Meeting The Challenges Of Educational Change For Indian People

Originally published in 1992. This book advocates and demonstrates the benefits of an anthropological approach that recognizes the centrality of culture in the educational process. This approach encompasses knowledge and understanding of other cultures’ patterns of interaction, values, institutions, metaphors and symbols as well as cross-cultural communication skills. Ethnographic studies of multi-ethnic classrooms and schools in their community context are presented in this excellent volume with a view to informing practice and policy concerning the education of language minority students and teachers, and anyone with an interest in foreign language education and bilingual education.

Contains references to a wide range of research, policy and program materials relating to native involvement with the criminal justice system in the United States, Canada and Greenland. Also, listing for comparative materials from Australia and Scandinavia. Related areas include health and welfare, drug and alcohol use, jurisdictional issues and education.