Native Alaskan Dropouts in Western Alaska: Systemic Failure in Native Alaskan Schools

Autor/inn/en	Freed, Craig D.; Samson, Mary
Titel	Native Alaskan Dropouts in Western Alaska: Systemic Failure in Native Alaskan Schools
Quelle	In: Journal of American Indian Education, 43 (2004) 2, S.33-45 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8731
Schlagwörter	Dropouts; High School Students; Alaska Natives; Educational Quality; Culturally Relevant Education; Dropout Research; Dropout Attitudes; Dropout Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Inuit; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität
Abstract	The number of Native Alaska secondary students choosing not to complete high school is of great concern to educators and Native communities. In this study, schools in small communities throughout western Alaska were observed while teachers and dropouts were interviewed concerning their perceptions of the education process. It became very clear that there was something fundamentally wrong with the systems of education in western Alaska. Teachers and administrators frequently leave after a very short time. Students leave the school systems in large numbers and communities are not happy with the education their young people receive. In some cases, the school systems do not need an incremental change approach to education--they need to examine an entirely new paradigm of schooling. (Author).
Anmerkungen	Center for Indian Education, Arizona State University, College of Education, P.O. Box 871311, Tempe, AZ 95287-1311. Tel: 480-965-6292.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10