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Direct linkWhite, Carolyne J.; Bedonie, Clara; de Groat, Jennie; Lockard, Louise; Honani, Samantha – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
This article is about bridge building: building cultural bridges of authentic collaboration between the university and the Navajo and Hopi nations; building curricular bridges between the White, European culture and the cultural worlds these nations seek to preserve; and building bridges between languages, the language of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Partnerships in Education, Universities
Peer reviewedLockard, Louise – American Indian Quarterly, 1995
Presents an overview of the history of Navajo language literacy. Discusses efforts of missionaries to transcribe a written Navajo language, early native language instruction using the Bible and religious texts, the first Native teachers, development of Navajo dictionaries and grammar books, and memories of the school experiences of a present-day…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, Bilingual Education, Educational Experience
Goodluck, Mary Ann; Lockard, Louise; Yazzie, Darlene – 2000
This paper describes the Chinle Primary School Dual Language Project in terms of both the activities of the project and the attitudes and aspirations of its bilingual teachers. Chinle Unified School District (Arizona) enrolls over 4,000 students in 7 schools; 99 percent are American Indians, and 62 percent are considered limited English proficient…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Higher Education
Lockard, Louise – 2000
This paper documents a single year in the history of Navajo education from the perspective of the Navajo Agent Dennis Matthew Riordan. It draws on Riordan's correspondence, 1882-83, with the Secretary of the Interior, with Captain Richard Henry Pratt at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and with his brother. In December 1882, Riordan arrived…
Descriptors: Administrators, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedLockard, Louise – Journal of Navajo Education, 1996
Weaves a Navajo elementary teacher's anecdotes from her own and her father's educational experiences with archival materials to provide a historical context for Navajo literacy. Discusses early written Navajo; the role of schools and churches in the expansion of written Navajo; and the advancement of Navajo linguistics during John Collier's…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Church Role
Lockard, Louise; de Groat, Jennie; Bedonie, Clara – 2003
The Learn in Beauty Project at Northern Arizona University worked with a consortium of seven Navajo Nation school districts seeking to implement the Dine Language and Culture teaching perspective. This perspective is based on the premises that education is best when it reflects a sense of place; education should be based on the philosophy and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Beginning Teachers, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers
