A place to be Navajo : Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling / Teresa L. McCarty ; with photographs by Fred Bia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarty, T. L.

Contributor:

Bia, Fred.

Taylor & Francis.

Series:

Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education

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:

1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

System Details:

text file

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.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781410602503

1410602508

Publisher Number:

99970403936

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.