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Explaining School Failure, Producing School Success: Two Cases
Author(s) -
Vogt Lynn A.,
Jordan Cathie,
Tharp Roland G.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1987.18.4.04x0019s
Subject(s) - navajo , sociology , academic achievement , school system , psychology , pedagogy , philosophy , linguistics
Which explanation of the school performance of minority children is most useful and appropriate depends on why one is asking the question. The authors discuss two efforts to produce school success in place of school failure, based on the assumption that specific cultural differences underlie school failure and that producing particular cultural compatibilities in the classroom was a key to school success. MINORITY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, NAVAJO, NATIVE HAWAIIANS, EDUCATIONAL CHANGES, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES