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Bilingual Education for All: A Benefits Model for Small Towns.
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Ngai, Phyllis Bo-yuen – Bilingual Research Journal, 2002
Suggests a curriculum for rural and small-town schools that combines bilingual education in local languages (indigenous, heritage, or immigrant languages) with global, multicultural education. Discusses benefits to students and community, and ways that the model overcomes typical rural constraints of inflexible school organization; administrative…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Benefits
Creating Cultures of Schooling: Historical and Conceptual Background of the KEEP/Rough Rock Collaboration.
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Jordan, Cathie – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Discusses the collaborative efforts of the Hawaiian Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) and the Navajo Rough Rock Community School in Arizona to develop educational practices and strategies that would help minority-language children succeed in school. Examines the modification of KEEP strategies for use with Navajo children. (16 references)…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Educational Attitudes
Toward a Community-Based Transition to a Yup'ik First Language (Immersion) Program with ESL Component.
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Hartley, Elizabeth A.; Johnson, Pam – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
In the small Alaskan village of Manokotak, the community participated in the school's shift from an "English submersion" program to Yup'ik immersion plus ESL. Discusses community involvement and participative planning, first-year goals, scheduling of instructional time in each language, staff development, materials development, cultural…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Community Involvement, Educational Change
Change from the Inside Out: A Story of Transformation in a Navajo Community School.
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Begay, Sally; And Others – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Examines the perspectives of bilingual teachers, teacher assistants, school administrators, and an outside researcher on the 10-year development of a Navajo-English bilingual/bicultural program at Rough Rock Elementary School in Arizona. The transformation in curriculum and pedagogy, as well as the social and political processes by which…
Descriptors: Administrators, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education Programs
Negotiated Change: Yup'ik Perspectives on Indigenous Schooling.
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Lipka, Jerry; Ilutsik, Esther – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Discusses the ways in which various American Indian community schools and programs have addressed the concept of language and cultural maintenance and renewal, focusing on the role of bilingual programs, classroom interactions, community involvement, and indigenous teachers. The perspectives of the Yupik Indians on indigenous education are…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Techniques, Community Involvement
Navajo Language Education: Retrospect and Prospects.
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Holm, Agnes; Holm, Wayne – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Describes the growth and development of bilingual education on the Navajo Reservation and resultant outcomes for Navajo students, educators, and communities, and demonstrates how learning is mediated by language and culture in the Navajo context, as well as the critical conditions needed to sustain genuine two-language education. (16 references)…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Educational Environment