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Peer reviewedCohen, Herbert G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1985
Investigated spatial thinking abilities of sixth- and tenth-grade students from two locales--a school on the Navajo reservation and schools in Mesa, Arizona. Overall findings support the contention that there were no substantial time delays or advances in development of selected spatial abilities of Navajo students compared to parallel non-Indian…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences, Higher Education
Cohen, Herbert G. – 1984
Efforts are underway to determine if there are any unique ways to Navajo thinking and thus to the way they might learn. Studies have shown a consistent lag in achievement levels for Native Americans, especially after seventh grade. At least three possible explanations for this phenomenon are viable: (1) They are deficient in the needed skills to…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary School Science, Intermediate Grades, Perceptual Development
Jacobi, Carolyn – 1985
Project DISC (Developing Indian Software Curriculum) was initiated in the Rapid City (South Dakota) school district to improve Native American children's reading and language arts ability and to provide them with microcomputer skills. During the summer of 1982, introductory computer activities were planned, a computer specialist was hired, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Winchell, Dick G. – 1982
Humanistic geography is similar to ethnography in that both are concerned with describing actions and events in terms of their meaning to those experiencing them; humanistic geography is particularly concerned with understanding subjective social space: space as perceived by members of particular human groups. A humanistic geography case study,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Basketball, Case Studies, Community Relations
Peer reviewedDavies, Wade; Iverson, Peter – OAH Magazine of History, 1995
Maintains that most attempts to depict American Indians contain at least two fatal flaws: (1) they portray the 19th century as the best period for Native American culture; and (2) they show Indians only in conjunction with non-Indian aggressions. Provides an overview of efforts by Indians to develop multitribal cultural activities. (CFR)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, Ethnic Groups
Download full textStuhr, Patricia L. – 1986
To investigate allegations by Indian artists that their ethnic values/traditions are being omitted from art curricula in their Wisconsin community schools, the study conducted ethnographic observations and interviews in a reservation elementary public school, a public elementary and high school located just outside the reservation, and a…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Art Education
Barnett, Don C.; Dyer, Aldrich J. – 1983
The volume on University of Saskatchewan graduate theses related to Canadian native peoples (Indian, Inuit, Metis) contains a brief introduction, followed by abstracts of 62 thesis projects (1912-1982), and a final section of statistics, charts, summaries, and discussions related to the abstracted research. Each research abstract consists of three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Administrator Attitudes, American Indian Education
