Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education [Paperback]

Karen Gayton Swisher (Editor), John Tippeconnic (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1880785218 | ISBN-13: 978-1880785218 | Publication Date: April 1, 1999

What is "Indian education" today? What will it look like in the future? The editors and 12 other Native scholars respond with 13 chapters that help readers explore two important themes: (1) education for tribal self-determination and (2) the need to turn away from discredited deficit theories of education to an approach that builds on the strengths of Native languages and culture and the basic resilience of indigenous peoples. Writing about past and present foundations of Indian education are K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Muskogee/Creek), John W. Tippeconnic III (Comanche), and Linda Sue Warner (Comanche). Curriculum and practice issues are explored by Gregory A. Cajete (Santa Clara Pueblo), Venida Chenault (Prairie Band Potawatomi), Sandra J. Fox (Oglala Lakota), Linda Skinner (Choctaw), Deborah Wetsit (Assiniboine), Tarajean Yazzie (Navajo), and Michael Yellow Bird (Sahnish/Hidatsa). Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw), D. Michael Pavel (Skokomish), and Wayne J. Stein (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) write about the higher education experience. Swisher and Tippeconnic provide a summary chapter discussing research and other steps needed to advance education for American Indian and Alaska Native students.

Product Details

• Paperback: 331 pages
• Publisher: Eric Clearinghouse on Rural (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880785218
• ISBN-13: 978-1880785218
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,119,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insight into Indian education, June 8, 2000

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This review is from: Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education (Paperback)

*Next Steps* is a collection of essays on different, important aspects of the state of education for Native students across the country today. The breadth of materials present in the essays and the overall insight they offer is impressive. Although it does focus more on current practices of Indian education than future goals and ideas as the title implies, it is an important book. It is also very nice to see that all essay authors are Native themselves. Anyone interested in Indian education or teaching Native students should by all means read this book.