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Native Pathways to Education
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Alaskan Eskimo Education:

A Film Analysis of Cultural

Confrontation in the Schools

Front Cover 

John Collier, Jr.

California State University
© 1973

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HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON, INC.
New York • Chicago • San Francisco • Atlanta
Dallas • Montreal • Toronto • London • Sydney
To John Connelly for His Enthusiasm and Faith in Education

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Perspectives
The Challenge of Eskimo Education
Flight through Time and Space

2. Eskimos and White Men on the Kuskokwim
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 for Eskimos
Eskimo Society Today and the Pattern of Change

3. Methodology of Filming and Analysis
Why Use Film?
What We Were 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 Films
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
Bibliography

 

 

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