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Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge and Education: An Introduction; Universally Accepted Knowledge versus Particular Knowledge; Interrelations Between Knowledge and Culture; Culture and Ethnicity as a Power-Sensitive Field; Goals, Structure, and Contents of This Volume; Ethnic Minorities and Schooling; Academic Debates About Indigenous, Traditional, Native, and Local Knowledge; Knowledge, Culture, and Action: Case Studies on Indigenous and Local Knowledge; Conclusion; References
Chapter 2: The School System as an Arena of Ethnic ConflictsNation-Building, Schooling, and Ethnic Conflicts; The Educational System as a Sounding Board of Societal Problems and Conflicts in Multiethnic States; Methodological Problems of Minority Research; Educational Achievement and Attainment as a Measure of the Collective Social Status of Ethnic Minorities; Measures Used to Suppress, Assimilate, Disadvantage, or Emancipate Minority Children in the School System ; Compulsory Ignorance; Isolation of Minority Children in Distant Boarding Schools; Language of Instruction
The Impact of Teachers on the Development of Minority Cultures Location and Size of Primary Schools; Responses of Ethnic Minorities to Measures of Forced Assimilation; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States; The Development of Public Schools in the United States; The South as a Special Case; Consequences of the Civil War; Philanthropic Foundations and Southern Schools; Segregated Schools as Anchors of the Black Community; The Integration Era, 1954-1997; References
Chapter 4: Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education: Ethnic Groups in the United States ReconsideredThe Ethnic Quandary; Obama and a Black Awakening?; Geographical Reflections of Educational Attainment; Public Schools: The "Great Equalizer"?; Traditions of Ethnic Undereducation; References; Chapter 5: Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness? Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico; Educational Attainment of the Hispanic Population
Educational Inequalities and the Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness of Students, Teachers, and Educational InstitutionsA Perceived Sociocultural Gap Between the University and Hispanic Students; The Role of Teaching Staff from Outside New Mexico; Tracing Back the History of Institutionalized Education in New Mexico; Conclusions and Perspectives; References; Chapter 6: Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts; Theory and Method; Minority Youth Narratives and Relevant Research Findings
Chapter 2: The School System as an Arena of Ethnic ConflictsNation-Building, Schooling, and Ethnic Conflicts; The Educational System as a Sounding Board of Societal Problems and Conflicts in Multiethnic States; Methodological Problems of Minority Research; Educational Achievement and Attainment as a Measure of the Collective Social Status of Ethnic Minorities; Measures Used to Suppress, Assimilate, Disadvantage, or Emancipate Minority Children in the School System ; Compulsory Ignorance; Isolation of Minority Children in Distant Boarding Schools; Language of Instruction
The Impact of Teachers on the Development of Minority Cultures Location and Size of Primary Schools; Responses of Ethnic Minorities to Measures of Forced Assimilation; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States; The Development of Public Schools in the United States; The South as a Special Case; Consequences of the Civil War; Philanthropic Foundations and Southern Schools; Segregated Schools as Anchors of the Black Community; The Integration Era, 1954-1997; References
Chapter 4: Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education: Ethnic Groups in the United States ReconsideredThe Ethnic Quandary; Obama and a Black Awakening?; Geographical Reflections of Educational Attainment; Public Schools: The "Great Equalizer"?; Traditions of Ethnic Undereducation; References; Chapter 5: Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness? Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico; Educational Attainment of the Hispanic Population
Educational Inequalities and the Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness of Students, Teachers, and Educational InstitutionsA Perceived Sociocultural Gap Between the University and Hispanic Students; The Role of Teaching Staff from Outside New Mexico; Tracing Back the History of Institutionalized Education in New Mexico; Conclusions and Perspectives; References; Chapter 6: Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts; Theory and Method; Minority Youth Narratives and Relevant Research Findings