Native Americans in the School System

Family, Community, and Academic Achievement

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

AvCarol J. Ward

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Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she evaluates historical, ethnographic, and quantitative data to determine the causes of these educational failures, and places this data in an economic, political, and cultural context. She shows that the rate of failure in this community is the result of conflicting approaches to socializing youth, the struggle between 'native capital' and 'human capital' development systems. With high rates of unemployment, poverty, and school dropouts, the Northern Cheyenne reservation provides some important lessons as Native Americans pursue greater educational success. This volume will be of use to policy makers, instructors of comparative education, Native American studies, sociology and anthropology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-06-24
Mått171 x 227 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Native American Communities
Antal sidor282
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759106093

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1 Chapter 1: American Indian High School Completion: A Contradiction in Need of Explanation2 Chapter 2: Contributions of Schooling and Community Research to an Ecological Approach to the Study of School Outcomes3 Chapter 3: The Northern Cheyenne Reservation: The Setting for an Analysis of High School Completion4 Chapter 4: Case Study Approach and Descriptive Data5 Chapter 5: Evaluating Ecological Models of School Performance: The Relative Effects of Individual, Family, School and Community Influences6 Chapter 6: Evaluation of School Dropout Models7 Chapter 7: Evaluating Models of School Performance and Completion for Indian and White Students at Colstrip High School8 Chapter 8: Conclusion: Native Capital and Northern Cheyenne Dropout Rates9 References

Ward's powerful combination of quantitative and ethnographic research methods provides us with rich data sets to help illuminate the complexity of experiences and issues surrounding American Indians and school achievement. Utilizing an ecological theoretical model positions her research at a critical edge in advancing our understanding of the astonishing and disturbing trend of an increase in the dropout rate among American Indian youth. American Indians have the highest dropout rate of any ethnic orcultural group in the United States. Whereas educational statistics are showing a slight improvement in school graduate rates across groups, the statistics on American Indians students have been stubbornly resistant to change. Ward's book links school practices, community beliefs, student achievement, and labor force and economic opportunities in ways that challenge a simplistic view of Indian youth and schooling..