"Because We Do Not Know Their Way": Standardizing Practices and Peoples through Habitus, the NCLB "Highly-Qualified" Mandate, and PRAXIS I Examinations

Autor/in	Watanabe, Sundy
Titel	"Because We Do Not Know Their Way": Standardizing Practices and Peoples through Habitus, the NCLB "Highly-Qualified" Mandate, and PRAXIS I Examinations
Quelle	In: Journal of American Indian Education, 47 (2008) 1, S.118-135 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8731
Schlagwörter	Standardized Tests; Federal Legislation; Indigenous Populations; American Indians; Teacher Education; Teacher Certification; Teacher Effectiveness; Epistemology; Writing Instruction; Workshops; Test Coaching; Self Determination; Federal Indian Relationship; Career Choice; Praxis Series + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Bundesrecht; Sinti und Roma; American Indian; Indianer; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Erkenntnistheorie; Schreibunterricht; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Testverfahren; Selbstbestimmung
Abstract	Standardized testing, mandated by NCLB, can act as a barrier to prevent Indigenous students from entering teacher training programs and achieving "highly-qualified" certification upon exiting. Such regulations work against the nation-to-nation trust agreements that would place Indigenous teachers within Native school systems. Although experiencing difficulty, when these students analyze the epistemological underpinnings of standardized examinations, experience individualized writing instruction, and participate in exam preparation workshops, they can reach their immediate goals of teacher training as well as their long-term career goals of becoming educators in their home communities. Even under less than ideal circumstances, they can exercise self- and community-determination. (Author).
Anmerkungen	Center for Indian Education. Arizona State University, College of Education, P.O. Box 871311, Tempe, AZ 95287-1311. Tel: 480-965-6292; Web site: http://jaie.asu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10