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Book SynopsisToday’s schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework of schooling are cultural ways of knowing that are place-based, holistic, experiential, and connected to oral storytelling. In the current movement toward acknowledging and understanding cultural knowledge, teacher education programs need to work in collaboration with cultural communities, honoring traditions and epistemologies and seeking to revitalize and sustain (Paris, 2012) language and culture. Such initiatives inform the big picture of educational reform and enrich mainstream university teacher education programs. This book highlights the journeys, challenges and unfolding stories of transformation that reside within university/community/school partnerships focused on cultural and linguistic revitalization through schooling.
Trade ReviewEducation researchers and practitioners describe how they are using classrooms not just to accommodate diverse cultures and languages but to preserve and revitalize cultures and languages that are under threat from a dominant culture. Considering in turn power, culture, and language, they discuss such topics as critical ancestral computing for the protection of Mother Earth, voices from the community: the past embraced, teach what you know: cultivating culturally sustainable practices in pre-service Alaska native teachers, and writing from the threads of our lives: stories from a bilingual family writing project. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction:
Cathy Coulter & Margarita Jimenez-Silva Part 1: Power Voices from the Community: Neva Mathias, I am Maangaq Chapter 1: Critical Ancestral Computing for the Protection of Mother Earth;
Cuoponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval Chapter 2: American Indian Access to Higher Education: Where are all the NDN’s?;
Jameson Lopez Chapter 3: Dual Language Programs: Language and Access;
Laura Gomez Chapter 4: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Action: Views From Inside a Secondary Social Studies Teacher’s Classroom;
Margarita Jimenez-Silva & Ruth Luevanos Part 2: Culture Voices from the Community: Lisa Unin, The Past Embraced Chapter 5: Yupiunrirngaitua/The Skirt I Refuse to Wear;
Panigkaq Agatha John-Shields Chapter 6: Preparing Culturally Sustaining/Revitalizing Educators: Lesson from Field Experiences in Alaska Native Village Schools;
Timothy E. Jester Chapter 7: Teach What You Know: Cultivating Culturally Sustaining Practices in Pre-Service Alaska Native Teachers;
Amy Vinlove Chapter 8: The Induction Seminar: Nurturing Culturally Sustaining Teaching and Learning in Rural Alaska Native Communities;
Karen Roth Chapter 9: Reflections from the Tundra: Language, Culture and Pedagogy through Community Engagement;
Cikigaq-Irasema Ortega Part 3: Language Voices from the Community: Apalaq (James) Ayuluk, Cup’iuyaraq: Being a Cup’ik Chapter 10: Writing the Threads of Our Lives: Stories from a Bilingual Family Writing Project;
Tracey T. Flores Chapter 11: Five Words: Lessons Learned in Rural Alaska;
Kathryn Ohle Chapter 12: Preparing Pre-Service Secondary Teachers in Arizona: Using Culturally Sustaining Approaches to Learn from Diverse Secondary English Learners;
Pablo Ramirez Chapter 13: Transforming Teachers’ Practice Through Professional Development: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogical Changes in Support of English Language Learners;
Anthony J. Trifiro Conclusion: A Hopeful Imperative;
Cathy Coulter & Margarita Jimenez-Silva
