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A place to be Navajo : Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling / Teresa L. McCarty ; with photographs by Fred Bia.
LIBRA E99.N3 M2978 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarty, T. L.
- Series:
- Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rough Rock Demonstration School.
- Navajo Indians--Education.
- Navajo Indians.
- Navajo Indians--Ethnic identity.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
- Summary:
- This account, authorized by the Rough Rock Demo. School community, documents the history of the school-the first controlled by a locally elected, all Navajo governing board, & to teach in & through the Native lang., innovations which have made it a leade
- Contents:
- Framing the story
- People, place, and ethnographic texts
- "How it was"
- "We were going to school being taught only by Anglos"
- A portrait of change
- Origin stories
- Community and classroom
- The problems and politics of program evaluation
- The two faces of self-determination
- Transitions and turmoil
- "If we want to be powerful, we have to exercise our power" : indigenous teachers as change agents
- Protest
- What if the children forget the Navajo language?"
- Epilogue : "The hopes and dreams of Rough Rock".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0805837604
- 0805837612
- OCLC:
- 46822437
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