A Long Way From Home: Effects of Public High Schools on Village Children Away From Home.

Autor/in	Kleinfeld, Judith
Institution	Alaska Univ., Fairbanks. Inst. of Social, Economic, and Government Research.; Alaska Univ., Fairbanks. Center for Northern Educational Research.
Titel	A Long Way From Home: Effects of Public High Schools on Village Children Away From Home.
Quelle	(1973), (234 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; American Indians; Boarding Homes; Boarding Schools; Culture Conflict; Dropouts; Educational Economics; Educational Environment; Educational Research; Emotional Problems; Eskimos; Family School Relationship; High School Students; Public Schools; Rural Education; Social Environment; Social Problems; Success; Teaching Conditions; Urban Education; Alaska + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; American Indian; Indianer; Boarding school; Internat; Kulturkonflikt; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Bildungsökonomie; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Soziales Umfeld; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Erfolg; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen
Abstract	This study examined the costs and benefits of alternative high school programs for Alaskan village children. It attempted to determine what actually happens to village adolescents in different high school programs, why it happens, and what, if anything, can be done about it. Research methods studied the effects of 3 types of high school programs on 105 village freshmen who entered the programs over their freshmen and sophomore high school years. A follow-up study was also done on the 175 students who graduated from these programs from 1970-72. The programs studied were: rural boarding home (Bethel), boarding school (Beltz), and urban boarding home (Anchorage). It was found that these programs created serious social and emotional problems among village students without teaching them the skills necessary to succeed as adults. The majority of the students either dropped out of school or else transferred from school to school. The educational benefits of a large high school with a variety of courses and specialized teachers did not materialize for most village students. Policy recommendations were: (1) high school programs should be established in home villages; (2) boarding home and dormitory programs should be closed in those towns with high levels of social problems; (3) public boarding schools should be closed; (4) the urban boarding home program should remain open to those village students whose educational needs cannot be met in a village school; and (5) the State Department of Education should establish a village high school development program. (FF)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC