primarily intended to help early childhood teachers learn how to examine what stands in their own way as they try to implement antibias values and practices. The book's focus is on teachers and teacher educators discomfort as they become aware of their own biases, and uses the author's self-reflection to illustrate the value of working through personal issues to strengthen one's work. Following the introductory chapter discussing teachers responsibilities and opportunities for consciousness raising, Chapter 2 discusses the nature of bias, patriarchy, and white privilege. Chapter 3 explores ways to confront the…
(1995). Understanding the School Community: A Field-Based Experience in Teacher Education. Teaching Education, v7 n1 p85-93 Win-Spr. Canadian preservice teachers were sent to volunteer in an inner-city Native American elementary school in order to gain some understanding of other cultures and thus examine their own attitudes toward race and culture. The program helped students understand the role of communication in communities and in teaching. (SM)…
(1982). Initiatives in Technical and Further Education. Numbers 3 and 4. These two issues contain abstracts of 127 and 118 documents, respectively, related to the field of technical and further education that are available through the Australian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Clearinghouse system. These types of materials are included: research reports/technical reports, evaluation studies, curriculum materials of an innovative nature (syllabus documents; student materials, including textbooks; teachers' guides; audiovisual materials; materials for TAFE teacher education; tests), questionnaires, feasibility studies, catalogs of instructional materials, and bibliographies. Each document entry provides this information: TAFE document accession number; state of origin of document; state clearinghouse accession number; author(s); title; publisher, date of publication, and pagination; format; availability (source); price; descriptors; identifiers; and abstract. Subject and author indexes are appended. Representative topics in number 3 are: access to…
(1984). Improving Student Achievement in Small Schools. Proceedings of the Annual Alaska Small Schools Conference (4th, Anchorage, Alaska, December 3-5, 1984). Key points of presentations are captured in this report of a conference which addressed issues of concern to educators in Alaska's small schools and provided an opportunity for educators to share classroom approaches that work for them. A total of 77 presentations are briefly summarized. Contents are organized under the following headings: (1) effective teaching and leadership strategies; (2) curriculum topics; (3) educational technology; (4) bilingual/bicultural education; (5) vocational education; and (6) miscellaneous topics. Subjects include improving student achievement, communicating with parents and community, staffing and scheduling in the small high school, qualities of effective small school teachers, curriculum development techniques in small schools, computer resources, instructional television programming, native culture and language instruction, first language assessment tools, computer assisted career planning activities, child abuse in small communities, and… [PDF]
(1979). Eskimo School on the Andreafsky: A Study of Effective Bicultural Education. Praeger Studies in Ethnographic Perspectives on American Education. Written as part of a series of ethnographic studies, this book is a case study of a Catholic boarding high school for Alaskan Eskimos from remote villages undergoing rapid change. Six chapters appraise the bicultural educational principles employed at St. Mary's: (1) a profile of the students as effective bicultural people; (2) the relationship between students and staff; (3) educational aims and methods used at St. Mary's; (4) values and ideals of the students; (5) student selection policies; and (6) the model used at the school for bilingual and bicultural education. The study concludes that: St. Mary's is highly effective in cross-cultural education and produces graduates with skills and communication style needed for access to the opportunities of majority culture; its graduates succeed in college much more frequently than comparable Eskimo students, but learning skills which enable them to function well in the majority culture does not cut them off from the culture of their…
(1978). Mexican Americans in School: Implications for the Counselor-Educator. The opportunities and role of the counselor in education are expanding, partially due to the increasing numbers of Mexican American students and their demands for equal education. While many researchers have traced the problem of poor education for Mexican American children to their cultural and family background, both teachers and counselors have contributed to the situation by setting lower expectations for Mexican American students and by using rigid \tracking\ systems which tend to limit student achievement. One much-heralded approach to the problem is bilingual/bicultural education. Another approach is using counselors, preferably bilingual, at all educational levels and expanding the counselor role to include parent orientation, community liaison, and student placement, as well as helping the student with problems. In particular, the counselor can assist with the growing numbers of elementary aged minority students who exhibit high anxiety and low self-concept, and the…
(1998). Life in Schools. An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education. This book describes one individual's reinvention as an educator, from a liberal humanist to an advocate of critical pedogogy. It examines relationships between schooling, the wider social relations that inform it, and historically constructed needs and competencies that students bring to schools, focusing on the social conditions of disaffected students living in public housing units under oppressive circumstances and addressing the needs of inner-city teachers. It uses the concepts of critical pedagogy to analyze the failure of inner-city schools and suggest a vision for changing schooling. The story begins with the publication of a journal documenting the individual's teaching experiences at an inner-city elementary school. Part 1, "Broken Dreams, False Promises, and the Decline of Public Schooling," documents the nature of crises in schooling and society. Part 2, "Cries from the Corridor: Teaching in the Suburban Ghetto," presents teachers' and students'…
(1995). From Metaphoric Landscapes to Social Reform: A Case for Holistic Curricula. Arts Education Policy Review, v96 n4 p26-31 Mar-Apr. Discusses two related dilemmas: (1) the tension between the Western view of historical progress and the realities of modern society; and (2) the tension between old and new approaches to teaching and learning about the arts. Argues that the end result of implementing the Goals 2000 program might diminish the teaching of the arts as discrete subjects. (CFR)…
(1998). Increasing Teacher Diversity by Tapping the Paraprofessional Pool. Theory into Practice, v37 n2 p121-30 Spr. To increase the representation of people of color in teaching, the potential candidate pool must expand beyond those who are likely to attend college. Paraprofessional school personnel, who typically are from minority groups, constitute a ready source for increasing the supply of diverse teachers. Five strategies that contribute to the success of career ladder programs for paraprofessionals are discussed. (SM)…