A wise man once told me how to look at life and learning, “be humble, don’t forget where you came from, be calm & collected, and most important remember you only know a little bit; take a dot on a piece of paper and that is what you know, with this your mind will be open with ability to learn more
Three issues:
What is the relationship between a student’s knowledge of, and experience with their tribal language & culture and veducational outcomes? arious
What educational outcomes are associated with courses on tribal languages and cultures?
What educational outcomes are associated with tribal languages and cultures as mediums of instruction?
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Brian -- Thanks for this sharing. I don't always comment but I always enjoy and learn from your posts. I have heard the same story from a tribal elder (don't remember who but it was in Wisconsin) who refered to his own cultural knowledge as a dot on a page compared to all there is to know and learn.
ReplyDeleteYour research questions about educational outcomes for tribal language and culture are and have been important to me. I go between working diligently to align cultural and language outcomes to curriculum standards to saying Why should we have to do this -- our cultural and language knowledge is important in an of itself. Current Title VII rules will only provide Indian education funds if you are addressing the No Child Left Behind tested areas of reading, math and science. Thus, many programs are forced to demonstrate how the learning of the language and culture supports reading and mathemetics. Clearly to the funding agencies the reading and math is most important, the cultural knowledge is only a by product. It is a very offensive demonstration of white privilege.
Good advice, and deep questions. Thank you too Aanakwadookwe for the wonderful comments! I wonder what others think?
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