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Direct linkKeith Wayne Trahan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Schools serve both to connect and separate people within society. Therefore, the landscape of school reform presents an opportunity to explicate the opposing forces of connectedness and competition that are entrenched in twenty-first century society. It can serve as a laboratory in which to study foundational social issues. This study is an…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Social Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Alienation
Download full textPorter, Maureen K. – 1996
This dissertation examines how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they targeted for reform. Set against the backdrop of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), this ethnographic study describes the challenges of effectively coupling top-down state mandates with bottom-up advocacy and…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Porter, Maureen K. – 1996
This dissertation, which won the Dissertation of the Year Award, examines how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform. Set against the backdrop of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), this ethnographic study describes the challenges of effectively coupling top-down…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Peer reviewedPorter, Maureen K. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
A year-long ethnographic investigation examined how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform while resisting state priorities and policies mandated in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Contrasts KERA objectives with cultural themes prominent in this poor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Yukon Native Brotherhood, Whitehorse. – 1972
Since it was felt that the Canadian educational system was not serving the needs of Yukon Indian children, 14 items were forwarded by Resolution to the Brotherhood at the First Yukon Indian Conference held January 10-14, 1972. Nearly all the recommendations were dependent upon the provision of an education consultant who would act as a liaison…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indians, Canada Natives, Change Strategies
Howard, Roy E. – 1985
Proceedings of a Navajo Bilingual Education Conference held April 26 and 27, 1985, are summarized in this report which focuses on the implementation of Navajo language and cultural education at the Dzlith Na O Dith Hle Community School (DCS). The paper begins by stating that the conference was intended to assist educators in understanding and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers
