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Download full textPractical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
A bimonthly report describes a recent work to determine the use of satellite educational television in remote and isolated rural communities, especially those inhabited by native Alaskans. It is believed that educational satellite communication has its greatest potential in Alaska because of these conditions. The report describes the scope of the…
Descriptors: Communications, Communications Satellites, Demonstration Programs, Demonstrations (Educational)
Peer reviewedUlmer, Fran – Northern Review: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Arts and Social Sciences of the North, 1998
Alaska's efforts toward sustainable development include protecting the subsistence lifestyle by involving indigenous people in stakeholder decisions about whaling and fishing quotas and offshore oil drilling; developing rural energy, water, and sewage infrastructures; using telecommunications to bring health care and education to remote areas; and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Community Control, Cultural Maintenance, Geographic Isolation
Gaffney, Michael J. – 1981
Faced with the need to build new social and economic institutions following the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Natives formed 12 regional non-profit making corporations. One of these, Northwest Arctic Inupiat (NANA), is bringing a human resources development approach to the area in an effort to develop enduring economic and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, Developing Nations
Spears, Jacqueline D.; And Others – 1990
Rural Amrica has been experiencing dramatic changes in the transition toward a socially and culturally diverse society. This study is a first effort to explore multicultural reform in rural schools. Multicultural education is the process by which the school environment is modified to accommodate cultural differences as well as to teach the role…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Characteristics, Cultural Differences
McDaniel, Robert H., Ed.; And Others – 1986
To assist state-level educational policy makers, information about the needs of rural adults and barriers to their participation in educational programs was studied in seven northwestern states. Telephone interviews gathered information from educational providers (approximately 6 in each state) and 47 rural adult learners from the region. In each…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Delivery Systems
Spain, Peter L.; And Others – 1977
Use of radio for nonformal education and development communications and the technical and economic considerations related to radio services are covered in this second volume of case studies on use of radio for education and development. Under radio and nonformal education are: an evaluation of radio schools as part of the popular promotion…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agricultural Education, Case Studies
