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Formal Education in an American Indian Community
Murray Lionel WaxRosalie H. WaxRobert V. Dumont
其他書名
Peer Society and the Failure of Minority Education
出版Waveland Press, 1989
主題Education / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN08813344729780881334470
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LJwOAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Pioneering in its research methodology and its findings, Formal Education in an American Indian Community helped to demonstrate the potential of ethnographic studies of schools and communities and thereby to expose the deficiences of conventional test-and-measurement research. Rather than assuming that the school simply functioned as a neutral agency of instruction, the researchers recognized that it would be an intrusive arm of the government. Accordingly, they situated themselves within the local Oglala community so that they could not only observe classrooms, but talk to all the involved parties: students, parents, educators, authorities. Their research revealed the dramatic emergence of the peer society as a powerful influence not merely upon what was learned (or not learned) by the students, but upon their total existence. The psychological bias of theories of education leads educators to underestimate the prevalence and authority of peer societies, but it is their force that accounts for much of the otherwise unexplained variance in how students learn and behave in any school. --