Bicultural education in the North

This book is about the cultural diversity of the peoples of the North, and how this can be maintained and enhanced in the future. Anthropologists and ethnolinguists - as well as educators and those involved in politics from Native communities in the North - inform the reader on the current state of the debate on this issue. This may give us clues and insights into both theory building and the implementation of relevant community-based educational practices. At the outset it is emphasized that indigenous needs and global responsibilities make the maintaining of cultural diversity a matter for all of us. Some authors call attention to the need to work for adequate social, political, and economic environments, so that cultural and linguistic diversities can continue to thrive in the future. But most importantly, our view is directed to the educational process itself. These themes are further elaborated in various case studies, which focus on Siberia and the North Pacific Rim but provide comparative views from other regions as well. Contents Erich Kasten Introduction Approaches Erich Kasten Handling Entnicities and/or Securing Cultural Diversities Indeigenous and Global Views on Maintaining Traditional Knowledge Jonathan David Bobaljik Visions and Realities Researcher-Activist-Indigenous Collaborations in Indigenous Language Maintenance David Koester Imagination and Play in Children's Reflections on Cultural Life Implications for Cultural Continuity and Educational Practice Northern Eurasia Ulla Aikio-Puoskari Sámi Language in Finnish Schools Paul Fryer Including Indigenous Culture and Language in Higher Education The Case of the Komi Republic Western Siberia Aleksandra Kim The Problems of Preserving the Language and Culture of Selkups Aimar Ventsel and Stephan Dudeck Do the Khanty need a Khanty Curriculum? Indigenous Concepts of School Education Paula Jääsalmi-Krüger Khanty Language and Lower School Education Native, Second or Foreihn Language? Central Sibiria Vasili Robbek Language Situation in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Zinaida Pikunova Politics, Education, and Culture A Case Study of the Preservation and Development of the Native Language of the Evenkis Alexia Bloch Ideal Proletarians and Children of Nature Evenki Reimagining Schooling in a Post-Soviet Era The Russian Far East Nikolai Vakhtin Endangered Languages in Northeast Siberia Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka Alyona Efimenko The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Exhibitions in Ethnographic Museums of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug Klavdiya Khaloimova Itelmen Language Textbooks and Programs Marina Tarasova Even Language in the Early Stages of Education The Pacific Northwest Roy D. Iutzi-Mitchell Political Economy of Eskiomo-Aleut Languages in Alaska Prospects for Conserving Cultures and Reversing Language Shift in Schools Alex Nelson Sports as a Wholistic Connector of Aboriginal Family and Community Nella Nelson First Nations Education in the Greater Victoria District, B. C. Comparative Perspectives Gordon Whittaker The Sauk Language Project Bettina Zeisler Borrowed Language The Impact of School Education and Mass Media in Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir, India)) Paulina Jaenecke School Policy for the Sorbian Minority in Upper Lusatia New Technologies Michael Dürr Multimedia Materials for Native Language Programs Joachim Otto Habeck The Existing and Potential Role of the Internet for Indigenous Communities in the Russian Federation