| Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes Contributor(s): Jennings, Michael L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759100683 ISBN-13: 9780759100688 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $136.62 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: Through an in-depth study of Alaskan indigenous communities, Jennings explores the relationship between land and education. He reveals how Euro-American institutions attempt to redefine indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to make them conform to those in the dominant society. The author proposes educational agendas that are components of native sovereignty, with their distinctive spiritual, intellectual, and material relationships to land. This book is valuable for educational policymakers, and instructors in education, anthropology and Native American studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 378.198 |
| LCCN: 2003022100 |
| Series: Contemporary Native American Communities |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Alaska |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through an in-depth study of Alaska and comparative material from other indigenous communities around the world, this book explores the relationship between land and education. While the colonial function of education is just beginning to be acknowledged, Jennings highlights, at international, national, and local levels, the extent to which Euro-American institutions continue in the contemporary period to define indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to conform to those embodied in the dominant society. He advances indigenous articulations of educational agendas as components of native sovereignty and distinctive spiritual, intellectual, and material relationships to land. This book will be of value to educational policymakers, those teaching multicultural and comparative education, and anthropologists and Native American studies instructors. |