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Isherwood, Geoffrey B. – Education Canada, 1997
Effective strategies for assisting Canadian Native communities to develop school boards included encouraging an unhurried adaptive learning process, providing guidance to achieve consensus, and allowing for an incubation period. Impediments to development included community members' avoidance of leadership roles, cross-cultural misunderstandings,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Boards of Education, Canada Natives, Change Strategies
Download full textGlascock, Catherine H. – 1998
One of the results of rural school district consolidation has been the potential for schisms that develop among the divergent populations with distinct traditions, culture, and customs. This paper presents research on an Appalachian school district that remains in cultural turmoil after 25 years of consolidation. The population of the three…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations
