Beating Alaska's Bush.

Meade, Kirk

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ERIC Number: EJ252591

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1981

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Beating Alaska's Bush.

Meade, Kirk

Community College Frontiers, v9 n3 p4-14 Spr 1981

Relates some of the challenges involved in teaching English to Yup'ik Eskimos in the rural areas around Bethel, Alaska. Focuses on problems of student attrition, uninformed attitudes of white instructors, and the operations and failings of the delivery system, which employs itinerant field concept coordinators and campus-based instructors. (AYC)

Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges, English Instruction, Eskimos, Itinerant Teachers, Non English Speaking, Nontraditional Education, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Student Attrition, Student Motivation, Two Year Colleges

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Alaska

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