[Review of] Luci Tapahonso. Saanii Dahataal, The Women Are Singing: Poems and Stories

Wrapped around the cover of this volume is a painting by Emmi Whitehorse entitled, White Shell Woman Story 111. This is an implication of Tapahonso’s Navajo origins -- mythical, historical, and persona -- which are evident throughout the book. In this work, Tapahonso seems to be aiming at a mainly non-Navajo audience to teach them about Navajo experience -- historical and present-day, collective and personal

[Review of] Shelia Chamovitz. Skokie: Rights or Wrong

Skokie is an Illinois suburb in which about 7,000 Jewish survivors of the European Holocaust live. In 1978, The National Socialist Party of American [America] (NSPA) (known until 1970 as the American Nazi Party) wanted to demonstrate in Skokie, to publically speak about the NSPA\u27s ultimate purpose, which is to create an all-white [non-Jewish] America in our lifetime, via legal methods hopefully. The NSPA\u27s immediate goal in marching in Skokie was to dramatize the fact that there is no free speech for National Socialists ... a pressure move in order to force the system, the courts ... to give [the NSPA] back [their] right to free speech. Frank Colin, the NSP A leader and spokesperson, parallels NSP A public assembly with demonstrations by blacks in the heart of dixie during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Blacks were Dramatiz[ing] their cause in an area where those concepts were most opposed, Colin says, just as his group was attempting to do. In other words, the intent of both groups was to demonstrate their constitutional right to free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) picked up Colin\u27s NSPA case when Skokie went to great lengths to keep the NSPA from their community. As news of the planned march spread, community leaders began to receive telephone threats; the Nazis\u27 ultimate plan seemed already to be working

[Review of] Anna Lee Walters. Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing

Anna Lee Walters creates an interesting chronicle that is both personal and historical. As she writes of self and family, she also writes about a multitribal web of cultural beliefs and historical interactions with whites that have come to define tribal people today

[Review of] Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John

Annie John, even though set in the West Indies and about a black Caribbean girl, is a work whose universally felt experience goes beyond allowing the novel to be neatly categorized as a piece of ethnic or women\u27s writing. Born on Antigua, the island in which she sets the novel, Jamaica Kincaid catches many of the ways of being peculiar to this place. Maybe it is because Kincaid makes the setting home that we as readers find it so easy to slip into the story

[Review of] Sherman Alexie. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

A member of the Spokane tribe, Alexie writes the heart of a community that is joined through hardship, hope, land, and story. On and off the reservation, from the storytelling of Thomas Builds-the-Fire to Norma\u27s fancydancing, a drumbeat of home follows everyone

[Review of] William Bright. A Coyote Reader

An anthropological linguist specializing in the language and texts of the Karuk people of northwestern California, and editor of the bilingual collection Coyote Stories (1978), William Bright has made his latest volume of Coyoteana and Coyoterotica accessible to anyone interested in the Coyote Trickster. Bright has lived a long time with Coyote stories and in A Coyote Reader approaches his subject with care and respect . The volume includes references and an index

[Review of] Elizabeth Ammons and Annette White-Parks, eds. Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective

Opening the volume is a brief introduction by Elizabeth Ammons in which she discusses the major premise around which this book is organized -- namely, that “tricksterism” is a phenomenon in turn-of-the-century literature that, through tricks in authorship and narrative intention, disrupts the “master narrative” of the dominant racist Anglo culture. The articles concern works from a range of cultural backgrounds: Chinese American, Mexican American, Native American, European American, and African American. Each article includes endnotes and a list of works cited. The volume also offers contributors’ notes and an index

Evolution of bookkeeping as a subject in the school curriculum.

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The role of moral education in the teaching of history in secondary schools

This study examines (he role that moral education and values issues have played in (he teaching of history in this country from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. It takes as its main thesis the view that moral aims were explicitly part of the subject's rationale in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but in the decades following the Second World War these aims were to a large extent disavowed and history teaching underwent a revolution in its content, purpose and processes. In recent years the agenda of history has changed yet again and with the introduction of a national curriculum in history, once again personal, social and moral aims have been expressed as part of that subject's purpose in the curriculum. This first part of the thesis offers an overview of the teaching of moral education in. schools and examines the issues concerned and looks at definitions of the terms involved. It then looks at various theories of moral development and curricular responses to them. The second and third chapters examine the moral elements of history curricula throughout the past two hundred years and seek to identify main areas where history may with integrity be taught to further the aims of moral education. Chapter four examines the issues discussed within the framework of the National Curriculum. The fifth chapter deals with the views of academic historians on moral concerns within history and their responses to this dimension in the National Curriculum. Chapter six takes a broad survey of history textbooks and their moral assumptions and use within the classroom. It also considers some of the implications of the National Curriculum on book resources. The conclusion draws the strands of the thesis together and tries to take a common-sense stance in the 'history debate

Making an IMPACT! Advancing student-centered learning at Purdue University

The mission of Instruction Matters Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) is to redesign foundational courses using student-centered learning as a basis. The libraries’ advancement of this campus-wide change will be discussed from three perspectives—administrative, space planning, and curriculum redesign. Discussion will focus on the changing expectations for librarians, especially as instructional partners, the redesigning of library learning spaces to support instructional innovation, and elements necessary for developing a faculty learning community focused on enhancing student-centered learning