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Resetting a Heartbeat: Cultural Transmission and Holistic Learning through Alaska Native Dance
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David E. K. Smith – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2025
I examine the educational properties of Iñupiaq songs and dances showing how they convey critical cultural knowledge, practical skills, and teach the value system of the Iñupiaq people. The practice of Alaska Native dance, a fundamental pedagogical strategy, was limited for 100 years by oppressive colonial forces. Framed in revitalization efforts,…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Alaska Natives, Singing, Dance
"It's Like the Root of a Tree That I Grew Up From….": Parents' Linguistic Identity Shaping Family Language Policy in Isolated Circumstances
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Ellis, Elizabeth Margaret; Sims, Margaret – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
A key factor that has been found to be critical in shaping family language policy is parents' linguistic identities, or "parents' personal experiences with bilingualism, biculturalism or second language learning" (King, Kendall A. & Lyn Fogle. 2006. Bilingual parenting as good parenting: Parents' perspectives on family language…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Parent Attitudes, Family Environment, Language Usage