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Peer reviewedBurns, Allan F. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
The article explores the cultural context of a new bilingual education program in a small Southwestern town through the use of ethnographic research. The ethnographic perspective focuses on how a bilingual program can be seen as operating in the three fields of individual classrooms, school administration, and community. (Author/NQA)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Community Attitudes
Peer reviewedDalla, Rochelle L.; Gamble, Wendy C. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
A study examined attitudes towards teenage motherhood among 25 Navajo reservation residents, including 8 teenage mothers, their mothers, and 4 teenage fathers. Findings indicate that teenage parenting was discouraged despite the matrilineal nature of Navajo society, men were frequently absent from family life, single maternity was preferable to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Cohabitation, Community Attitudes
Doucette, Donald S. – 1982
A study was undertaken to define the missions of Arizona's community colleges in specific operational terms and to assess the support provided for these missions by the various constituencies of the community colleges. A survey instrument, consisting of 60 activity statements, was developed and administered to 4,000 individuals including all state…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, College Role, Community Attitudes
Download full textRichardson, Richard C.; And Others – 1982
A study was conducted in 1981 by the State Board of Directors for Arizona Community Colleges to define the missions of the colleges in specific operational terms and to assess the support for these missions by the colleges' constituencies. Specifically, the study sought to determine the services, clientele, and purposes of specific college…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, College Role, Community Attitudes
Armenta, Richard R.; And Others – 1982
Institutional effectiveness can be defined as the extent to which internal priorities coincide with the priorities of the external groups that provide funding and support for the institution. If a lack of congruence exists between these priorities, a college administrator has the options of attempting to change the values of the external groups or…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, College Planning, College Role
Carter, Thomas P. – 1979
There is no inherent conflict between bilingual education and desegregation; only lack of creativity and lack of commitment deter implementation of bilingual programs in racially balanced schools. A review of literature related to the Brown v. Board of Education and Lau v. Nichols decisions revealed that bilingual education and school…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Bilingual Education, Community Attitudes, Court Litigation
Burns, Allan F. – 1979
The planned Experimental Schools (ES) project changed drastically before it was implemented in Willcox, Arizona, a diverse, multicultural community open to new ideas and outside innovations. As planned by a core of interested principals, teachers, and staff, with help from federal personnel, the project originally called for changes (in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Anglo Americans, Bilingual Education, Community Attitudes
