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ERIC Number: EJ514018
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Yaqui Voices: Public Schooling Experiences of Urban American Indian Students.
Sonnleitner, Theresa Mague
Bilingual Research Journal, v19 n2 p317-36 Spr 1995
Interviews with 10 Yaqui adults educated in urban Tucson schools focused on attitudes toward formal education, struggles to maintain ethnic identity in a mainstream educational environment, and Yaqui-defined factors related to school success and failure of current Yaqui students. Major themes included hidden curriculum of school, family support for education, and academic and life success. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Culture Conflict, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Hidden Curriculum, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology), Interviews, Personal Narratives, Student Experience, Student School Relationship, Success
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Yaqui (Tribe)
Note: Second place winner, 1994 NABE Outstanding Dissertation.