Creating Cultures of Schooling: Historical and Conceptual Background of the Keep/Rough Rock Collaboration
1995; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/15235882.1995.10668592
ISSN1523-5890
Autores Tópico(s)Educational Practices and Challenges
ResumoAbstract Hawai'i's Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) was established in 1970 as an applied research and development effort charged with the mission of discovering, developing and disseminating ways of more effectively educating native Hawaiian children in public school settings, where, as a group, they were not faring well educationally. By 1981, KEEP had developed a set of educational practices and strategies which seemed to be effective for Hawaiian children. These practices and strategies were designed to be compatible with Hawaiian child culture. However, there was lively debate concerning to what extent they were specific to Hawaiian culture, and to what extent they constituted "just good education" and could be utilized in the same form with other populations, with similar results. To address the issues surrounding this debate, KEEP began looking for an opportunity to work with another population of children, culturally distinct from Hawaiians, but facing similar educational problems. A combination of systematic searching and serendipitous events brought together KEEP and Rough Rock Demonstration School, a community-run school on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona, and an agreement was reached to collaborate toward a combination of mutual aims and separate, but complimentary, goals. The most intensive part of that collaboration took the form of a semester's joint work at Rough Rock by three KEEP staff members and two Rough Rock faculty members. This team tried out KEEP strategies and practices in one third grade classroom, and recorded and tried to respond to what happened there. This article discusses the history of the collaboration, the practical and theoretical concerns it attempted to address, and what may have been learned about process and product in minority education from the KEEP/Rough Rock experiment.
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