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ERIC Number: EJ491771
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Publication Date: 1994
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Culturally Negotiated Schooling: Toward a Yup'ik Mathematics.
Lipka, Jerry
Journal of American Indian Education, v33 n3 p14-30 Spr 1994
The Ciulistet, an Alaska Native teachers' research group, focused on the development of Yup'ik culturally based mathematics. Examines difficulties in interpreting Yup'ik knowledge to school-based mathematics, theoretical implications for indigenous education, and the process of culturally negotiating context and content of schooling. Describes the Yup'ik number system and the use of polar coordinate geometry in traditional basket weaving. (LP)
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Eskimos, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Number Systems, Teacher Associations, Teacher Researchers, Yupik
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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