Michael L. Jennings

Broschiertes Buch

Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education

One University, Two Universes

Beschreibung

Through an in-depth study of Alaskan indigenous communities, Jennings explores the relationship between land and education. He reveals how Euro-American institutions attempt to redefine indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to make them conform to those in the dominant society. The author proposes educational agendas that are components of native sovereignty, with their distinctive spiritual, intellectual, and material relationships to land. This book is valuable for educational policymakers, and instructors in education, anthropology and Native American studies.

Autor

Michael L. Jennings is professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and president of the union United Academics. He has also served as assistant professor of political science and director of Alaskan Native studies at the University of Alaska, Archorage; special assistant to the University of Alaska system-wide president; special assistant to the president of Tanana Valley Community College; deputy director of the Fairbanks Native Association; and educational field counselor for the Alaska Federation of Natives, Inc.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780759100695
• ISBN-10: 0759100691
• Artikelnr.: 22240881

Rezensionen

Alaska Native Leadership and Higher Education provides a fascinating inside account of the views of the Native leadership in the 1970s and 1980s toward the University of Alaska. This account, as Jennings himself points out, is almost entirely critical and unfavourable. Jennings endevours to show that what outsiders might view as 'contributions and successes' were in fact achieved by great political struggle in the context of 'systematic racism and cultural conflict.' Recensions