Transforming the Culture of Schooling: Teacher Education in Southwest Alaska.

Autor/inn/en	Lipka, Jerry; Illutsik, Esther
Titel	Transforming the Culture of Schooling: Teacher Education in Southwest Alaska.
Quelle	(1999), (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Alaska Natives; Biculturalism; Culturally Relevant Education; Curriculum Development; Educational Change; Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Eskimos; Ethnomathematics; Faculty Development; Indigenous Personnel; Mathematics Instruction; Measurement; Number Systems; Teacher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inuit; Bikulturalität; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungsreform; Elementarunterricht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Messverfahren; Number system; Zahlensystem; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	This paper examines how Ciulistet, a group of Yup'ik Eskimo elders, teachers, aides, and university collaborators, has slowly begun transforming education in southwest Alaska. Specifically, this paper shows how this indigenous group has produced, interpreted, and applied ancient Yup'ik wisdom to the modern context of schooling. Formally established in 1987, Ciulistet meets three or four times a year for a week or weekend. An example describes how elders have led discussions of Yup'ik numeration, exercises in grouping and place value, and explorations of connections to other mathematical and scientific concepts of time and place. Based on the body, the Yup'ik base-20 and subbase-5 system offers at least four concrete and conceptually different ways of teaching numeration and lead to considerations of the mathematics embedded in the Yup'ik linguistic system and of cultural differences in number patterns, grouping, and addition. As in the number system, Yup'ik ways of measuring also involve the body. Ciulistet meetings provide support to teachers attempting to develop, refine, and implement Yup'ik mathematics in the elementary curriculum of their schools. Implications for teacher education are discussed, particularly in minority and ethnic linguistic communities concerned with representing themselves in the processes and products of schooling. (Contains 32 references.) (SV)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC