First Nations Perspectives on Transforming the Status of Culture and Language in Schooling

Autor/in	Agbo, Seth A.
Titel	First Nations Perspectives on Transforming the Status of Culture and Language in Schooling
Quelle	In: Journal of American Indian Education, 43 (2004) 1, S.1-31 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8731
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Cultural Education; American Indian Education; Indigenous Populations; Culturally Relevant Education; Cultural Maintenance; Academic Achievement; Cultural Awareness; American Indian Culture + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Culture; Education; Kulturelle Bildung; Kulturelle Erziehung; Sinti und Roma; Schulleistung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität
Abstract	One of the challenges facing Aboriginal education is how to enhance Aboriginal students' achievement through culturally responsive pedagogies. The issue involved is not merely that of methods of teaching and learning but of acquiring the necessary tools for shaping and implementing a socially and culturally oriented curriculum that recognizes Aboriginal local resources in context and reinforces and maximizes their use in education to make school learning an integral component of the social and cultural context of Aboriginal children's heritage. The paper is about First Nations' perspectives, opinions and attitudes about the status of language and culture in schooling and their suggested strategies to revitalize and preserve First Nations cultures. The paper concludes that the issue involved is not merely one of cultural education of students but also of helping Euro-Canadian teachers to attain the necessary cultural tools for determining and putting into practice a socially and culturally oriented program. (Author).
Anmerkungen	Center for Indian Education, Arizona State University, College of Education, P.O. Box 871311, Tempe, AZ 95287-1311. Tel: 480-965-6292.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10