Title: Alaskan Eskimo education; a film analysis of cultural confrontation in the schools.
Authors: Collier, John, 1913-1992.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Year: 1973
Subjects: Eskimos Education.; Eskimos Alaska.
Abstract: Survey using film and tape of teachers and students in a wide range of schools in Alaska; from schools in isolated Alaskan villages attended by only Eskimo to those in Anchorage where Eskimo, Indian and Aleut are only 7% of the student body.
Contents: 1. Perspectives. -- The challenge of Eskimo education -- Flight through time and space -- 2. Eskimos and white men on the Kuskowim. -- 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 of the Eskimos -- Eskimo society today and the pattern of change -- 3. Methodology of filming and analysis. -- Why use film? -- What we are 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 film. -- 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.