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American Indian Education
Author(s): Matthew L. M. Fletcher (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: August 1, 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415957346
- ISBN-13: 9780415957342
Book Description
America Indian culture and traditions have survived an unusual amount of oppressive federal and state educational policies intended to assimilate Indian people and destroy their cultures and languages. Yet, Indian culture, traditions, and people often continue to be treated as objects in the classroom and in the curriculum. Using a critical race theory framework and a unique “counternarrative” methodology, American Indian Education explores a host of modern educational issues facing American Indian peoples―from the impact of Indian sports mascots on students and communities, to the uses and abuses of law that often never reach a courtroom, and the intergenerational impacts of American Indian education policy on Indian children today. By interweaving empirical research with accessible composite narratives, Matthew Fletcher breaches the gap between solid educational policy and the on-the-ground reality of Indian students, highlighting the challenges faced by American Indian students and paving the way for an honest discussion about solutions.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Fletcher is a gifted writer whose narrative moves briskly and engages the reader. . . This inaugural book in The Critical Educator series gives voice, the counternarrative if you will, of a population who rarely has an audience. Often ignored or subsumed by other oppressed groups or people of color, the voice of American Indians is rarely given top billing.”―Review of Higher Education
Beverly Klug, Professor, Idaho State University
I feel that there is a great deal of need for this type of manuscript for reasons listed above. The proposal and sample writing indicate to me that the author has thought about the best way to present the material and has begun the conceptualization of the final product in a way that would produce the most desired results. . . I would recommend this book for publication. I believe it has a place within the book/textbook realm for areas as stated above, and a special niche as a counternarrative. Too many times, students and others read only from their own preset views of the world. This book would allow readers to move beyond their preconceptions to vicariously experience education and policy-making from a totally different perspective, one rarely considered by the majority in the fields of education and related sciences.
John Tippeconnic, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
I recommend this book for publication. Yes, I would consider it for my Indian education courses. Most likely, it would be one of several books and readings I would use. It appears that it will be a good book to raise real issues and have meaningful discussions concerning Indian education today.
