Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup｡k Eskimo Examples (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805828214)

This book speaks directly to issues of equity and school transformation, and shows how one indigenous minority teachers' group engaged in a process of transforming schooling in their community. Documented in one small locale far-removed from mainstream America, the personal narratives by Yup? Eskimo teachers address the very heart of school reform. The teachers' struggles portray the first in a series of steps through which a group of Yup? teachers and university colleagues began a slow process of reconciling cultural differences and conflict between the culture of the school and the culture of the community.

The story told in this book goes well beyond documenting individual narratives, by providing examples and insights for others who are involved in creating culturally responsive education that fundamentally changes the role and relationship of teachers and community to schooling.


Author: Jerry Lipka, With Gerald V. Mohatt, Esther Ilutsik
ISBN-10: 0805828214
ISBN-13: 9780805828214
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1998
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.07h x 5.96w x 0.59d