Alaskan Eskimo education; a film analysis of cultural confrontation in the schools.

Survey using film and tape of teachers and students in a wide range of schools in Alaska; from schools in isolated Alaskan villages attended by only Eskimo to those in Anchorage where Eskimo, Indian and Aleut are only 7% of the student body.

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Main Author: Collier, John, 1913-1992.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1973]
Series:Case studies in education and culture.
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520 |a Survey using film and tape of teachers and students in a wide range of schools in Alaska; from schools in isolated Alaskan villages attended by only Eskimo to those in Anchorage where Eskimo, Indian and Aleut are only 7% of the student body. 
505 0 |a 1. Perspectives. -- The challenge of Eskimo education -- Flight through time and space -- 2. Eskimos and white men on the Kuskowim. -- Eskimos and the Russian fur traders -- The coming of the Moravians -- Moravian involvement in the life of the Eskimos -- Shifting economic currents -- Missionary foundation of white education of the Eskimos -- Eskimo society today and the pattern of change -- 3. Methodology of filming and analysis. -- Why use film? -- What we are looking for -- Technical considerations -- Reading the educational evidence on film -- 4. Observations on the field experience. -- The photographer as participant observer -- Isolation and survival culture -- Relating to the Arctic -- Eskimo children -- Schools and villages -- The tundra city of Bethel -- Anchorage, Alaska's big city -- 5. The classrooms on film. -- Tuluksak, an isolated BIA school -- Kwethluk, a progressive village -- The Alaska state school in Bethel -- The public schools of Anchorage -- 6. Evaluations. -- What we have seen -- Goals for Eskimo education -- Into the shared future of education. 
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