Terry Huffman

Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education

Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory. By including readings that each feature a theoretical perspective, Huffman provides a comparison of each perspective's basic premise, fundamental assumptions regarding American Indian education, implications, and associated criticisms. Bringing together treatments on a variety of theories into one work, this book integrates current scholarship and discussions for researchers, students, and professionals involved in American Indian education.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Native American Communities
• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780759119918
• ISBN-10: 0759119910
• Artikelnr.: 30519828

Autorenporträt

Terry Huffman is professor of education at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Part 2 Chapter 1. American Indian Education Scholarship
Part 3 Chapter 2. Cultural Discontinuity Theory Chapter 4 Reading 1.
Teachers' Cultural Knowledge and Understanding of American Indian Students
and Their Families Part 5 Chapter 3. Structural Inequality Theory Chapter 6
Reading 2. Constructing Failure and Maintaining Cultural Identity: Navajo
and Ute School Leavers Part 7 Chapter 4. Interactionalist Theory Chapter 8
Reading 3. Ethnicity and the Concept of Social Integration in Tinto's Model
of Institutional Departure Part 9 Chapter 5. Transculturation Theory
Chapter 10 Reading 4. Transculturation Theory as an Explanation for College
Persistence among Culturally Traditional American Indian Students Part 11
Chapter 6. Continuing the Tradition Chapter 12 References